U. s. MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL. — EXTRA. 
VALEDICTORY ADDRESS 
TO THE 
GRADUATING CLASS 
OF 
%) a Ini twit n t\ Ml tdicnl (t-oitm. 
OF CHICAGO, 
MARCH 20, 1873. 
By Temple S. Hoyne, M. D. 
Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. 
WITH 
THE PRESIDENT'S AKDHESS, THE REPORT OF THE DEAN, 
WO CATALOGUE OF STUDENTS AND GRADUATES. 
CHICAGO: ) 
Sixn.Ain & Rt.air, Rook nnd Job Printers, 182 & 184 Clark Street, 
1873. VALEDICTORY ADDRESS. 
(rnit/emen am/ Ladies of (hr (Graduating Class*: 
It is an established custom of presenting you, on occasions 
like the present, a parting address; and the very pleasant rela- 
tions which have existed between your instructors ami yourselves, 
renders the performance of this duty, which lias been delegated 
to me, a pleasure rather than a task. 
You have just received from the hands of the worthy President 
of the College, the hard-earned reward, to which your constant, 
unremitting and assiduous labor justly entitles you ;—a reward 
which bestows upon you the title of Doctors of Medicine; it en- 
dows you with all tin* rights, power and privileges pertaining to 
the degree, as well as imposes upon yon the duties and respons- 
ibilities of our noble profession. You no longer retain the title 
of students, hut are physicians, equal in rank and possessing the 
same rights and privileges as your former professors. 
We have imparted to von all that can he taught in the lecture 
room ; we have shown you all the principal operations in surgery ; 
we have brought before you interesting clinical cases, and even 
obstetrical cases have not been wanting, to add to your instruction ; 
and in fact, your studies, as far as we are concerned, are finished. 
Hut are your studies actually finished ? Are you to cease all 
study from this time? Have vou learned all that is known con- 
cerning medicine ? Are books now to he thrown aside as useless ? 
Hy no means, ladies and gentlemen ; your studies have really 
just begun, for new discoveries are being made constantly, old 
theories are thrown aside as new truths are developed ; every 4 
branch of medical science is constantly being extended, and be 
who ceases his studies in these days of patient and earnest re- 
search, lie who fails to keep himself fully informed of the pro- 
gress of medical science, quickly becomes a monument of the past. 
In truth, a life-time can be devoted to the study of either of the 
branches taught in the college curriculum, and the investigator 
would not discover all that is to be learned. 
The medical profession occupies a much higher rank in Eng- 
land and other European countries than in the United States. 
The reason of this is that the term of study has been longer and 
much more complete. In England, the medical course embraces 
a period of four years ; in Germany, from four to five years. In 
Sweden, three courses of lectures are requisite, when the student, 
if he passes a satisfactory examination, is licensed to pursue his 
profession ; but before he receives the degree of M. 1)., lie must 
practice in a hospital one year, and spend one year abroad in study. 
In France, the medical student must attend four courses of lec- 
tures, and practice two years in a hospital before he receives his 
diploma. Foreign medical institutions do not, as many of our 
American colleges do, go upon the principle that a “short horse 
is soon curried. The diplomas of our institutions are not gen- 
erally recognized abroad for the reason that the instruction is not 
as thorough ; you may well feel proud, therefore, of the diploma 
which the trustees of Hahnemann Medical College have just 
bestowed upon you, through their President, and which you now 
hold in your hands, for it is recognized in England, Germany, 
Australia and Canada. 
It has been the constant aim of your alma mater, for the past 
five or six years, in common with the best institutions of this 
country, to advance the standard of medical education. From 
year to year the college curriculum has constantly been extended ; 
the best men selected for the different chairs, by the trustees; the 
separate branches more thoroughly taught and better illustrated; 
the examinations more and more rigid. The past year, as you 
will bear witness, the session was lengthened to twenty-four weeks, 
instead of nineteen, as heretofore ; the clinics were more numer- 5 
ous and of better quality; the course more thorough and com- 
prehensive; the different chairs were better filled than ever be- 
fore ; and the examinations strict enough to satisfy the most ex- 
acting. 
