Category: History - American
In preparing for publication the following sketch of the famous Transylvania Medical Department and its professors, I have placed in foot-notes, as far as practicable, my own additions to the text, so as to avoid making any radical change in my father's manuscript.
On one occasion, having been brought into a somewhat febrile condition by fatigue in a botanical excursion in hot weather, and having full faith in the statements of Doctor Cook...
7. Chapter 7In consequence of the death of Professor John Eberle early in the session of 1837-38, Doctor Mitchell was required to fill both this and his own chair during the session, an ard...
14. Chapter 14"It is believed from this view of it that for its vigorous prosperity and the rapid increase of its classes, the Medical School of Transylvania is without a parallel. Certainly...
6. Chapter 6While thus engaged, Professor Peter was induced by Doctor Yandell, Professor of Chemistry, to accept the duties of adjunct to the chair of Chemistry, a position made vacant by t...
3. Chapter 3Many circumstances in these early times favored the establishment of a medical college in Lexington. Not only had that city been recognized for many years as a great center of p...
1. Chapter 1In preparing for publication the following sketch of the famous Transylvania Medical Department and its professors, I have placed in foot-notes, as far as practicable, my own ad...
2. Chapter 2Widely known as a successful practitioner and a gentleman of great benevolence, disinterestedness, and affability, he was also one of the medical preceptors of Kentucky's distin...
4. Chapter 4Although his taste and talents inclined him to the legal profession he was induced to study medicine, somewhat against his own judgment. His medical education was obtained in Ph...
9. Chapter 9Was born in Lexington, Kentucky, October 18, 1810, the only son of Reverend Stephen and Amelia Stout Chipley, the forefathers of both of whom were pioneers of Lexington. Doctor...
8. Chapter 8Here he taught with great success until called to the chair of Materia Medica and General Pathology in the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati in 1847. During the vacation months...
13. Chapter 13Short, Doctor Charles W. 21, 40, 57, *79, 93 Biographical sketch of 78 As church member 82 As a lecturer 80, 81 As a teacher 93 Born 78 Character of 78, 79 Dean of Faculty 81 De...
12. Chapter 12Lawson, Doctor Leonidas, biographical sketch of 130 As practitioner 131 Graduate in Transylvania 130 In Kentucky School of Medicine 131 In University of Louisiana 131 Practice i...
11. Chapter 11Blythe, Reverend James 4, 7, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 35 Acting President of Transylvania University 12 Appointed Professor of Chemistry in Medical Department 12 Died 12 Presiden...
10. Chapter 10+--------------------+-------------+------------+------------+ | | |Theory and |Institutes, | | Year.|Surgery.| Anatomy. |Practice of |Physiology, |Obstretics, | | | |Medicine....
15. Chapter 15[Footnote 105: "In 1856, the Trustees of Morrison College came to the legislature of Kentucky and offered all the buildings, the library, the apparatus, and grounds, which were...