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H Dr. James Morrison Bodine AMES MORRISON BODINE was born at Fairfield, Nelson County, Kentucky, on the second day of October, 1831. His parents, Dr. Alfred Bodine (who was of Huguenot ancestry) and Fannie Maria Ray Bodine, represented families well known in the pioneer history of the State, and were distinguished for high intelligence and strong character. His primary education was obtained at the private schools in the town where he was born. From these schools he entered St. Joseph's College, where he obtained a good basis for a further collegiate course at Hanover College, Indiana. Soon after leaving Hanover he entered the office of Prof. H. M. Bullitt, M. D., as a medical student, and under his direction began his medical course at the Kentucky School of Medicine, from which institution he was graduated March 1, 1854. In the following May he went to Austin, Texas, where he began the practice of his profession. Soon after his arrival in Austin he formed a partnership with an established practitioner, in which capacity he realized immediate success. In the fall of 1855 he returned to Kentucky to visit his parents and to take unto himself an helpmeet. After his marriage, on December 25, 1855, to Mary Elizabeth Crow, daughter of Edward Crow, one of Louisville’s most distinguished citizens, his plans were materially modified, and he determined to remain in Louisville. Soon after returning to Louisville he was called to the position of Demonstrator of Anatomy in his Alma Mater. He per- formed the duties of this office during the session of 1856-'57, and then, on account of the ill health of his wife, he moved to Kansas, where he remained five years. There his ability was properly and immediately recognized, and he became the first president of the first medical society organized in that Territory. He was also the founder of the first hospital established in the Territory (Kansas), and during his stay there was a prime factor in the promotion of the interests of medical science and the improvement of social conditions. In 1863 the Chair of Anatomy in the Kentucky School of Medicine was offered him, and, yielding to the importunities of his friends, he accepted the position and at the opening of the year 1864 began his first course of lectures. He served this institution during the sessions of 1864, 1865, and 1866, after which he accepted a call to the Chair of Anatomy in the Medical Department of the University of Louisville. On the nineteenth of January, 1867, he was elected Dean of the Medical Faculty, which position he held until 1907, when he was elected President of the Faculty. His office has been and is one of great responsibility, involving not only a critical observance of the general affairs of the medical college, but a particular regard for its receipts and ex- penditures. He has shown excellent administrative ability, and notwithstanding the demands of his private prac- tice has faithfully filled all of the requirements of his official trust. at
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Among the many honors to be laid at his feet is that of the establishment of the American Medical College Association. The idea of its formation occurred to him in the spring of 1876. He entered into correspondence with the deans of all the regular American colleges, and soon had these institutions committed to a special meet- ; 0 ae 5 ho y : cami. ; 5 i ing at Philadelphia in the following June. The declared object of the Association was to institute methods of practi- cal improvement in medical college work, and to advance the standard of medical education. At the sixth session of this Association, held in Richmond, Virginia, June, 1881, he was chosen president. In November, 1892, the Southern Medical College Association was organized at Louisville, and he was chosen president of that body, was re-elected at the session held at New Orleans in 1893, and again at Charleston, S. C., in 1894. In 1895 the Medical College of the University of Louisville joined the Association of American Medical Colleges, and Dr. Podine was sent as its representative to a meeting held at Baltimore in 1895, where he was elected first vice-presi- dent, and in May, 1896, when the Association met in Atlanta, he was elected president to succeed Prof. William Osler, of Johns Hopkins. In June, 1903, his Alma Mater (Hanover College) conferred upon him the degree of EEE D: This all-too-brief-a-sketch of Dr. Bodine’s life and professional career shows how closely he has been identified with the growth and prosperity of the University of Louisville. Professor of Anatomy since 1866, Dean of the Medical Faculty for forty-one years, and President of the entire Faculty since August, 1907, he has been the Uni- versity’s chief officer during more than half of its existence; and during his long administration there has occurred no marring or disagreeable circumstance to disturb the affairs of the University. Strong in body and vigorous in mind, he has lost no time in the faithful performance of his every duty toward the great trust com- mitted to him. As a lecturer he has a peculiarly lucid, forceful, and magnetic style. He is careful and painstaking in the presentation of his subjects, so that the information given to his classes is easily received and retained by the student. In a word, his whole life has been that of a man in love with his profession— “Not for a meed of gold, or glory won, Has his determined work of life been done ; Not for himself alone has he inclined To cut a passage through the realm of mind; Not for his own advance, but with the plan To boldly press the onward march of man.”
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