The suggestions made bv the committee on medical education, 
in their report to the American Institute of Homoeopathy, at its 
meeting in this city, have been complied with, viz : the college has 
a suitable building, with labratory, museum, and ample material 
for illustrating the different branches ; the course of study is 
graded ; the chairs are filled with aide men ; and the college has 
a corps of volunteer lecturers. 
In addition to these suggestions, in order to afford the medical 
student all the advantages of a foreign medical education, the 
trustees and faculty have organized and maintained, for the past 
two years, a fully equipped hospital, containing upwards of forty 
beds. It is contemplated enlarging the hospital the present year, 
increasing the capacity to eighty beds; thus furnishing to the stu- 
dent better facilities for studying the different phases of disease. 
In order to raise the standard of medical education still higher, 
all medical students should receive a liberal education before com- 
mencing the study of medicine. This has not as yet been en- 
forced, except in a single instance, but the time will soon come 
when its enforcement will become a necessity in all first-class 
colleges. It is our intention to continue to advance, until 
Hahnemann Medical College shall stand second to no other insti- 
tution in this country, and our diplomas shall be eagerly sought 
for by all earnest and thorough students throughout the United 
States. This much for ourselves. 
In bidding von farewell, this evening, your alma mater wishes 
each and every one of you success. How shall you obtain it? 
••Tis not in mortals to coinninml success, 
lint we’ll do more, Sempronins ; we'll deserve it.” 
Success in medicine, as well as in other walks of life, depends 
almost entirely upon the individual, and upon the observance of 
certain qualities, which, if not heeded, render its attainment 
almost, if not quite, impossible. 6 
John Hunter, the celebrated anatomist, received but little edu- 
cation until he was twenty years of age. Up to this time, it had 
been a difficult task to teach him to read and write. Linnaeus, 
the founder of modern botany, was the son of a clergyman, and 
originally intended for the church, but he so neglected his theo- 
logical studies that he was taken from school, and apprenticed to 
a shoemaker. Moliere could scarcely read and write when he 
was fourteen, at which time he worked with his father, who was 
an upholsterer; but on going to the theatre one evening, his pas- 
sion for literature was so excited, that he compelled his father to 
send him to college. Sir William Ilerschel, after working four- 
teen to sixteen hours a day in giving music lessons, devoted his 
nights to mathematical studies. Hogarth acquired his knowledge 
of drawing while Avorking as an apprentice to an engraving 
silver-smith. These men deserved and attained success. 
To insure success, one must have method in everything. It is 
well for the physician to divide the day into four or five parts, 
devoting, as time will permit, two or more hours in the morning 
for study. Buhver, the novelist, wrote nearly seventy novels 
during his life, and he never wrote over three hours a day ; but 
during those hours, he gave his entire attention to his subject, 
allowing nothing to distract his mind from his task. Too much 
or too long continued study deranges the functional activity of the 
brain, as over-eating, in time, impairs the digestive powers of the 
stomach. 
Having allotted the first portion of the day to study, then 
should follow the morning office hour, which should be strictly 
kept. It is seldom that a physician is obliged to be absent during 
his office hours, if his business is arranged methodically. There 
is a great advantage in it in this respect also, that your patients, 
finding you regular and prompt, will soon fall into the same habit, 
and not expect to find you in at any time except during the regu- 
lar hours. 
After the office hour comes the time for visiting patients. By 
always arranging your route before starting out, much unneces- 
sary travel will be avoided, and the same ground will have to be 
gone over but once. When possible, inform your patient at what 7 
hour lie may expect you, so as to save him much fretting and 
worrying, and yourself perhaps a half hour’s waiting in the par- 
lor. Visit your patients as often as the severity of the case de- 
mands, remembering at the same time, that too frequent visits 
often hinder instead of promoting a cure, as one is apt to change 
a medicine that is really doing good, for some trivial reason. 
