University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine - Scope Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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'i l 'Y 4 fv- f, ,ff'w ,f-Zi i l i! 5 ,5 '-- -- ..,, ,f f .ffl ' i L P ? , -9 Qi 15, ln L ,QL gfgiffirf'-ig. I '2 . it L3 ', Vit Y. Q74 - '- - ' -1 T 1- fled0'e through the whole ' different kinds. calculated to spread the lig it ot cnou b is 23, ,Q ,Y- . N , . . ,, fe ' 'X -: American continent, wherever inhabited. gc. 5 , . . . . - , - . . - - ' 1 I .-X short time atter the rounding of the Lollege, Di. XX71ll12l1Tl Shippefl, 215 rl 5 1 . . ., s -- . - , ' , 1 Protessor ol burgery, and Dr. Adam ,lxuhn as Professoi of Botany and Ma 3 teria Medica, were added to the faculty. Dr. Benjamin Russh was elected to veil. L the Chair of Chemistry in 1769. At this time, Dr. Charles Bond was dellver- ing Clinical lectures at the Pennsylvania Hospital, the oldest 1n Arner1ca. X .fx-fs, Three years after its founding, the Medical School graduated the follow- kj' ,, , ing men: lohn Archer, Benjamin Cowell, Samuel Duffeld, Jonathan Elmer, , .,,, L ' f M, Humphrey Fullerton, David Jackson, John Laurence, Jonathan Potts, James All il! Tilton and Nicholas XYay. This was the hrst class in Amer1ca to receive the L 1 I 4 . . . ' E, degree ot Bachelor of Medicine. l l ln 1771, four of these men having presented theses, received the degree' x'-. . . . . L' ot Doctor ot Medicine. 3 . . . , Eg The school grew rapidly and attained a prommence wh1ch made It the foremost institution of its kind in North America. Since the founding, there ' , have been numbered among its faculty the following, who are Well known in ' lx 3 the History of American Medicine: Wfistar, Carson, Barton, Physick, De- t ! wees, Horner, Hare, Gibson, George B. Wlood, Rogers, Goodell, Stille, As- , - I A 7. . . X if Q ii. , -.ng A! Q., M- -1:--' gf, i.,f,Q.i:5. W .fp V, . w,i,..,:K: 5- x-,554 1-l, :',L:N, L 'ml 'P'5- L xr .'J'f1Tf'3a+'s7,f fire ' lg iff 1 1 .. 1 51: .- . 1 it V 1 i 5 L2 ijiti:'-T,L:ff 2f Y :'ihif'f ' 75' 1 1 llftit'-f'1f? l lf - i.45iif bt ,fi at V V . L Li ' ua i I i if L. ,xi I X 2 my ii- fi -.' -' I L- 1? i '- :i .F 1 5 ' F P 2 'P - ' 1 . LAW 4.1 - f'i '4' .-Q 1 1' ll 5 - RN, 3' ' H ,es:m:?f:Ei? i:.: 1?'s:T+ H5'! LP gi .N MEDICAL HALL 9th sTREET it fr .k.,--i i . . . 5-1 i p , g l huist Pepper, H. ,C. XVood, F. G. Srmth, Leidy, Agnew, Norris and Musser, Q l j pq as well as the present incumbents of various Professorships. . ff The school has led the Medical profession and its courses have attracted Ii . 5 I - rc . . i L i f students not only through the whole Amerlcan contmentl' but from all parts C ':, N ' , - - . , 5 Hi ot the u orld. It has had connected with its faculty, in numbers of 1ts gradu- , ates, many men who have been recognlzed the world over, for their scientific ,ki I f fl achievements and discoveries. i Ch Th? 53111001 has S0116 .through many. vieissitudes and so large has been its fsses 1-11 t e past, that it frequently found itself cramped for space. The Q i', ' ixffgsis 115 H39 bggllllllllg fLY0I'agGd between thirty and fourty, and reached ,eff . I un - ' . L ,Q fo h dled an sei enty 1n.l8Q7.. Pct present the average Student body 13 . tif V ur un re and fifty, at which 1t 13 l1m1ted. f ' F , fo XX X 5 -1 ,.-1,2--.ff1,1f'f'1g'f'- ff.l2-T 'Tir-TL -VE7, ', tj'-Q' -4 l'Q-.kTQj ' 'LZ'.Xj'f TA1jiV'F1A'hiTi'vg-'r- . ,,... THA.. X N I l g ,'f -,vm-,,f - - ,A fl.-': - T ' '-v1 V l f' e, ' A NX. K- lf-ii fT'fZfSl42g.:f :sq .7351 .-ifg.,lf:f.Q i'fTm4'fjfff,, - L, c Ps 5 ,ac -5 - - -l-A ---as-ms have ..-- .. -.r.1.,.gr frv. L f . ,'-. 5-2. me N X. l22l

