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

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Q Bepartment iiiaisturp 3 ISTORY implies repetition, hence, parts of this article will be re- , czillpd to the minds of those who have perused the pages of books ff v-1 1 o ormer ears. A The Vieterinary Department of the University of Pennsyl- vania was established in the early months of the year 1884, by AQ Dr. Wfilliam Pepper, due to the suggestions and able assistance of Mr. joshua B. Lippincott, joseph E. Gillingham, Esq., Prof. Fairman Rogers, and a few other noted men. During the month of October, 1884, the original buildings were dedicated. Their construction was of brick and granite. A similarity in architecture and appearance will be seen in the old Medical Building, Hare Laboratory, Hospital Building and College Hall. These structures of one to two stories, and erected at a cost of 362,000.00 were situated between Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Streets, having a frontage of about 500 feet on Pine Street Cnow known as Hamilton Vlfalkj , also about 100 feet on Guardian Avenue, the site of the present New Medical Laboratory. The necessary funds for the completion of these buildings were secured prin- cipally through private contributions, with the aid of State appropriations. Prin- cipal among the benefactors were Mr. joshua Lippincott, father of J. Bertram Lippincott, present trustee of the University, who subscribed S20,000.00, and Mr. joseph Gillingham, whose gift was S'pl0,000.00. Numerous other donations and loans of from one to ten thousand dollars were made by numerous Philadel- phians. 1 The land on which these buildings were erected was donated by the City of Philadelphia to the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. The site com- prised that now occupied by the Botanical Gardens, also that of the New Med- ical Laboratory. The old plant was somewhat similar in arrangement to that of the Alfort School in Paris, where Dr. Rush Shippen Huidekoper, the first Dean, had received his degree. Far superior to anything in America at the time of erection, they were still beneath the par of a modern veterinary school and hos- pital. A partial reconstruction took place in 1891, provisions being made for administrative ofhces, Dean's office, residents' apartments, and general assembly room. The original Faculty, one of whom -is still a member of the instructing corps, was composed of Rush Shippen Huidekoper, M.D., V.S., Dean and Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and Comparative Anatomy, Dr. 'William Zuill, MD. CU. of PQ, and CV. SJ N. Y., Professor of Surgery and Obstetrics, Alexander Glass, V.S., of McGill University, Demonstrator of Pharmacy and Lecturer on Canine Practice, Robert Meade Smith, M.D., Professor of Com- parative Physiology, Horatio C. Wfood, MD., Professor of Therapeutics, E. Reichert, M.D., and Theodore G. Wformly, M.D., Professors of Chemistry, and Dr. joseph Leidy, Professor of Zoology. The nrst class was matriculated in 1884, graduating in 1887, among whom was the late Dr. Simon bl. I-larger. Frequent changes occurred in the instructing staff during the next year or two. In November of 1889, Dr. Huidekoper resigned, being succeeded in Dean- I2