University of Cincinnati College of Medicine - Annual Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Christian R. Holmes HE drama of a man's life is written in three acLs. The curtain rises upon the background into which he is born; a second time upon his meeting its challenge; it drops as we set: him conquer it or die. Need anyone repaint the corroding walls, the dank undergrounds, the heavy air of a dying material and im- material medical Cincinnati, into which it was Christian R. Holmes! fate to be born? Or need there be reacted in the close space uf a second Hoor room, crowded by a hesitant facuity and profession. the upstanding scene of a dissentcr? I see it still. A too bright light dulling the eyes; a too large flame dulling the mind; a too large plan dulling the energies. Rising up in its midst just one resolute hgure and that seeing the vision. It is the fate of small men to see their trivialities trodden under foot; the fate of towards, to lose; the fate of visionaries and great men to sue the impossible acmmplished. Thirty buildings on a hill, a half million proud to be called his fellow Citizens, the medical eyes of a world looking again into the Ohio Valleyethese are the fruits of a decade and of one man's doing. MARTIN H. FISCHER. Page Ten

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Holmes and Drake l: T THE command of my colleagues I am here to comply with a usage eo-eval with centennial celebrations of beneFtcent institutions. and to recall the human factors most prominent in conceiving and executing their aims and purposes. The century just Closing over this school has encom- passed three generations. each in its turn doing its duty as it saw it. The Medical College of Ohio was foundat'l with a small beginning: The idea in which it was conceived was developed and brought to full maturity in the Medical Department of the University, as it is today. In one form or other it has with- stood for a century the vicissitudes of peace and of war. Four times its faculty and sons were at the service of its country. Except for one year, its doors were never closed. Two of the generations have passed away. What was mortal of the masterful leader of the third was carried from this hall less than a year ago. There tll'C a few of this third generation who tarry, and still Hcarry 0n, blending their efforts with those of the young and strong. 80 d0 generations imper- ceptibly g0 and come. To have liverl through a century, promoting the welfare of the whole Central Valley, the Medical Department of the University and its predecessors must have had many men of national and international eminence. This is not the plate to refer in specific manner to thoae whom through the Five decades: of my student antl academic life I admired, and whose memories I today revere. Two of the men who made the College. like the Alpha and Omega, stand out with great persistence. They are Daniel Drake and Christian R. Holmes. They will leave their impress on many generations yet to come. Not by that which they have written. but because of the institutions. of which one laid the founder lion and the other the ettp-strme. Fume gained by the pen. or by adding something to the general fund of knnwleclge. though for the time momentous, is short of life. There are a few writers of imaginative literature of proportions so titanic that they belong to and are read in all ages. Not sun with writers on medicine. Seventy years age there appeared Drake's enormous work 011 the 'tDiseases oi the Interior Valley. It took him thirty years to gather the material upon which it is based. He t'learly foresaw the miemsmpic origin of disease. As early as 1832 he surmised Cholera to be due to an infection of animaleulur origin. He believed tuberculosis to be ui this nature, and adopted this theory for malaria and typhoid. It was only the thinker speculuting on clinical facts. The thought was there. the proofs were adduced lJy pathologists decades later. Whv wonder, therefore that Drake's work was declared by :1 mmmittee oi the'Ameriean Medical Assnriatiun, Wt rlurahle monument to his name and to t1 medic til reputation not t Centennial Celebration Addrexs-Bv Jose-i R f t i . v i tEng.l. F. A. C. ' - Pl rmsawjf, 111'. D., 1'. R. C. .3. Page Twelve