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l 1 I Q. I F Fl I J SX X Y A P . N. Ag?-,xxx it fl af, U Uh A From its beginning until 1802 Anatomical Hall was the home of the Medi- cal School. Lectures were also held in rooms of the American Philosophical Society in Independance Square. In l802fit moved to ninth and Chestnut Streets, the site of the present post olifice. Here it shared with the College the lbuilding which had been erected by the government as an executive mansion. A Upon demolition of this building in 1829, it received a building of its own on the same site which it occupied until 1874, when the University moved to its present location in WVest Philadelphia. The' Medical School occupied Logan Hall and the Hare Laboratory. At present several courses are given l L J , l 432 N 'fl V! ll, 'il lil lv fall fill! , f 2 -.r'fi .II fL,,,,,J . .X FJ . L I fl- -. '84-if I L ja! kffl rf? 'T-. Q fl 3228! lgl 1 1311 L Xl I fm ll '. I ,J ,J I A I . W 'Ihr lg ' in the latter building to the members of the first and second year classes. In 'F ,f ' 1904 the principal department of the Medical School moved into the present pvc : I I quarters in the new Medical Laboratories on Hamilton Walk. This strip-of ' ' land was donated to the University through the efforts of the late William Q: T' I l Pepper. Q Di kg! Q Until 1874 the school was dependent upon the old Philadelphia Alms EQ . . . . l J U4 5 3 - ,J 3 House and later the Philadelphia General Hospital for clinical work. Classes I K are still held there, but in thatyear the University of Pennsylvania Hospital ga A W . - -W flu M, - W at 34th and Spruce Streets was erected and opened. This Hospital has grown 1 1 LJ rapidlytboth in size, and scope of its work, the most recent addition being the AL o 4 '1 ' . .... ' . Fl I' ldv . Z l K William White Surgical VV1ng. A - . C ' . The Medical School at present has access to the 'clinical material in the ' 'L 2 Pennsylvania Hospital at 8th and Spruce Streets, and-fthe Phipps Institute fl.. f I if I for the study of tuberculosis at Seventh' and Lombard Streets. Q ' , l . The Wistar Institute of Anatomy, containing collections of anatomical ,I L l' specimens which are unsurpassed in the United,States, was founded nad en- t l dowed by the late General R. J. VVistar in 1892. It had as a nucleus the col- is lj! - if lection from the Wistar-Horner Museum founded in l808-. ' 'il lt In 1916 plans were formed for the amalgamation of the various medical it ' ll A schools of the City of Philadelphia. This would have included the Medical at .,,.,g, School of the University of Pennsylvania, The Jefferson Medical School, the p lf? I . lvill Medico-Chirurgical College and also the Polyclinic Hospital. 'Unforseen 'M ' ' ' r d h ' ' l l ns were not carried out but the I ff'-fvll wi 1. .. complications arose an t e origina p a 0 . I , . lf,,,., Figs -. I al Medico-Chirurgical College and the Polyclinic Hospital did merge with the Universty of Pennsylvania Medical School and a Graduate Department was F',z43g-i , . . . . . Lg ll- 'Q ' wi., founded. This 1S known as the Medico-Chirurgical Graduate School of the pd l p i vi University of Pennsylvania. This graduate department has rapidly increas- I Y ed in size and scope of work, having access to the clinical material of almost ti .-fi-arg 1 I will 5 every large hospital of the City of Philadelphia. bf . ...gl xy , ,' ,ffl 7 ix .34 1 f. I N VX -5.5 :E A X 1 H ji up N. lf lp lllx 2 1. .,.,, W f Qa... 1 swf.: -.-,... Q 'px .Q VK A f f -if gh -C713 W., xp.. x, is .7 QQ Tx ,if CQ gf, ' LA, S 14 A ' 3 J r T:g,157 'Z' I23l

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