At the commencement of the University Hospital School for Nurses, held
May 5th, the following nurses received their diplomas. The address to
the graduates was delivered by Dr. A. M. Shipley:
Miss Elizabeth Getzendanner was the president of the class, and Miss
Lucy B. Squires was the secretary.
Those who received diplomas were:
Miss Catherine Mabel Dukes, Maryland.
Miss Anna May Green, North Carolina.
Miss Laura Schley Chapline, West Virginia.
Miss Louise Dorsey Pue, Maryland.
Miss Grace Schoolfield Tull, Maryland.
Miss Annie Lou Wahm, South Carolina.
Miss Eva Sidney Chapline, West Virginia.
Miss Beulah Ophelia Hall, Georgia.
Miss Elizabeth Getzendanner, Maryland.
Miss Emily Lavinia Ely, Maryland.
Miss Lucy Bright Squires, North Carolina.
Miss Gertrude Hedwig Tews, Germany.
Miss Helen Mary Robey, Maryland.
Miss Blanche Almond, Virginia.
Miss Lillie Booker Carter, Virginia.
Miss Mary Barton Saulsbury, Maryland.
Miss Vera Wright, Maryland.
* * * * *
The alumni of the University will be pained to learn of the recent
illness of Prof. S. C. Chew. THE BULLETIN is glad to report that he is
now convalescing. No member of the Faculty is more esteemed and beloved
than is Professor Chew.
* * * * *
Dr. Leonard O. Sloane, of Juneau, Alaska, who has been visiting
Baltimore for several weeks, has left the city. He came to this city to
avail himself of the opportunities for clinical instruction offered by
this University, and was much pleased with the work he was able to see
at the University Hospital, the Woman's Hospital, the Hebrew Hospital
and at Bay View. He is physician to St. Ann's Hospital, at Juneau, and
is a progressive and able member of our profession.
* * * * *
In the recent examinations held for commissions in the medical corps of
the United States Army, Dr. J. S. Fox, one of the surgeons at the St.
Francis Xavier Hospital, was a successful contestant, and the War
Department has notified him that he will be commissioned a first
lieutenant and will be ordered to proceed to a post in the West. One
hundred doctors took the examination for the appointments, but only
thirteen were successful. Dr. Fox, who will be one of the youngest
surgeons in the Army, was high up in the list of the fortunate ones.
Dr. Fox is a son of the late Dr. T. S. Fox, of Batesburg, who was a
distinguished surgeon in the Confederate Army. He is a nephew of Mr. J.
T. Fox, of that town. Dr. Fox is twenty-nine years of age, and was born
in Batesburg, S. C. After completing the high school at that place he
entered Richmond College, Richmond, Va., and was there for three years,
when he entered the Medical College at Baltimore. Fourteen months ago he
came to Charleston to accept an appointment as one of the house surgeons
of the St. Francis Xavier Infirmary, and during his stay in this city
has made a fine record for himself, and now has many friends here.
As soon as his commission arrives he will leave here for Fort Sam
Houston, Texas, the station designated in the orders of the War
Department. There are at present several troops of the Third Cavalry and
a battalion of light artillery from the Third Field Artillery Regiment
stationed at this important post, which is considered to be one of the
most agreeable army posts in the South. On October 1, Dr. Fox will be
ordered to report to Washington, where he will be detailed to attend the
Army Medical College for a period of eight months.
* * * * *
The Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry and the Board of Trustees of the
American Medical Association have adopted a vote of thanks to Daniel
Base, Ph. D., professor of analytical chemistry, Department of Medicine,
University of Maryland, for his co-operation and assistance in
investigating products and for special research work done at the request
of the Council.
It has been definitely decided that the new operating room which is to
be built at St. Joseph's Hospital is to be dedicated to the memory of
Dr. Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, who died of septicemia after performing an
operation upon an infected kidney at the hospital, as a result of which
the patient lived. A tablet bearing Dr. Trimble's name and the incidents
surrounding his martyr-like death will be placed in the operating room.
