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

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with the prufession it was not always clear how or wlutt best to do ebut in the and that which was done reflects the wisdom of honest struggle and is displayed in all its sublimity at the end oi 21 hundred years of service. If the roll of the old Guard was called tonight but few WIJultl answer. C'onnereComegySe-Carsoanawson-Dandridge-Mussey-Eit'llbergiFurCl't- heimer-ReamyePalmereMurphyeMentlenhttll-Miliikin- -HyntlnmniSt-t-ly - --HolmeraeWilliams-Rothueker --- Longwurth - WVhittuker antl others my treacherous memory does not now recalliall have gone to their sleep. Of the old Miami faculty one far in the afternoon of life is still spared to us. The Eight of years has silvered his heard but it ha's not bowed his head nnr dimmed his interest in the affairs of the craft. One whom you deservedly honored today. mellowed by age still treads the furrow. Wilh zeal unabating he lingers at the alter around which his fonrlest memories dwell daily renewing the faith of the fathers and drinking tleep of the greater faith of the new generation. The men of his making are- around you and scattered over the land thousands Htill live whnse vnltmhle lives were lash- ioned by his singular power as a teacher. But Siricrateiul as we are to the men of the past let L15 not forget the part played by the great City of Cincinnati. From a population of ten thousand in 1820, the city has grown until today practically live hundred thnusanrl are found within its corporate limits. While other Cities in these years: have ex- ceeded this growth none may boast of :1 better government nor excel in a more generousimore contentedemore prosperous and patrintie citizenship It may be truly said that what the city did in granting permission to iesue bonds for the building ed a great hospital was the outcome of years of endeavor by one man and that man an alumnus of this college. Twenty years of patient waiting. watching and appealing to nverenme all obstacles and yet so sincere the purpose and so pure that it required but a single clay for the people to grant its credit in support of the great undertaking. This was the one important link needed to complete etlueatinnal requirements and make Cincinnati the medical mecca of the Central States. Spurred by the willingness of the people to bear the burden of the fabulous cost of this wonderful improvement and to support by yearly appropriations funds to maintain the hospital and the school. Philantruphy stretching out a bountiful hand provided the funds for the construction of a medical college building rivalling in archi- tectural beauty all similar structures in the land. The uncertain future of a little chiid struggling in its mother's anus, quickened the ultruistic spirit of the same loving and discerning woman and folltm'ing her noble and divine impulses she gave freely from her purse that the infant might live to enjoy a happeir future. Again may it be said that an alumnus of this century Old seh001--a genius who for forty years bowed over microscope and test tube weaving from his deep and ceaseless studies. immutable laws to govern the control of early life. made possible by his intense interest this precimm contribution the better to spread to listening craftsmen the power to correct and conserve. The sacrifices made by medical men in which life itself was oFfered for the beneht Of the human family has been supplemented by precious gifts without Page One Hundred Eighty-jiw

