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In Memoriam The darkness of death is Hke the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying. When God in His Almight} Providence took from our midst Dr. Thomas Sargent Latimer, he took one of our most beloved professors. Thomas Sargent Latimer was born in Savannah, Geoi-gia, on June 15, 1839, and died in the city of Baltimore on May 16, 1906. His was the son of William Geddes Latimer, who died in Savannah in 1845, after w-hich period his family removed to Shrewsbury, Pennsylvania, and it was there that Thomas Latimer passed his youth. His early education was started at Shrewsbury Academy and was completed at a larger institution at York, Pennsylvania. At the age of eighteen he began the study of medicine, matriculating at the University of Maryland and graduating from that institution in the spring of 1861. Through study, convictions, and associations his sympathies were ear y enlisted with the South. A marked instance is shown here in the fact that his surroundings from the time he was five years of age were of an entirely different character and in an entirely different atmosphere from that of his boyhood and early manhood, he espoused the cause of the Southern Confederacy from a thorough conviction that the principles of the Lost Cause were just and right. He enlisted in May, 1861, as a private in the company commanded by Captain E. R. Dorsey of the First Maryland Infantry, and served with gallantry until his pro- motion and appointment as assistant surgeon in November, 1861. His next service was in the medical corps of the Army of Northern Virginia and his marked ability was recognized by promotion to the rank of full surgeon, by assignment to duty in charge of hospitals, as assistant medical purveyor of the army and other posts, requiring skill and intelligent business qualities. He was a participant in the first battle of Manassas, in the battles of the Valley Campaign of 1862, under Jackson, the Seven Days ' Battle in front of Richmond, including Gaines ' Mill, Malvern Hill, second battle of Manassas, Fredericksburg and the Spottsylvania campaign. His career as a soldier was closed with the surrender of the Army of the Confed- eracy. As a soldier, he was bold, intrepid, thoroughly cool, obedient and brave. As an army surgeon these same qualities were exemplified in the daily life. Self- sacrifice seemed to have been the key notes for his rule of life. 5
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After the war was over Dr. Latimer spent some little time in Porto Rico with a brother and returned to Baltimore in 1866 and was made resident physician in charge of the Lombard Street Infirmarj ' . In 1868 he began the practice of medi- cine as a private practitioner. In the spring of 1S73 he was appointed to the Professorship of Principles and Practice of Surgerj ' in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. On January 15, 1875, he was appointed to the Professorship of Physiology, Dental Histology and Comparative Dental Anatomy at the Baltimore College of Dental Surger ' which chair he held up to the time of his death. In 1877 he was transferred to the chair of Physiology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and again in 1888 he was transferred to the Chair of Principles and Prac- tice of Medicine, which he held up to the time of his death. Dr. Latimer ' s love for children caused him to pay especial attention to the diseases of childhood, and in 1876 he became one of the attending physicians at the Nurserj ' and Chili ' s Hospital, continuing his work with it actively for many years and up to the time of his death as a consultant. In 1882 he was elected vice-president of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland and two years later, in 1884, was made its president. In 1887 he was appointed a member of the State Lunacy Commission and shortly afterwards was made its president, which office he continued to hold and the duties of which he continued to discharge up to the time of his death. As a teacher the members of the Senior Class, will best remember him; he was earnest, faithful and indefatigable. He had the power of inspiring those around him to be definite and accurate in their work, to be careful in their observations and scientifically truthful in their deductions. In the lecture room he was eloquent, clear, concise, and definite in all of his statements. He had the power of graphically portraying every type of disease in the fewest possible words; of eliciting the leading and dominant symptoms of each case, and in his choice of language there was always the evidence of a cultured and literary mind, with an extensive and choice vocabu- lary. No student ever appealed to him for aid or advice without being materiallj ' benefited thereby. He was essentially the students ' friend; when it is considered that he was in touch with not less than si.x; hundred students a year, both dental and medi al, and that he was the physician to this large number, it can be appre- ciated how great were the demands upon his already overtaxed time. His benevo- lence was unbounded. Oft times when a student who was in a state of financial embarrassment had been taken ill with a disease that a nurse ' s attention was . necessary, he was known to defray all expenses. His private practice was extremely large, but his zeal, fidelity to work and systematic habit of discharging every duty promptly enabled him to get through each day with an enormous amount of work. No man was more greatly loved and idolized bj ' his patients, young and old, than was Thomas Latimer. He was one who loved truth and lavished life ' s best oils to find her. As a friend, comrade and companion there was lacking in him nothing one could desire. S. W. W. 6
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