* * * * *
Dr. John R. Winslow read a paper on “A Case of Tuberculosis of the
Fauces and Lingual Tonsils, Caused by Tuberculin Injections,” before the
Section on Laryngology and Rhinology, Friday, March 26, 1909. At the
same meeting Dr. J. N. Reik read a paper on “The Present Status of the
Surgical Treatment of Purulent Disease of the Nasal and of the Aural
Cellular Spaces: a Comparison.”
* * * * *
Dr. and Mrs. A. Duvall Atkinson, who have been spending a few days in
Washington, have returned to their home, 924 North Charles street.
* * * * *
Under the title of leading men of Maryland, “The Star” has this to say
concerning Dr. Louis McLane Tiffany:
Dr. Louis McLane Tiffany is not only one of the best-known men in
Maryland, but enjoys a reputation that is international as an operating
surgeon. He has performed successfully many unusual and difficult
operations, and has contributed much to his profession by original
research. He was born in Baltimore, October 10, 1844, and is related to
the well-known McLane family of Maryland and Delaware. He received his
bachelor of arts degree from Cambridge University, England, in 1866, and
upon his return to Baltimore entered the University of Maryland as a
medical student, his degree as doctor of medicine being conferred upon
him in 1868. He soon attained prominence in his chosen work. For many
years he has been professor of the principles and practice of surgery at
the University of Maryland. He has been operating surgeon of many of the
Baltimore hospitals, has performed operations on prominent persons all
over the country, and is the author of a number of treatises on
particular phases of surgery. Dr. Tiffany helped to found the Maryland
Clinical Society, is a member of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of
Maryland and an active or honorary member of many other societies.
* * * * *
Recently there was unveiled at St. Timothy's Church, at Catonsville,
Md., a beautiful memorial window designed and executed in Favrile glass
to the memory of Dr. Charles G. W. Macgill, who was president of the
First National Bank of Catonsville and a physician widely known in that
part of Baltimore county. This memorial, the subject of which is St.
Luke, is in three panels, the figure of the evangelist being in the
center opening, while a splendid landscape is carried out in the two
side panels. On a scroll carried by St. Luke is the text: “For to one is
given by the Spirit the gifts of healing.” 1 Cor., xii: 8-9. At the base
of the window is the dedicatory inscription: “In Loving Memory of
Charles G. W. Macgill. Born May 10th, 1833. Died April 28th, 1907.”
* * * * *
At the coming meeting of the American Medical Association Dr. Henry D.
Fry, of Washington, will read a paper on “An Ovarian Abscess Containing
a Lunbricoid Worm Within the Cavity;” H. D. Hynson, Phar. D., “The
National Formulary: Its Genesis, Character and Exigent Utility.”
* * * * *
Dr. W. L. Hart, class of 1906, first lieutenant, United States Army, has
been ordered to accompany Company G, Engineers, to San Francisco, Cal.,
and then to return to Washington Barracks, D. C.
* * * * *
The following physicians have consented to act as admitting physicians,
Maryland State Sanatorium: Dr. Gordon Wilson, Baltimore; Dr. Charles H.
Conley, Adamstown; Dr. Guy Steele, Cambridge; Dr. Paul Jones, Snow Hill;
Dr. Henry Fitzhugh, Westminster. Drs. Guy Steele and C. H. Conley are
members of the Board of Managers.
Dr. A. M. Shipley, class of 1902, has been elected consulting surgeon to
the Sydenham Infectious Hospital, and Dr. H. O. Reik, of 506 Cathedral
street, consulting otologists.
* * * * *
Dr. H. E. Palmer, of Tallahassee, has been elected president of the
Florida State Medical Association for the ensuing year.
* * * * *
The marriage of Miss Elizabeth P. Elliott, daughter of Mrs. Warren G.
Elliott, to Dr. Gordon Wilson, associate professor of medicine in the
University of Maryland, will take place on Saturday, June 5, 1909. The
ceremony will be performed at 6 o'clock at Old St. Paul's Protestant
Episcopal Church, Charles and Saratoga streets, by the rector, Rev.
