Part 3

Forty professional men were present May 1, 1909, at the Colonial Hotel, where the fourth annual reunion and banquet of the Pennsylvania Branch of the General Alumni Association of the University of Maryland was held. Dr. Eugene F. Cordell was one of the guests; others were Dr. Charles P. Noble, president of the Pennsylvania Branch, and Dr. J. C. Beale, secretary and treasurer, both of Philadelphia.

The banquet was held in the new assembly room, which was tastefully decorated with plants, flowers and the colors of the University. The banquet committee consisted of Drs. Z. C. Myers and S. K. Pfaltzgraff, of York; J. S. Classen and J. C. Beale, of Philadelphia.

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It is reported that Dr. John Cox Keaton, class of 1907, of Georgia, has been shot in the abdomen by an irate husband.

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At the annual meeting of the Cecil County Medical Society, held at Elkton, Dr. St. Clair Spruill spoke on “Surgical Conditions of the Right Side of the Abdomen.”

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The New York Medical Journal says concerning the April 13th meeting of the Philadelphia Pediatric Society: “The paper of the evening was read by Dr. Compton Riely, of Baltimore, on 'The Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Pott's Disease.'”

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The following of our alumni are upon the staff of the Hospital for the Women of Maryland, John street and Lafayette avenue, Baltimore: Dr. Charles H. Riley, Dr. J. Mason Hundley, Dr. Archibald C. Harrison, Dr. Robert T. Wilson, Dr. Samuel T. Earle and Dr. George W. Dobbin. Dr. G. W. Billups, class of 1906, is resident physician.

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Mr. and Mrs. William T. Schultze, of 822 Newington avenue, Baltimore, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Dr. Anna D. Schultze, a graduate of the Woman's Medical College and resident physician of the Good Samaritan Hospital, to Dr. John R. Abercrombie, dean of the Woman's Medical College, a graduate of the University of Maryland of the class of 1895, and at present instructor in diseases of the skin, University of Maryland. No date has been fixed for the wedding.

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At the coming meeting of the American Medical Association Dr. I. S. Stone, of Washington, will read a paper on “Some Minor Gynecologic Matters Which Are Often Overlooked.”

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Dr. Charles H. Medders, of Baltimore, who sued the Western Maryland Railroad for $5,000 for services rendered in a collision four years ago, was rendered a verdict for $150.

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At the annual meeting of the Montgomery County Medical Association, held in Rockville, April 20, 1909, the following of our alumni were elected to office for the ensuing year: Vice president, Dr. Wm. L. Lewis, of Kensington; secretary-treasurer, Dr. John L. Lewis, of Bethesda.

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The Baltimore City Medical Society has elected our alumni to the following offices for the ensuing year: President, Dr. Jacob Hartman; board of censors, Dr. Randolph Winslow.

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Dr. G. Lane Taneyhill, of Baltimore, is a member of the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association from Maryland at the present meeting of the American Medical Association, at Atlantic City.

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Dr. A. E. Ewens, of Atlantic City, was a member of the Committee on Section Meetings at the recent meeting of the American Medical Association. Dr. Daniel Jenifer also had the honor and pleasure of serving upon this committee. Dr. Jenifer was also a member of the Committee on Post-office and Telephone. Dr. A. E. Ewens also served on the Committee on Badges.

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Dr. Thomas A. R. Keech, class of 1856, and Mrs. Keech, of Washington, D. C., celebrated at their home, 416 B street, northeast, on April 13, 1909, the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage. The house was beautifully decorated with cut and potted plants. A collation was served. The family are of English descent, having emigrated and settled in Southern Maryland about 1750. Dr. Keech is a son of the late Rev. John Reeder and Susan P. Keech.

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Dr. John Herbert Bates, class of 1907, of Forest Park, Baltimore, a former resident physician of Bay View Hospital, and until recently a resident physician at the Church Home and Infirmary, has located at 4002 Main avenue, Forest Park.

