University of Louisville - Thoroughbred Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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Twenty-four JoHN WaLker Moore Dean In those early times of herb medicine and raw surgery, the medical institution of the city of Louisville was born. It had its inception in the medical unit of Transylvania College, Lexington, Kentucky, and in 1837 inherited the professors and much of the glory of this distinguished old school. Nine years later, it was wise enough to aid in the formation of the University of Louisville. The next half century, it grew with the rest of medical knowledge and facilities. It gradually changed its teaching methods from those of lec- tures and apprenticeships to those of laboratory in- vestigations and clinical observations—it saw medi- cine become a science Four other medical schools appeared in Louis- ville within this time, and all competed more or less until their union in 1908 with the Medical In- stitute to form the University of Louisville School of Medicine. In recent years, the Medical School has ma- tured. The building, built in the late nineteenth century by the Louisville College of Medicine, has been expanded and modernized. The direct super- vision by the Medical School over the City Hospi- tal and the Children’s Free Hospital with the teach- ing affiliations of the Waverly Hills Tuberculosis Sanatorium offers nine hundred and fifty beds for instruction purposes. The control of the city de- partments of Bacteriology and Epidemiology allow the free access to teaching materials. The mental hygiene clinic is a recent aid in the pursuit of knowledge. The School of Medicine has the distinction of being the oldest school west of the Alleghenies and the first unit of the oldest municipal University in this country.

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First Row—Irvin Abell, S. Spafford Ackerly, Anthony M. Ambrose, Bernard Asman, Second Row—Philip F, Barbour, Albert L. Bass, James W. Bruce, Arch Evan Cole. Third Row—William E. Gardner, Harold Gordon, Owsley Grant, R. Arnold Griswold. Fourth Row—Edmund K. Hall, Joseph E. Hamilton, Granville S. Hanes. Charles W. Hibbitt. FACULTY--- SCHOOL Twenty-five