Arthur B. Kinsolving. Owing to mourning in the bride's family, the
marriage will be a quiet affair.
* * * * *
Another wedding of interest to take place in June is that of Miss Lila
Holmes Trenholm, daughter of Mr. Glover Holmes Trenholm, a graduate of
the Training School for Nurses of the University Hospital, and
granddaughter of the late Prof. Julian Chisholm, to Dr. Walton A.
Hopkins, class of 1903, of Annapolis, Md.
* * * * *
At the annual meeting of the Cecil County Medical Society, held in
Elkton, Md., April 29, 1909, Dr. C. P. Carrico, of Cherry Hill, was
elected president for the ensuing year.
* * * * *
Dr. George H. Steuart, class of 1898, is located at Ottoman, Va.
* * * * *
Prof. Samuel C. Chew, the nestor of the Medical Faculty of the
University of Maryland, is confined to the University Hospital with a
bad attack of grip. Dr. Chew is one of the oldest and most beloved of
the medical fraternity of Baltimore. He has been connected with the
University of Maryland for more than fifty years, graduating with the
class of 1858. All of us wish Dr. Chew a rapid restoration to his former
good health.
Forty professional men were present May 1, 1909, at the Colonial Hotel,
where the fourth annual reunion and banquet of the Pennsylvania Branch
of the General Alumni Association of the University of Maryland was
held. Dr. Eugene F. Cordell was one of the guests; others were Dr.
Charles P. Noble, president of the Pennsylvania Branch, and Dr. J. C.
Beale, secretary and treasurer, both of Philadelphia.
The banquet was held in the new assembly room, which was tastefully
decorated with plants, flowers and the colors of the University. The
banquet committee consisted of Drs. Z. C. Myers and S. K. Pfaltzgraff,
of York; J. S. Classen and J. C. Beale, of Philadelphia.
* * * * *
It is reported that Dr. John Cox Keaton, class of 1907, of Georgia, has
been shot in the abdomen by an irate husband.
* * * * *
At the annual meeting of the Cecil County Medical Society, held at
Elkton, Dr. St. Clair Spruill spoke on “Surgical Conditions of the Right
Side of the Abdomen.”
* * * * *
The New York Medical Journal says concerning the April 13th meeting of
the Philadelphia Pediatric Society: “The paper of the evening was read
by Dr. Compton Riely, of Baltimore, on 'The Early Diagnosis and
Treatment of Pott's Disease.'”
* * * * *
The following of our alumni are upon the staff of the Hospital for the
Women of Maryland, John street and Lafayette avenue, Baltimore: Dr.
Charles H. Riley, Dr. J. Mason Hundley, Dr. Archibald C. Harrison, Dr.
Robert T. Wilson, Dr. Samuel T. Earle and Dr. George W. Dobbin. Dr. G.
W. Billups, class of 1906, is resident physician.
* * * * *
Mr. and Mrs. William T. Schultze, of 822 Newington avenue, Baltimore,
have announced the engagement of their daughter, Dr. Anna D. Schultze, a
graduate of the Woman's Medical College and resident physician of the
Good Samaritan Hospital, to Dr. John R. Abercrombie, dean of the Woman's
Medical College, a graduate of the University of Maryland of the class
of 1895, and at present instructor in diseases of the skin, University
of Maryland. No date has been fixed for the wedding.
* * * * *
At the coming meeting of the American Medical Association Dr. I. S.
Stone, of Washington, will read a paper on “Some Minor Gynecologic
Matters Which Are Often Overlooked.”
* * * * *
Dr. Charles H. Medders, of Baltimore, who sued the Western Maryland
Railroad for $5,000 for services rendered in a collision four years ago,
was rendered a verdict for $150.
* * * * *
At the annual meeting of the Montgomery County Medical Association, held
in Rockville, April 20, 1909, the following of our alumni were elected
to office for the ensuing year: Vice president, Dr. Wm. L. Lewis, of
Kensington; secretary-treasurer, Dr. John L. Lewis, of Bethesda.
