The doctorate address delivered at the semi-centennial anniversary of the University of Louisville, Medical Department, March 2, 1887 / by David W. Yandell.

  • Yandell, David Wendel, 1826-1898.
Date:
1887
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Credit: The doctorate address delivered at the semi-centennial anniversary of the University of Louisville, Medical Department, March 2, 1887 / by David W. Yandell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    dress-coats were in general use, and constituted the reg- ulation dress of the professor when he appeared before his class.] The central figure of that group of noted teachers who founded the University was Charles Caldwell. He was a massive man in body and mind. He was both tall and broad. His carriage was erect. His head was sim- ply grand, his mouth was large, his eyes were bluish gray. He had studied elocution. His gestures and his speech were studied also. His manners, usually cold, were always stately. He spoke in long, well-rounded periods, and in a great sonorous voice. He was learned in the languages, fond of study, and of abstemious habits. Besides all this he was a man of affairs, and delighted in controversy. He taught the physiology of his day, which was largely the physiology of the ancients, but he taught it in so impressive a manner that his classes received it as gospel and voted him its greatest expounder. Beside him stood John Esten Cooke, a simple man in all his ways. He was of medium stature, with a face much like that represented in the portraits of Sydenham. He had brought himself prominently before the public by his Pathology and Therapeutics, a work which ad- vanced peculiar theories and advocated a heroic practice.