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The third annual banquet of the General Alumni Association of the University of Maryland was held Thursday, April 22, 1909, at the Eutaw House, Baltimore. About 90 were present. The affair was a thoroughly enjoyable occasion, but more enthusiasm would have been evident if more of the members of the various faculties had been present. The Pharmaceutical Department, with less professors than the other departments, had most members present. The speeches were witty and instructive, and teemed with expressions of loyalty to the University. As oft iterated and reiterated, this body is the only real live alumni body at the University of Maryland. It has been doing since its inception, and is still doing, and if the University ever be rejuvenated much of the credit will be due to the constant agitation of this body for a larger and better university. Most alumni banquets consist of a feed, good, better or worse, as it might happen to be, and a slew of speech artists of more or less renown, who bubble over with big words of encouragement and prediction, but rest on their oars here. Indeed, the societies exist for a banquet once a year and a cyclone of hot air. What do words accomplish? Nothing. It is action that the University of Maryland needs, and more than anything else men of action—strong men, broad-minded men, men who can subordinate their success to the success of the institution, men in every sense of the word. I am glad to say the General Alumni Association has an abundance of men of such character among its membership who are doing something for the good of the Old University, and who have an object in view. What is this object? The creating of ways and means for the betterment of the University.

At the business meeting immediately preceding the banquet the following recommendation of the special committee appointed for the purpose of formulating a plan for the participation of the alumni in the management of the University was adopted unanimously.

The plan provides that the Board of Regents of the University shall be enlarged by the addition of five members, one each from the five departments, who shall have had their degrees for 10 years or more. It provides for the election of a committee on nominations, to consist of the president of the association and one representative from each of the five departments. This committee shall select three representatives from each of the five departments as nominees for the alumni in good standing in the association to vote upon. Votes may be cast in person or by mail. After the election of the five members of the council they shall determine by lot who are to serve for one, two, three, four or five years, respectively.

Any vacancy is to be filled by the remaining members of the Alumni Council from the department from which the member was originally chosen. The secretary of the General Alumni Association shall act as the secretary of the alumni regents, who shall select their own chairman for one-year terms.

The committee consisted of the following well-known alumni of the five departments of the University:

Medical—Dr. B. Merrill Hopkinson and Dr. E. F. Cordell.

Pharmacy—Dr. John F. Hancock and Dr. J. Emory Bond.

Dental—Dr. L. H. Farinholt and Dr. Joseph C. Heuisler.

Law—Messrs. B. Howard Haman and Jas. W. Bowers, Jr.

Academic (St. John's College)—Dr. J. Frederick Adams and Dr. A. L. Wilkinson.

No further action, however, can be taken in the matter until approved or vetoed by the Board of Regents.

The president, John B. Thomas, Phar. D., introduced the toastmaster, Henry P. Hynson, Phar. D., who was in a particularly bright and witty mood. The speakers were: Hon. J. Barry Mahool, the Mayor of Baltimore; John C. Hemmeter, M. D.; Addison Mullikin, Esq., LL. B.; Charles Caspari, Phar. D.; Joshua W. Hering, M. D., Comptroller of the State of Maryland and a graduate of the class of 1855, of Westminster, Md.

Those who were not present do not know what they missed. It was a live banquet, something doing every minute, and the committee in charge of the arrangements are to be congratulated upon the thoroughness with which they accomplished their task.

Committee—T. O. Heatwole, chairman; Oregon Milton Dennis, LL. B.; Eugene Hodson, Phar. G.; Arthur M. Shipley, M. D.