* * * * *
The Baltimore City Medical Society has elected our alumni to the
following offices for the ensuing year: President, Dr. Jacob Hartman;
board of censors, Dr. Randolph Winslow.
* * * * *
Dr. G. Lane Taneyhill, of Baltimore, is a member of the House of
Delegates of the American Medical Association from Maryland at the
present meeting of the American Medical Association, at Atlantic City.
* * * * *
Dr. A. E. Ewens, of Atlantic City, was a member of the Committee on
Section Meetings at the recent meeting of the American Medical
Association. Dr. Daniel Jenifer also had the honor and pleasure of
serving upon this committee. Dr. Jenifer was also a member of the
Committee on Post-office and Telephone. Dr. A. E. Ewens also served on
the Committee on Badges.
* * * * *
Dr. Thomas A. R. Keech, class of 1856, and Mrs. Keech, of Washington, D.
C., celebrated at their home, 416 B street, northeast, on April 13,
1909, the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage. The house was
beautifully decorated with cut and potted plants. A collation was
served. The family are of English descent, having emigrated and settled
in Southern Maryland about 1750. Dr. Keech is a son of the late Rev.
John Reeder and Susan P. Keech.
* * * * *
Dr. John Herbert Bates, class of 1907, of Forest Park, Baltimore, a
former resident physician of Bay View Hospital, and until recently a
resident physician at the Church Home and Infirmary, has located at 4002
Main avenue, Forest Park.
* * * * *
The third annual banquet of the General Alumni Association of the
University of Maryland was held Thursday, April 22, 1909, at the Eutaw
House, Baltimore. About 90 were present. The affair was a thoroughly
enjoyable occasion, but more enthusiasm would have been evident if more
of the members of the various faculties had been present. The
Pharmaceutical Department, with less professors than the other
departments, had most members present. The speeches were witty and
instructive, and teemed with expressions of loyalty to the University.
As oft iterated and reiterated, this body is the only real live alumni
body at the University of Maryland. It has been doing since its
inception, and is still doing, and if the University ever be rejuvenated
much of the credit will be due to the constant agitation of this body
for a larger and better university. Most alumni banquets consist of a
feed, good, better or worse, as it might happen to be, and a slew of
speech artists of more or less renown, who bubble over with big words of
encouragement and prediction, but rest on their oars here. Indeed, the
societies exist for a banquet once a year and a cyclone of hot air. What
do words accomplish? Nothing. It is action that the University of
Maryland needs, and more than anything else men of action—strong men,
broad-minded men, men who can subordinate their success to the success
of the institution, men in every sense of the word. I am glad to say the
General Alumni Association has an abundance of men of such character
among its membership who are doing something for the good of the Old
University, and who have an object in view. What is this object? The
creating of ways and means for the betterment of the University.
At the business meeting immediately preceding the banquet the following
recommendation of the special committee appointed for the purpose of
formulating a plan for the participation of the alumni in the management
of the University was adopted unanimously.
The plan provides that the Board of Regents of the University shall be
enlarged by the addition of five members, one each from the five
departments, who shall have had their degrees for 10 years or more. It
provides for the election of a committee on nominations, to consist of
the president of the association and one representative from each of the
five departments. This committee shall select three representatives from
each of the five departments as nominees for the alumni in good standing
in the association to vote upon. Votes may be cast in person or by mail.
After the election of the five members of the council they shall
determine by lot who are to serve for one, two, three, four or five
years, respectively.
Any vacancy is to be filled by the remaining members of the Alumni
Council from the department from which the member was originally chosen.
The secretary of the General Alumni Association shall act as the
secretary of the alumni regents, who shall select their own chairman for
one-year terms.
The committee consisted of the following well-known alumni of the five
departments of the University:
Medical—Dr. B. Merrill Hopkinson and Dr. E. F. Cordell.
Pharmacy—Dr. John F. Hancock and Dr. J. Emory Bond.
Dental—Dr. L. H. Farinholt and Dr. Joseph C. Heuisler.
