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

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1911 RECORD BEJARD

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apartment Eisturp 11ISgitgiibgf1'EE?gl1LSV1!fiElf, consequently part of this article is a repe- T The 'Veterinary Department of the University of Pennsyl- vania was established in the spring of 1884 by Dr. Wfilliam Pepper, at the suggestion ot Mr. joshua B. Lippincott, joseph E. : I Gillingham, Esq., Professor Fairman Rogers and others. The original buildings, which were dedicated in October. 1884, were of brick and local granite, in their architecture and general appearance they were somewhat similar to the old Medical Building, Hare Lab- oratory, the Hospital Building and College Hall. The buildings were one to two stories in height, and were situated between Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh streets, having a frontage on Pine street Qnow Hamilton llfalkj of five hundred feet, and about one hundred feet on Guardian Avenue. They occupied the site of the new Medical Laboratories. The cost of the old buildings was about sixty-two thousand dollars, secured principally through private donations and partly by State appropriation. The principal benefactors were Mr. ,loshua Lippincott, the father of -li. Bertram Lippincott, the present Trustee of the University, who subscribed twenty thousand dollars, and Mr, joseph E. Gillingham, who gave ten thousand dollars. Numerous other Philadelphians subscribed or loaned from one to ten thousand dollars. , The old plant was in some respects similar in arrangement to that of the Alfort School in Paris, where Dr. Rush Shippen Huidekoper had taken, his vet- erinary degree shortly before the opening of the department, of which he was the first Dean. Although in advance of anything in America at the time of their erection, the buildings fell far short of what a modern veterinary school and hospital should be. The land on which the Hospital was built was donated by the City of Phila- delphia to the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. It comprised not only the site of the Botanical Garden, but also the lot at present occupied by the Medi- cal Laboratory Building. In 1891 the old building was partly reconstructed to provide for the administrative ofhces of the Department, the Dean's office, apart- ments for the Resident, and a general assembly room. The original faculty was composed of Rush Shippen Huidelcoper, M.D., VS., Dean and Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and Comparative Anatomyg Dr. lVi1liam M. Zuill, M.D. CU. of PD, and V, S. QN. YQ, Professor of Surgery and Obstetrics, Alexander Glass, VS., of McGill University, Demon- strator of Pharmacy and Lecturer on Canine Practice, Robert Meade Smith, MD., Professor of Comparative Physiology, Horatio C. llfood, MD., Professor of Therapeuticsg E. Reichert, M.D., and Theodore G. Wformly, MD., Professors of Chemistryg and Dr. joseph Leidy, Professor of Zoology. The hrst class was matriculated in the fall of 1884. Dr. Huidelcoper resigned in November, 1889, and was succeeded in the deanship by Dr. 'lohn Marshall, who held the chair until 1895. Dr. l-luidekoper. however, continued his lectures to the students until 1890. In 1891 Dr. Charles .I2