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Part I: Jefferson Medical College 1855 to 1865 (Pages 89-124) Thomas Jefferson University Jefferson Digital Commons Thomas Jefferson University - A chronological history and alumni directory, 1824 - 1990, edited by Frederick B. Wagner, Jr., MD, and J. Woodrow Jefferson History and Publications Savacool, MD, 1992. January 1992 Part I: Jefferson Medical College 1855 to 1865 (pages 89-124) Follow this and additional works at: https://jdc.jefferson.edu/wagner1 Part of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Commons Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy Recommended Citation "Part I: Jefferson Medical College 1855 to 1865 (pages 89-124)" (1992). Thomas Jefferson University - A chronological history and alumni directory, 1824 - 1990, edited by Frederick B. Wagner, Jr., MD, and J. Woodrow Savacool, MD, 1992.. Paper 17. https://jdc.jefferson.edu/wagner1/17 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Jefferson Digital Commons. The Jefferson Digital Commons is a service of Thomas Jefferson University's Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL). The Commons is a showcase for Jefferson books and journals, peer-reviewed scholarly publications, unique historical collections from the University archives, and teaching tools. The Jefferson Digital Commons allows researchers and interested readers anywhere in the world to learn about and keep up to date with Jefferson scholarship. This article has been accepted for inclusion in Thomas Jefferson University - A chronological history and alumni directory, 1824 - 1990, edited by Frederick B. Wagner, Jr., MD, and J. Woodrow Savacool, MD, 1992. by an authorized administrator of the Jefferson Digital Commons. For more information, please contact: [email protected]. ~ 1855 ~ This was an important year in world medical Aedes aegypti mosquito was the responsible vec­ history. Manuel Garcia first performed mirror tor. As an independent investigator his presen­ laryngoscopy; Thomas Addison published his tation before the International Sanitation Con­ memoir on diseases of the suprarenal glands; J. ference in Washington (February 13, 1881) Marion Sims founded the Woman's Hospital of elicited little response but in 1900 his observa­ New York and von Graefe introduced iridec­ tions were proven correct when the well-known tomy. experiment of the Walter Reed Yellow Fever In the large graduating class of 256 members, Board in Havana, Cuba, confirmed the Aedes William Thomson of Pennsylvania was destined mosquito as the responsible vector. Finlay was in 1895 to become the first Chairman of the De­ honored by Jefferson with a degree of Doctor of partment of Ophthalmology at Jefferson as it is Science in 1902 and a commemorative sympo­ known today (Fig. 56). In 1861 he began a dis­ sium on yellow fever was held in 1955, the cen­ tinguished military career in the Union Army in tenary of his graduation. which he was complimented by President Lin­ Edward Maris, of Pennsylvania, in addition to coln for his work at the Battle of South Mountain his medical practice became a giant pioneer in where he took sole charge of 2,500 wounded men. After serving as inspector of all hospitals of the Washington area, he contributed largely to the first descriptions of osteomyelitis and wounds of the joints for the newly organized Army Medical Museum of which John Hill Brin­ ton (JMC, 1852, Fig. 51) was the first curafor. He aided the establishment of a photographic bu­ reau in the Museum which evolved into the Med­ ical Illustration Service of the Armed Forces In­ stitute of Pathology. He pioneered in experimental photomicrography which led to prints of microscopic fields that could be mag­ nified 15 to 250 times. In later years he contrib­ uted to safety on railroads by developing tests for color blindness as well as acuteness of vision and hearing of the trainmen. The College of Phy­ sicians of Philadelphia houses his ophthalmo­ scopes, correspondence, 14 volumes of case books, and his portrait by Thomas Eakins (1907). Another eminent graduate of 1855 was the fa­ mous Cuban, Carlos Juan Finlay, who was cred­ ited with the discovery of the mosquito trans­ mission of yellow fever (Fig. 57). Dr. Finlay'S observations on the epidemiology of the fever in his native Cuba were carried out over several Fig. 56. William Thomson OMC, 1855), Professor of Oph­ thalmology (1895-97). During the Civil War he aided the decades. As early as 1881 he had proposed the establishment of a photographic bureau that evolved into conditions necessary for its propagation. He had the Medical Illustration Service of the Armed Forces Insti­ even during the same year pointed out that the tute of Pathology. 