Law—Messrs. B. Howard Haman and Jas. W. Bowers, Jr.
Academic (St. John's College)—Dr. J. Frederick Adams and Dr. A. L.
Wilkinson.
No further action, however, can be taken in the matter until approved or
vetoed by the Board of Regents.
The president, John B. Thomas, Phar. D., introduced the toastmaster,
Henry P. Hynson, Phar. D., who was in a particularly bright and witty
mood. The speakers were: Hon. J. Barry Mahool, the Mayor of Baltimore;
John C. Hemmeter, M. D.; Addison Mullikin, Esq., LL. B.; Charles
Caspari, Phar. D.; Joshua W. Hering, M. D., Comptroller of the State of
Maryland and a graduate of the class of 1855, of Westminster, Md.
Those who were not present do not know what they missed. It was a live
banquet, something doing every minute, and the committee in charge of
the arrangements are to be congratulated upon the thoroughness with
which they accomplished their task.
Committee—T. O. Heatwole, chairman; Oregon Milton Dennis, LL. B.; Eugene
Hodson, Phar. G.; Arthur M. Shipley, M. D.
Among those present were: William Tarun, Dr. J. W. Bird, J. Huff, Dr.
Compton Reilly, J. Cromwell, Dr. Randolph Winslow, Dr. R. B. Hayes, C.
V. Mace, L. M. Allen, Dr. R. H. P. Bay, Dr. I. J. Spear, H. H. Richards,
Dr. J. F. Hawkins, Dr. W. V. S. Levy, T. Marshall West, S. W. Moore, I.
H. Davis, Dr. C. V. Matthews, F. J. Valentine, E. B. Howell, A. P.
Scarborough, G. F. Dean, G. A. Bunting, John C. Uhler, C. S. Grindall,
Dr. J. C. Hemmeter, Dr. A. M. Shipley, John Henry Keene, Dr. Robert L.
Mitchell, Judge H. Stockbridge, N. H. D. Cox, Dr. J. H. Holland, Dr.
Charles Caspari, Jr., H. P. Hynson, F. V. Rhodes, J. E. Hengst, O. C.
Harris, A. S. Binswanger, Dr. St. Clair Spruill, Dr. E. F. Cordell, Dr.
Nathan Winslow, Dr. J. M. Hundley, Daniel Base, Dr. Charles E. Sadtler,
Addison Mullikin, H. W. Jones, Dr. G. Lane Taneyhill, Dr. L. B. Henkel,
Jr., Dr. I. G. Dickson, F. J. S. Gorgas, Dr. T. O. Heatwole, J. W.
Bowers, Jr., Dr. J. W. Hering, Alfred E. Kemp, Oscar B. Thomas, J. B.
Thomas, Eugene W. Hodson, John F. Hancock, W. M. Fouch, D. R. Millard,
Emory Bond, C. A. Volkmar, Frank Black, H. P. Hynson, J. W. Westcott,
Dr. C. H. Medders, B. Elliott, Dr. Eugene Cordell, Leroy Oldham, A. R.
Dohme, B. A. Lillich, Oregon Milton Dennis, L. W. Farinholt, T. E.
Latimer, Ambrose Murphy, Dr. Henry Kennard, Dr. Herbert Zepp.
The “Clinic,” the year book of the College of Physicians and Surgeons,
Baltimore, which has just been issued, is dedicated to the memory of the
late Dr. Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, who gave his life that another's might
be saved. Dr. Trimble was a graduate of the University of Maryland,
class of 1884, and at the time of his death was Professor of Anatomy in
the College of Physicians and Surgeons.
* * * * *
Dr. A. J. Edwards, class of 1898, of Bristol, Tenn., is spending a few
days around the Hospital renewing old acquaintances.
* * * * *
Dr. Luther Bare, of Westminster, Md., was a recent visitor to the
University Hospital.
* * * * *
The banquet of the Medical Alumni Association will be held on the
evening of May 31, 1909.