Among those present were: William Tarun, Dr. J. W. Bird, J. Huff, Dr. Compton Reilly, J. Cromwell, Dr. Randolph Winslow, Dr. R. B. Hayes, C. V. Mace, L. M. Allen, Dr. R. H. P. Bay, Dr. I. J. Spear, H. H. Richards, Dr. J. F. Hawkins, Dr. W. V. S. Levy, T. Marshall West, S. W. Moore, I. H. Davis, Dr. C. V. Matthews, F. J. Valentine, E. B. Howell, A. P. Scarborough, G. F. Dean, G. A. Bunting, John C. Uhler, C. S. Grindall, Dr. J. C. Hemmeter, Dr. A. M. Shipley, John Henry Keene, Dr. Robert L. Mitchell, Judge H. Stockbridge, N. H. D. Cox, Dr. J. H. Holland, Dr. Charles Caspari, Jr., H. P. Hynson, F. V. Rhodes, J. E. Hengst, O. C. Harris, A. S. Binswanger, Dr. St. Clair Spruill, Dr. E. F. Cordell, Dr. Nathan Winslow, Dr. J. M. Hundley, Daniel Base, Dr. Charles E. Sadtler, Addison Mullikin, H. W. Jones, Dr. G. Lane Taneyhill, Dr. L. B. Henkel, Jr., Dr. I. G. Dickson, F. J. S. Gorgas, Dr. T. O. Heatwole, J. W. Bowers, Jr., Dr. J. W. Hering, Alfred E. Kemp, Oscar B. Thomas, J. B. Thomas, Eugene W. Hodson, John F. Hancock, W. M. Fouch, D. R. Millard, Emory Bond, C. A. Volkmar, Frank Black, H. P. Hynson, J. W. Westcott, Dr. C. H. Medders, B. Elliott, Dr. Eugene Cordell, Leroy Oldham, A. R. Dohme, B. A. Lillich, Oregon Milton Dennis, L. W. Farinholt, T. E. Latimer, Ambrose Murphy, Dr. Henry Kennard, Dr. Herbert Zepp.

The “Clinic,” the year book of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, which has just been issued, is dedicated to the memory of the late Dr. Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, who gave his life that another's might be saved. Dr. Trimble was a graduate of the University of Maryland, class of 1884, and at the time of his death was Professor of Anatomy in the College of Physicians and Surgeons.

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Dr. A. J. Edwards, class of 1898, of Bristol, Tenn., is spending a few days around the Hospital renewing old acquaintances.

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Dr. Luther Bare, of Westminster, Md., was a recent visitor to the University Hospital.

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The banquet of the Medical Alumni Association will be held on the evening of May 31, 1909.

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Dr. and Mrs. B. Merrill Hopkinson, who have been spending the week at the Hotel Chamberlin, Old Point Comfort, Va., have returned to the city.

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The University of Maryland baseball team defeated the Midshipmen on the Naval Academy grounds recently by the score of 2 to 0. Anderson, the box artist, struck out twenty of the middies. The team this year has been more than successful, and compares favorably with the teams of the larger colleges. It is undoubtedly the premier team of Baltimore this year, and in any other institution would arouse untold enthusiasm by its notable victories.

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Dr. Fitz Randolph Winslow, class of 1906, of Hinton, Va., paid a flying visit to the Hospital recently.

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Dr. J. W. Hering, class of 1855, of Westminster and State Comptroller, who has been visiting his son and daughter-in-law, Dr. and Mrs. Joseph T. Hering, at the St. Paul, Baltimore, has returned to his home, in Westminster.

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Amongst those who responded to toasts at the recent banquet of the local branch of the Haverford College Alumni Association was Dr. Henry M. Thomas.

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Dr. Fitz Randolph Winslow writes from Hinton, Va., in the Valley of the Shenandoah, the garden spot of Virginia, and for picturesque scenery unexcelled in no part of the world, that he is doing nicely. He has seen three goitres and heard of a wonderful cure for the same from an old mountain woman. She took her own medicine, and claims to have been benefited, so he gives the recipe: Put your hands behind your back, bend over and take a horse's head between your teeth. Unfortunately, he forgot to find out the statuo quo of the horse, so you might try the dead or the quick, as suits your convenience. Her goitre is still very apparent, but, sad to relate, she has no teeth left with which to finish the job. This is only one specimen of the gross ignorance and superstition of the hill people. They treat or mistreat themselves often when ill principally by making teas of various herbs, such as boneset, etc. Skunk oil is a panacea both internally and externally. He expects no respectable disease can live in the same neighborhood with such an odoriferous medicament.

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Dr. John Chaplain Travers, class of 1895, of Cambridge, who recently left for the Philippines, where he will enter the government service, gave a farewell entertainment before leaving at the residence of Capt. James C. Leonard.

