Catalogue of the medical graduates of the University of Pennsylvania : with an historical sketch of the origin, progress, and present state of the medical department / Pub. by direction of the Medical faculty of the University.
- Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
- Date:
- 1836
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Catalogue of the medical graduates of the University of Pennsylvania : with an historical sketch of the origin, progress, and present state of the medical department / Pub. by direction of the Medical faculty of the University. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![both schools, seventeen to one hundred, in ]810, sixty-five to four hundred and six, and in 1831, wlien the number of graduates was greatest, one hundred and fifly-onc to four liundi-ed and ten. III. History of the School from 1810 to 1835. From 1810 to 1835, the medical school may be considered as stationary in re- lation to its organization. The medical faculty, however, underwent during tliat period many changes in its members; and various interesting incidents occur- red, which deserve notice even in so slight a sketch of the liistory of the school as that here offered. In 1810, the faculty was thus constituted:— Professorehips. Professors. 1. Anatomy, Dr. Caspar Wistar ; 2. Practice, Institutes, and Clinical Medicine, Dr. Benjamin Rush ; 3. Materia Medica, Dr. Benjamin S. Barton ; 4. Chemistry, Dr. John Redman Coxe ; 5. Surgery, Dr. Philip Syng Physick ; Dr. John Syng Dorsey, Adjunct; 6. Midwifery, Dr. Thomas C. James. In 1813, the University met with a great loss in the death of Dr. Rush, who was succeeded in his chair by Dr. Barton, elected on the 14th of July. On the 13th of August, Dr. Nathaniel Chapman, who had been associated with Dr. James in his lectures on Midwifery, was elected to the professorship of Materia Medica, rendered vacant by the resignation of Dr. Barton. In October, the pro- fessorship of Midwifery was placed upon the same footing as the other profes- sorships, attendance upon the lectures being made necessary to graduation. No further change took place till 1816, when the death of Dr. Barton left a va- cancy, which was supplied by the appointment of Dr. Chapman to the chair of the Practice, Institutes, and Clinical Medicine. Dr. Dorsey was elected successor to Dr. Chapman in Materia Medica, on the 16th of April. In the same year, the professorship of Botany and Natural History, to which Dr. Barton had been originally elected, and which he had never relinquished, was formally abolished. The year 1818 was very eventful to the medical faculty. In the month of Ja- nuary, Dr. Wistar was cut off in the midst of his course, and in the height of an almost unequalled popularity. During the remainder of the session his place was supplied by Dr. Dorsey, who was regularly appointed his successor in the follow- ing May. The chair of Materia Medica, which tlius became vacant, was filled by the appointment of Dr. Coxe, who was succeeded in the chair of Chemistry by Dr. Robert Hare, elected on the 1st of September. Scarcely had the winter courses commenced, when the death of Dr. Dorsey rendered another choice neces- sary to the professorship of Anatomy. The Board of Trustees, however, were unable to act immediately in so unexpected an emergency; and the anatomical course was in the mean time conducted by Dr. Physick, who volunteered his ser- vices for this purpose. In July, 1819, Dr. Physick was regularly elected Professor of Anatomy. The surgical chair, which was thus left unoccupied, was filled on the 7th of Septem- ber by the election of Dr. William Gibson, at that time Professor of Surgery in the University of Maryland. The scries of changes consequent upon the death of Dr. Wistar, was not completed till the 5th of December, 1820, when Dr. William E. Horner was elected Adjunct Professor of Anatomy. The remaining changes up to the year 1835, may be staled in a few words. In 1825, the declining health of Dr. James rendering assistance necessary. Dr. 12](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24750128_0095.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