* * * * *
Dr. and Mrs. B. Merrill Hopkinson, who have been spending the week at
the Hotel Chamberlin, Old Point Comfort, Va., have returned to the city.
* * * * *
The University of Maryland baseball team defeated the Midshipmen on the
Naval Academy grounds recently by the score of 2 to 0. Anderson, the box
artist, struck out twenty of the middies. The team this year has been
more than successful, and compares favorably with the teams of the
larger colleges. It is undoubtedly the premier team of Baltimore this
year, and in any other institution would arouse untold enthusiasm by its
notable victories.
* * * * *
Dr. Fitz Randolph Winslow, class of 1906, of Hinton, Va., paid a flying
visit to the Hospital recently.
* * * * *
Dr. J. W. Hering, class of 1855, of Westminster and State Comptroller,
who has been visiting his son and daughter-in-law, Dr. and Mrs. Joseph
T. Hering, at the St. Paul, Baltimore, has returned to his home, in
Westminster.
* * * * *
Amongst those who responded to toasts at the recent banquet of the local
branch of the Haverford College Alumni Association was Dr. Henry M.
Thomas.
* * * * *
Dr. Fitz Randolph Winslow writes from Hinton, Va., in the Valley of the
Shenandoah, the garden spot of Virginia, and for picturesque scenery
unexcelled in no part of the world, that he is doing nicely. He has seen
three goitres and heard of a wonderful cure for the same from an old
mountain woman. She took her own medicine, and claims to have been
benefited, so he gives the recipe: Put your hands behind your back, bend
over and take a horse's head between your teeth. Unfortunately, he
forgot to find out the statuo quo of the horse, so you might try the
dead or the quick, as suits your convenience. Her goitre is still very
apparent, but, sad to relate, she has no teeth left with which to finish
the job. This is only one specimen of the gross ignorance and
superstition of the hill people. They treat or mistreat themselves often
when ill principally by making teas of various herbs, such as boneset,
etc. Skunk oil is a panacea both internally and externally. He expects
no respectable disease can live in the same neighborhood with such an
odoriferous medicament.
* * * * *
Dr. John Chaplain Travers, class of 1895, of Cambridge, who recently
left for the Philippines, where he will enter the government service,
gave a farewell entertainment before leaving at the residence of Capt.
James C. Leonard.
* * * * *
Dr. J. Clement Clark, superintendent of the Springfield State Hospital,
presided at the third meeting of the Maryland Psychiatric Society, which
was held at the Sykesville institution. Among those present were: Drs.
J. C. Clarke, Marshall L. Price, Wm. F. Wohwartz, R. R. Norris, F. J.
Flannery.
* * * * *
It gives us pleasure to announce that Dr. Charles H. Mayo, of Rochester,
Minn., one of the renowned Mayo brothers, has accepted the invitation of
the Faculty of Physic to deliver a course of lectures on diseases on the
thyroid gland in the fall.
* * * * *
Dr. Lee Cohen, of Baltimore, will read a paper at the coming meeting of
the American Medical Association on “Post Operative Tonsillar Bleeding:
Its Surgical Control, with Mention of Cases;” Dr. R. L. Randolph, of
Baltimore, on “Rodent Ulcer of the Cornea;” Dr. Samuel Theobald, of
Baltimore, on “Reflex Aural Neurosis Caused by Eye Strain, with Report
of Cases.”
* * * * *
One of the marked developments of the Democratic State Central Committee
was a practically unanimous sentiment in favor of the renomination of
Dr. Joshua W. Hering, class of 1855, for State Comptroller. State and
county leaders were outspoken in their opinion that Dr. Hering's
popularity throughout the state, as well as his excellent record as
Comptroller, make his nomination virtually a matter of course.
* * * * *
The condition of Dr. R. A. Warren, of Hot Springs, Va., class of 1907,
who was operated on recently at the University Hospital for
appendicitis, is reported to be favorable.