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Dr. J. Clement Clark, superintendent of the Springfield State Hospital, presided at the third meeting of the Maryland Psychiatric Society, which was held at the Sykesville institution. Among those present were: Drs. J. C. Clarke, Marshall L. Price, Wm. F. Wohwartz, R. R. Norris, F. J. Flannery.

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It gives us pleasure to announce that Dr. Charles H. Mayo, of Rochester, Minn., one of the renowned Mayo brothers, has accepted the invitation of the Faculty of Physic to deliver a course of lectures on diseases on the thyroid gland in the fall.

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Dr. Lee Cohen, of Baltimore, will read a paper at the coming meeting of the American Medical Association on “Post Operative Tonsillar Bleeding: Its Surgical Control, with Mention of Cases;” Dr. R. L. Randolph, of Baltimore, on “Rodent Ulcer of the Cornea;” Dr. Samuel Theobald, of Baltimore, on “Reflex Aural Neurosis Caused by Eye Strain, with Report of Cases.”

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One of the marked developments of the Democratic State Central Committee was a practically unanimous sentiment in favor of the renomination of Dr. Joshua W. Hering, class of 1855, for State Comptroller. State and county leaders were outspoken in their opinion that Dr. Hering's popularity throughout the state, as well as his excellent record as Comptroller, make his nomination virtually a matter of course.

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The condition of Dr. R. A. Warren, of Hot Springs, Va., class of 1907, who was operated on recently at the University Hospital for appendicitis, is reported to be favorable.

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Dr. Randolph Winslow desires to acknowledge cards from Drs. M. Zaki and M. Teufik, 166 Mohamed Aly street, Cairo, Egypt. These are two of our popular Egyptian students, and are located as noted above, where they have met with unexpected success. Drs. Heilig, Moose, Kerr and Pearlstine, four of our recent Southern alumni, paid their respects to the University recently. The three former are located in North Carolina, the latter in South Carolina.

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The last regular meeting of the University of Maryland Medical Association was held in the amphitheatre of the University Hospital, Wednesday, April 21, 1909, and the program was as follows: 1. “Preliminary Training Necessary for Those Contemplating the Study of Medicine,” Dr. Randolph Winslow; 2. “The Teaching of Therapeutics,” Dr. C. W. Mitchell; “The Teaching of the Specialties,” Dr. Hiram Woods.

The meeting was well attended and the papers were both instructive and interesting. Dr. A. M. Shipley, the president, occupied the chair. This is the last meeting of the society until the fall. Dr. Woods' paper appears elsewhere in this number.

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Dr. Richard H. Johnston, of Baltimore, will read a paper on “Benign Tumors of the Turbinate Bodies Clinically and Pathologically Considered,” at the coming meeting of the American Medical Association.

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The Council on Medical Education of the American Medical Association in its annual report has this to say concerning college mergers:

Another encouraging fact to be noted is the mergers being made among medical schools whereby stronger schools are resulting. Notably in Indiana, all of the regular schools in the state merged into the medical department of Indiana University, while in Kentucky all of the medical schools merged into the University of Louisville. In Cincinnati the two regular schools merged into the University of Cincinnati; in Minnesota Hamline merged into the medical department of the University of Minnesota.

There are numerous other cities where mergers might be brought about if those interested in general education and those in medical education in each city would work together to secure them. For example, if all the medical colleges of any large city, such as Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis or others, could be merged into one great university medical school, such as are to be found in Berlin, Paris or Vienna, it would be of the greatest possible advantage to medical education in America.

In the evolution of general and medical education in this country it is becoming more and more evident that a well-rounded university needs a strong medical department, and it is now equally clear that a medical school cannot reach the highest stage of its development except as the medical department of a strong university. It is evident that within a few years the medical schools of this country will, with few exceptions, be the medical departments of universities. Fortunately for the medical school, the university needs the medical school quite as much as the medical school needs the university, so that almost any independent medical school of real merit can secure desirable union with a university. And this change will solve most of our present problems in medical education.