1855 89 the field of numismatics. In 1869 he published Omaha Medical College (with Dr. Victor F. Coff­ Coins of Large Cents of the U.S. and in 1881 His­ man, JMC, 1866, Fig. 75) which in 1902 became torical Sketch of Colonial Coins of New Jersey. the Medical Department of the University of Ne­ Jacob c. Denise, a native of Ohio, settled in braska. Dr. Denise was also a founder and Pres­ Nebraska and became one of its most prominent ident of the Nebraska State Medical Society. physicians. In 1869 he was a founder of the FiAlili'S;;M Allen, Milton, PA Bartolette, T. Miles, NJ Allen, Thomas J., TN Bass, Robert E., VA Anawalt, James W., PA Basselleu, William F., sc Anthony, William, PA Beeler, Milton W., MS Asch, Morris J., PA Bell, Edwin R, OH Ashcraft, John H., PA Bell, George B., AL Backwell, Edward G., OH Bell, W. D., TX Banner, Constantine L., NC Bennett, Edmund, NJ Barham, R G., VA Beveridge, John L., GA Barr, Richard Rice, NC Blackford, Ben, VA Barr, W. F., VA Boies, Jeremich S., DE Boswell, Lewis A., VA Braford, Philip Spotswood, VA Brandt, Eli Bainbridge, PA Breed, William M., PA Breitling, Joseph, AL Brown, Bedford, MD Brown, Martin L., NC Brubaker, J. c., PA Bryan, Cyrus P., VA Buchanan, G. W., MO Buffington, John F., MD Buffington, John N., VA Butler, Anselm B., OH Cahall, Lawrence M., DE Callaghan, Arthur, MO Campbell, Westlee M., NC Cato, James F., GA Chew, Henry B., Jr., MD Chrisman, Burke, VA Clark, Hobson, VA Cole, John P., NJ Comfort, William A., CANADA Cowan, George, KY Cowell, J. George, MA Craven, Edmund R., PA Crothers, Robert W., IL Curd, John R, VA Dalton, George 0., MA Davies, William B., VA Davis, James S., MS Dean, Samuel Henry, GA Fig. 57. Carlos Finlay OMC, 1855) who in 1881 ascribed DeBarres, Ph., CUBA yellow fever to the bite of a mosquito. Denise, Jacob c., OH 90 1855 Dickerson, Robert J0' AL Hume, Quintus R, VA Dickson, Lycurgus Ao, TN Hunt, David G., GA Diffenbacher, Philip L., IL Hunt, William Henry, KY Dobyns, R L.Ho, VA Hunter, Samuel B., ME Donnelly, Charles Henry, CA ADA Ingram, So L., VA Dreher, Jurias G., PA Irvin, George, PA Failor, Benjamin Mo, OH Irvin, William, PA Fant, Samuel F., sc Jackson, John 5., VA Feay, John, PA Jennings, Robert Bo, VA Finlay, Carlos Jo, CUBA Jernigan, Charles Ho, AL Finlayson, William H., NC Johnston, James, PA Finley, Calvin G., sc Jones, Denwood T., MD Fischer, Wo Emil., PRUSSIA Jones, James Y., VA Fisler, Jacob T., NJ Jones, Joseph Addison, VA Fleming, Andrew, PA Jones, R Augustus, AL Flournoy, David, VA Jones, William WO, GA Ford, George W., PA Kahn, Louis DeBarth, PA Freas, H. L., PA Kane, John K., PA Frederick, Edward J., sc Kay, Isaac Fo, PA Gabby, R SO, OH Kennedy, Maxwell, PA Garnett, O. v., KY King, John F., DC Garnett, Thomas N., VA Leitch, J. Lewis, VA Graham, Leonidas J., AL Lewis, James Eo, VA Gray, Alexander R, PA Lewitt, William, MI Gray, John W, AL Lindsay, Andrew, PA Groome, Evan Jo, PA Logan, Samuel, PA Gross, Ferdinand H., PA Lowman, William G., PA Guild, James, Jr., AL Lumpkin, Samuel P., GA Gwin, Robert Do, TN Lynn, B. W, IN Hagenbuch, William A, OH Mackey, Alexander 5., VA Hall, George WO, IL Maddox, John ZO, GA Hall, R Fo, GA Madill, Thomas F., PA Hamilton, John W, PA Magill, Thomas, PA Hamilton, Swithen No, VA Maris, Edward, PA Hanley, Michael A, PA Markle, John Gideon, PA Harding, Philander H., ME May, John R, VA Hardwick, J. R, GA McClellan, Freeman, PA Harriss, Samuel Go, VA McCorkle, William A, VA Harriss, William H., PA McDowell, George M., GA Harvey, William c., MO McEwan, Christopher, PA Haslett, John D.S., PA McKinney, J 0 W, IL Haynie, James Mo, AL McLeod, John, AL Hebble, Joseph, OH McMullin, James, PA Heddens, William So, Jro, PA McPherson, George E., PA Herbst, William 5., Jr., PA McPherson, John H., VA Hill, Joseph, sc Miller, James SO, PA Hinchman, B., PA Mills, Nathaniel J., KY Hitt, Willis M., I Milton, Harvey Oliver, AL Holman, Henry W., VA Moody, Milus WO, MS Hopkins, Benjamin c., DE Moore, Alexander P., AR Hopkins, Benjamin Fo, VA Moore, John Ao, C Hoskins, William, VA Morgan, James, PA Houston, John, PA Morrow, William L., PA Hudson, William M., CT Moss, William, PA 1855 91 Murry, John Y., MS Simms, H. c., DC Myers, W. H., OH Sims, Joseph B., KY Nash, Miles H., FL Smith, Chauncey M., NY Newman, William H., KY Smith, Hosea H., NH Nichol, John, NY Smith, Joseph F., MS Nicholson, John c., TN Spears, Abraham Kellar, KY Ogburn, John F., VA Spencer, Cadwallader c., OH Ohl, Josiah G., PA Sproul, Samuel M., MO Osgood, William, PA Stavely, William R., PA Overton, William S., VA Stewart, David P., PA Park, William H., OH Stewart, Samuel F., PA Patton, Thomas, OH Strachan, Joseph Blackmam, VA Payzant, Elias N., NOVA, SCOTIA Strother, Robert c., VA Peeples, P. W., MS Swift, D. D., PA Pinkard, H.
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