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As children of the old college returning to celebrate the finish of one and the beginning of another century each will have his story of the one who most did give him strength and support in the moulding of his career. Whittaker, the unpretentious selmlariwilh power unfeigned, left an imprint upon hundreds of his students that time has not effaeetl. The stimulus to imitate his varied perfections was received from his every utterance and was accepted by everyone sitting at. his feet like a holy baptism administered to devoted disciples. He was an ardent admirer of Daniel Drake, the founder of medical education in this City. Proud of the privilege to be numbered as one to take up the work begun by the old battling pioneer, he never lost opportunity to express his admiration for this uncompromising toilet. Whittaker was chosen to Fill the chair of Theory and Practice in the year 1879 and began his lectures by giving a history of the Chair Dl Practice. It was carefully prepared as were all his lectures and reads like a romance. To me he represented everything that was profound. He never lacked for language to express his ideas. Each word he used H1 ted so precisely with the one to come that his every effort resembled all that could be expected of literary skillebeauty and perfection. Many of the students were illy prepared by preliminary education for the deeper study of medieine-yet everyone who listened to this amiable and dis- tinguished savant was inspired to better endeavor. His passing was untimely. Brilliant as was his career in the chair of medi- cine it was ably maintained by every successor. To what extEnt medicine is now taught by didactic methods. I Cannot tell. ll' progress has decreed a dih'erent course then surety is the student of today deprived of much that is charming in his preparation. Let it not he assumed that as a simple lahnrer in the vineyard I would be thoughtless or cruel enough to make comparison of the present with the past. particularly when it covers a period of forty years. Yet speaking for the t'hildren oi the old home-place whether in the Old Miami-the Old Cincinnati 01' the old Ohio. I feel I would be untrue to the traditions of the past if I failed to pay tribute to the earnest men who in by-gone years paved the way for that which gives the greater glory in the marvellous reconstruction eff today. The old proprietary colleges are gone never to be revived. Their teaching force in that day held the best men of the city. Their hickerings and their differences were of value only because they incited each to better work. Young men well prepared were yearly sent to the world to bind up its wounds. Yet these very men meeting as internee in the hospital or mingling in their several Fields of work melted into one common band of brothers with but the single purpose to blaze the way for that which followed. From among these some were placed on duty to work out questions of great moment to the public and t0 the profession. Time alone revealed their importance. The constant concern of one among us in child education has been so intense and untiring that a school system has evolved in our city so niagnihcient that it has excited the wonder and envy of the entire Civilized world. In questions interlaced Page One Hundred Eighty-fuur

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number for the support of investigations into the hidden mysteries of life that disease might be prevented or conquered if it appeared. In our midst. Sir: public spirited men and women have ungrudgingly given of their means that the institution of which you are the directing leader might successfully mmplete the mission for which its very department was designed and teach the gospel of a betterehigher and purer civilization. This very day a loving daughter in memory of her illustrious father lays her offering in your hands that every mother in her hour of travail may receive the most enlightened care. It is a pleasure to record thul an alumnus, near timl clear to me, was able to perform some little part in the unexpected bestowed ul' this weicome bequest. t'VVhateve-r I have that is of value will I give to my brother that he miiy administer it unto him who needs healing. This, Sir: is the religion which prevails among this llnselhsh family which int 50 many years in groups have left our clams. It is a part of that unwritten law handed down through the ages of the. past -;ll1ti so strangely precious that it will endure through the ages yet to come. It is the spiritual complement of the Science secretSebth finding their prisone-sets them free. It is the humane encouragement of that genius which the il-fasfer has given man to designate him the most intelligent of all his creatures; and by the mime token tti remind man that this genius he must employ for the good of Hie people without the power to perform the miracles recorded in the Holy Writ. Seven thousand five hundred graduates have been sent to the held of operation since the year 1820. Of this number many have long since passed to their reward-others hesitating to meet the exacting requirements of tluty drifted into more congenial callings. Hundreds still live who devoted to their work move among the suFfering applying their talents with good common sense to the entl that pain and sorrow may be driven from the home; and it is not infrequently observed in this connection that the humblest practitioner exhibits judgment in the application of his knowledge equal to and sometimes better than the one from whom he received his lessons. Remarkable activity is witnessed everywhere by the younger men. who prepared for work better than ever before in the history of the SCillJUlitiElHUll- Hti'ate their worth in all the numberle ramifications of the science. Some display pecuiiar abilities in the Field Of sanitation ancl by their wise and prudent direction keep our homes and stores and factories and schoolSe indeed ali places where people gather. immune from infection. Others toil unseen in silent laboratories patiently searching for secrets which still lie hidden in the Womb of Mystery in the hope always of discovering new antidotes for the poisons which destroy. By far the greater number serve faithfully in the home where trials begin traversing in their mercifui mission the lonely highways into crowded centers often where want peeps in at the window and grief too is lapping at the door. Still others more Finished in the science antl art of surgery correct btitlily injuries and other abnormalities and by their marvellous and successful skill in the operating mum attract the grateful approval of the world. Uttt'asinnttlly it neeurs that from the ranks, men of great executive uhility are discovered. that Science which has no Page Um' Hundred Eigi'u'y-nx