The evolution of medicine in Connecticut with the foundation of the Yale Medical School as its notable achievement / [Walter R. Steiner].

  • Walter Ralph Steiner
Date:
1915
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    THE EVOLUTION OF MEDICINE IN CON¬ NECTICUT, WITH THE FOUNDATION OF THE YALE MEDICAL SCHOOL AS ITS NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT. Walter R. Steiner, M. A. M. D., On this hundredth anniversary of the Yale Medical School, how I wish I had the pen of a Henry Bronson,1 a Gurdon W. Russell,2 or a Francis Bacon,3 so that I might successfully portray the evolution of Medicine in Connecticut, with the foundation of the Yale Medical School as its notable achievement! But these distinguished graduates are no more, and the honor is mine to do what they could have more successfully performed. In the early history of New England, the outlook for the physician was decidedly discouraging, there 1 Dr. Henry Bronson was a graduate of the Yale Medical School in 1827, and Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics there from 1842-1852, and again from 1853-1860. He wrote an Historical Account of the Origin of the Connecticut Medical Society. Trans. Conn. Med. Soc., 1873, p. 192, Medical History and Biography, N. H. C. Hist. Soc. Papers, New Haven, 1877, II, p. 239, and other valuable papers. 2 Dr. Gurdon W. Russell was a graduate of the Yale Medical School in 1837 and for seventy-two years a prominent physician in Hartford. He wrote Sketches of Physicians in Hartford in 1837, Hartford 1890 and Early Medicine and Early Medical Men in Connecticut, Trans. Conn. Med. Soc., 1892, p. 69. 3 Dr. Francis Bacon was a graduate of the Yale Medical School in 1853 and Professor of Surgery there from 1864-1877. He wrote a History of the Connecticut Medical Society, Trans. Conn. Med. Soc., 1892, p. 177, and Some Account of the Medical Profession in New Haven. History of the City of New Haven, New York, 1887, p. 260.