* * * * *
Dr. Randolph Winslow desires to acknowledge cards from Drs. M. Zaki and
M. Teufik, 166 Mohamed Aly street, Cairo, Egypt. These are two of our
popular Egyptian students, and are located as noted above, where they
have met with unexpected success. Drs. Heilig, Moose, Kerr and
Pearlstine, four of our recent Southern alumni, paid their respects to
the University recently. The three former are located in North Carolina,
the latter in South Carolina.
* * * * *
The last regular meeting of the University of Maryland Medical
Association was held in the amphitheatre of the University Hospital,
Wednesday, April 21, 1909, and the program was as follows: 1.
“Preliminary Training Necessary for Those Contemplating the Study of
Medicine,” Dr. Randolph Winslow; 2. “The Teaching of Therapeutics,” Dr.
C. W. Mitchell; “The Teaching of the Specialties,” Dr. Hiram Woods.
The meeting was well attended and the papers were both instructive and
interesting. Dr. A. M. Shipley, the president, occupied the chair. This
is the last meeting of the society until the fall. Dr. Woods' paper
appears elsewhere in this number.
* * * * *
Dr. Richard H. Johnston, of Baltimore, will read a paper on “Benign
Tumors of the Turbinate Bodies Clinically and Pathologically
Considered,” at the coming meeting of the American Medical Association.
* * * * *
The Council on Medical Education of the American Medical Association in
its annual report has this to say concerning college mergers:
Another encouraging fact to be noted is the mergers being made among
medical schools whereby stronger schools are resulting. Notably in
Indiana, all of the regular schools in the state merged into the medical
department of Indiana University, while in Kentucky all of the medical
schools merged into the University of Louisville. In Cincinnati the two
regular schools merged into the University of Cincinnati; in Minnesota
Hamline merged into the medical department of the University of
Minnesota.
There are numerous other cities where mergers might be brought about if
those interested in general education and those in medical education in
each city would work together to secure them. For example, if all the
medical colleges of any large city, such as Chicago, Philadelphia, St.
Louis or others, could be merged into one great university medical
school, such as are to be found in Berlin, Paris or Vienna, it would be
of the greatest possible advantage to medical education in America.
In the evolution of general and medical education in this country it is
becoming more and more evident that a well-rounded university needs a
strong medical department, and it is now equally clear that a medical
school cannot reach the highest stage of its development except as the
medical department of a strong university. It is evident that within a
few years the medical schools of this country will, with few exceptions,
be the medical departments of universities. Fortunately for the medical
school, the university needs the medical school quite as much as the
medical school needs the university, so that almost any independent
medical school of real merit can secure desirable union with a
university. And this change will solve most of our present problems in
medical education.
Since our last conference there have been five important mergers of
medical colleges by which nine medical schools are replaced by four
stronger ones. These mergers were as follows:
1. At Louisville, Ky., the Louisville and Hospital Medical College, the
Kentucky School of Medicine and the University of Louisville Medical
Department united, retaining the name of the University of Louisville
Medical Department. This leaves but one regular medical college in
Louisville, where there were five colleges two years ago. As a direct
result of this merger, the school has received $25,000 from the city of
Louisville, and steps have been taken to build a new city hospital,
which is to be largely under the control of the medical school.
2. At Cincinnati the merger between the Medical College of Ohio and the
Miami Medical College has been completed, the new school to be the
Medical Department of the University of Cincinnati. The building of an
enormous new city hospital has already been started near the university
campus, and a new medical college building will be erected adjoining
this hospital. The outlook for this new school is very encouraging.
3. The Keokuk Medical College, College of Physicians and Surgeons,
located at Keokuk, Iowa, has turned all its property and good will over
to the Drake University, College of Medicine, at Des Moines, Iowa.
Amalgamation of the Cooper Medical College with Leland Stanford
University is announced. Henceforth the San Francisco institution will
be designated the School of Medicine of Stanford University. The
affiliation was given approval sometime ago, and it only remained for
the board of trustees of the University to formally accept the gift.
Why can't the independent medical colleges of Baltimore come together?
Such an event would accrue to the best interests of all concerned, and
would greatly tend to eliminate Baltimore as one of the dark spots upon
the medical educational horizon.