RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE. (1844--) As to Accommodate About Two Hundred and Fifty Students, at a Cost of $15,000-This Expense Being Wholly Sustained by the Fac Ulty
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To assert to-day that the age of men and ·cities should be esti mated, rather by the march of events than by the lapse of time. is to merely utter a truism~ There are tapestries now·hanging in the palaces of Venice, that have been undisturbed since the V ene tian Dandolo carried the walls of Constantinople. How little ot change has each succeeding half-century wrought in the apart ments which now display the faded furnishings of a long-departed Doge! And yet, in the purview of history how venerable was the royal prophet of Israel in the Assyrian Court, who had exchanged the captivity of his childhood for the government of a province, and survived the rise and fall of three dynasties, whe11 Cyrus e!l tered the Babylonian capital by the bed of the Euphrates ! By the transit of tim'e merely, Chicago may be counted as yet young, but she is really old in the measure of her experience. Dismissing for the moment the charge · which is generally, and possibly justly, brought. against her citizens, that they are prone to exaggerate the rapidity of her growth and the extent of her development, these are yet facts which -challenge investigation. Here is a city of over half a miliion of inhabitants where, fifty years ago, was a morass, untenanted and almost untenantable. The great concentration of human energies requisite to effect such a rapid metan1orphosis is difficult of realization. No better illus tration of the rapidity of succession of events within this lin1ited period can be found than in the fact that an experience of the early days of Chicago has come_ to be regarded with much of the veneration that attaches to a :.remote antiquity. And yet the child who first saw the light in the infancy of the city, should to day be only in the meridian of life. I purpose to present a brief sketch of the pioneers in this field - the predecessors of the large body of medical men who are now engaged in the practice of their profession in this great metropolis. The paucity and imperfection of these details are largely due to the difficulty inseparabie from their collection. The early history of Chicago, and the first records of its medi- 4 EARLY MEDICAL CHICAGO. cal men and practice, are intimately associated with its old fort. • Even as early as the treaty of Greenville, 0., which is dated August 3, 1795, there is son1e reference to a fort, built at the junction of the lake and the river.~ This was, however, a small. stock~de. erected for the protection of French tr3:ders, ~t t~e point where· the. north and south branches · of · the river unite, ·some remains of which were still to be seen in the year 1818. Fort Dearbomt was built by the United States Government in I 804, and was provided with a subterranean passage and sally port, extending from the parade-ground to the river. t The Indian ·name, which it bequeathed to the City, is variously inter preted as referring to the wild onion or the Role-cat; but the natives themselves asserted that it was -the title of an Indian chief who had been drowned. in the river. In,:e manuscript l~tter of M. de Ligney, at Green Bay, to M. de · tte, among the Illi nois, dated in I 7 2 6, the nan1e is spelled "Chicagoux." § The narrative of the massacre at the Fort by the Indians, in 1812, has been detailed in such fulness, that it can not find a place here. It is now a matter of historical record. The ac count given by Mrs. Helm, however, in the very readable volume of Mrs. Kinzie, II is interesting in this connec;tion, as it relates in part to the surgeon of the fort-Dr. Isaac V. Van Voorhees.~ . It appears from Mrs. Helm's narrative, that Dr. Van Voorhees came up to her_ during the very hottest part of the engagement. He was severely wounded, having received a ball in the leg, and * Sketches of the Country on the Northern Route, from Belleville, Ill., to the city of. New York, and back by the Ohio Valley, with a sketch of the Crystal Palace. Jno. Reynolds. Belleville. 1854, +In the papers of Mr. John H. Kinzie, and according to the statement of Mrs.· Gen. Whistler, lately in Chicago, it appears that this fort was called by the name of Gen. Dearborn, as well as its successor. Mr. Kinzie's papers were destroyed in the Great Fire, which consumed the library of the Chicago Historical Society. • ::: The fort was then occupied by fifty men and armed with three pieces of artillery, transported thither on the U. S. schooner Tracy, Dorr, master. This vessel did not cross the bar and enter the river, but anchored half a mile from the shore and dischar~oo its freight by boats, attracting the pres ence of some 2000 Indians, who came to view the "big canoe with wings." (See Chicago and its Suburbs, by Everett Chamberl_in. Chi,;ago. 1874- Also, Chicago Antiquities, No. 2, by H. H. Hurlbut, Esq. Chicago. 1875.) '§ The name is also spelled by ~arious authorities, Chikajo, Checagua, and Chekagua.. (See Frauquelin's map, 1684-) II Wau-bun; or "the Early Day" iii the Northwest. By Mrs. Jno. H. ·Kinzie. New York and Chicago. 1857. ,r His name is also given Voorhees, Voorhes, and Voorhis. See "My Own Times." By John Reynolds, Ill. 1855. Also, "Annals of the West.1' J. R. ~b~c~.. Pittsbu~gh. 1857. EARLY :MEDICAL CHICAGO~ :;- his horse had also been shot under him. Every muscle of his ·face -was quivering with agony. S01ne conversation ensued be tween the two, when, writes Mrs. Helm, ~'a young Indian raised his ton1ahawk at me. By springing aside, I avoided the blow which was intended for my skull, but which alighted on my shoul der. I seized him around the neck, and while exerting my ut1uost strength to get possession of his scalping-knife, which hung from a scabbard over his breast, I was dragged from his grasp by another and an older Indian. The latter bore me, struggling and resisting, to the lake. Notwithstanding the rapidity with which I was hurried along, I recognized, as I passed them, the lifeless re mains of the unfortunate surgeon.· Some n1urderous tomahawk had stretched him upon the very spot where I had last .seen him." I have purposely omitted the conversation which is reported to have occurred between the two, and which is exactly repeated in almost every account of the massacre, since it reflects but little credit upon the· wounded officer. It represents him as in an agony of terror, and his companion as reproaching him for his pusillanimity.