Since our last conference there have been five important mergers of medical colleges by which nine medical schools are replaced by four stronger ones. These mergers were as follows:

1. At Louisville, Ky., the Louisville and Hospital Medical College, the Kentucky School of Medicine and the University of Louisville Medical Department united, retaining the name of the University of Louisville Medical Department. This leaves but one regular medical college in Louisville, where there were five colleges two years ago. As a direct result of this merger, the school has received $25,000 from the city of Louisville, and steps have been taken to build a new city hospital, which is to be largely under the control of the medical school.

2. At Cincinnati the merger between the Medical College of Ohio and the Miami Medical College has been completed, the new school to be the Medical Department of the University of Cincinnati. The building of an enormous new city hospital has already been started near the university campus, and a new medical college building will be erected adjoining this hospital. The outlook for this new school is very encouraging.

3. The Keokuk Medical College, College of Physicians and Surgeons, located at Keokuk, Iowa, has turned all its property and good will over to the Drake University, College of Medicine, at Des Moines, Iowa.

Amalgamation of the Cooper Medical College with Leland Stanford University is announced. Henceforth the San Francisco institution will be designated the School of Medicine of Stanford University. The affiliation was given approval sometime ago, and it only remained for the board of trustees of the University to formally accept the gift.

Why can't the independent medical colleges of Baltimore come together? Such an event would accrue to the best interests of all concerned, and would greatly tend to eliminate Baltimore as one of the dark spots upon the medical educational horizon.

NURSES WIN DIPLOMAS.

In spotless white and amid a bower of flowers, 16 pretty young women were handed their diplomas yesterday as graduates of the University Hospital School for Nurses by the Dean, Prof. R. Dorsey Coale. There were 17 nurses to graduate this year, but one of them, Miss Catherine M. Dukes, is seriously ill and could not attend.

After the conferring of degrees Dr. Arthur M. Shipley gave the young nurses advice as to their future. The opening prayer was delivered by Rev. Edwin B. Niver, rector of Christ Protestant Episcopal Church, and benediction was pronounced by Rev. Dr. Hemsley, of Oakland, Md.

The hall of the University was crowded with friends and relatives of the graduates. It was decorated with carnations and potted palms, and around the pillars was twined black and red bunting, the University colors. The nurses, preceded by Professor Coale and Dr. Shipley, entered the hall in pairs, carrying bouquets of Marguerites.

Dr. Shipley said that much of the nurses' training had been under his supervision, and he felt a personal interest in them. Women, he said, invariably scared him, but someone informed the physician that was not always so, for Dr. Shipley is to become a benedict today.

“You have chosen a work that is second to none in the world,” said Dr. Shipley. “You have before you possibilities that are almost limitless. You are on the threshold of a life that is to be of your own making, for the chief danger of the individual nurse is drifting. It is so easy to forget the old-time standards and call them old-fashioned. Old-fashioned they may be, but they have stood the test of generations of correct living and thinking.”

At night the graduates were given a farewell reception and dance by the undergraduates.

Dispensary Report, April, 1908, to April, 1909. OF UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

Department. New Cases. Old Cases. Surgical 1,703 4,448 Medical 1,709 3,199 Genito Urinary 765 2,933 Nervous 399 1,971 Women 733 1,279 Stomach 421 1,108 Throat and Nose 622 1,039 Children 761 997 Eye and Ear 712 903 Skin 473 907 Tuberculosis 190 703 Orthopedic 31 120 —————— —————— 8,519 19,609

Total new cases 8,519 Total old cases 19,609 —————— Grand total 28,128

JOHN HOUFF, M. D., Dispensary Physician.

DISPENSARY PHYSICIANS AND CHIEFS OF CLINIC.

=Medical Department=—Dr. J. M. Craighill, Chief of Clinic; Drs. W. H. Smith, G. C. Lockard, J. F. O'Mara, R. C. Metzel, H. J Maldeis, A. B. Hayes, H. D. McCarty, E. S. Perkins, J. F. Adams, H. L. Sinsky, Clarke, Todd.

=Surgical Department=—Dr. John G. Jay, Chief of Clinic; Drs. M. T. Cromwell, T. A. Tompkins, Jr., J. F. Adams, J. H. Smith, R. B. Hayes.