Study each case carefully, for no two patients with the same dis- 
ease, present exactly the same symptoms, or are affected precisely 
alike, and may require entirely different treatment. 
Hence it is, (and this the public should, and usually do know,) 
that the physician who has had charge of a family for some time, 
will succeed better than a new comer; for he has learned the tem- 
perament, habits and idiosyncrasies of every member of the fam- 
ily, and from actual experience, knows what remedies are host 
suited to eacli individual case. 
When you make an appointment with a brother physician, be 
sure to meet him promptly at the time stated ; otherwise you rob 
him as much as though you stole his purse from his pocket, and 
furthermore, you are apt to lose your reputation as a good busi- 
ness man. Having completed your visits, you can conclude the 
day with an evening office hour. 
By adopting and strictly adhering to some such course as is 
here marked out, you will have every day some leisure moments, 
and find time, which the unmethodical physician never does, for 
social pleasures, medical meetings, or the writing up of interesting 
cases which you may meet with in your practice. 
Collect your bills regularly. Physicians are usually bad col- 
lectors, and that is perhaps one reason why they book so many bad 
debts. The butcher, baker or grocer has but little trouble in col- 
lecting his bill monthly from the same persons who will neglect or 
refuse to pay yours. It is true that at the end of the month or 
quarter you will find perhaps but little that is collectible, but 
collect all you can ; the machinery needs oil or it must stop. It 
is said that physicians’ bills are the hardest ones to pay, but from 
this winter’s experience, I think the plumber’s will have to be 
substituted for the physician’s. Your experience will probably 8 
tally with that of others, that this is not one of the money making 
professions. If you have entered it for the purpose of making a 
fortune, I certainly advise you to give it up at once. It may be 
you will work hard and unceasingly, night and day, in fair and 
foul weather, earn a good deal of money perhaps, collect but 
little, and probably die poor—but with the supreme satisfaction 
of having done your whole duty. 
You must be diligent, patient, earnest, honest, and thoughtful; 
without these qualifications success will elude your grasp. By 
diligence you will accumulate much that is valuable both to your- 
selves and patients. Earnestness is the great secret, and many con- 
tend, the only secret of success. No man can attain a high de- 
gree of success in any pursuit, unless his whole heart is in it. 
The earnest physician does not lounge about in the sick room, 
complaining of over-work and fatigue, devoting more time to his 
own ailments than to those of his patient; but he loves his pro- 
fession, or he has decidedly mistaken his calling. The earnest 
physician is regardless of self; “ in the midst of raging pestilence 
or fearful destitution ; in the noon-tide heat, or amid the chills of 
evening, by night and by day, at all times, and in every season, 
his post is with the sick and afflicted." “Above all things, be 
consistent and honest, and thus maintain your own self-respect, 
secure the confidence and esteem of the community in which you 
live, and command the admiration of even your professional oppo- 
nents." 
No one long places confidence in the physician who is not dili- 
gent in his pursuit of knowledge, thoughtful, earnest in his efforts 
to relieve pain and suffering, and honest and truthful in all his 
dealings with his fellow men. When your patient interrogates 
you about his condition, reply honestly to his questions, showing 
him the brightest side, and give him all the hope you truthfully 
can. I would not, however, have you he as abrupt and rude as 
the physician was, who, on entering the sick room, and ascertain- 
ing that the patient had hydrocephalus, said “madam, that child 
will die in twelve hours; send to my office to-morrow morning, 
and I will give you his death certificate." Sometimes the child 9 
does not die, and in either event, yon lose the respect and confi- 
dence of the family and friends, and ultimately of the entire com- 
munity in which you reside. 
The confidence of your patient is absolutely necessary, and can 
be retained only iti the manner I have cited, and not, as many 
imagine, by the relation of the most wonderful and astounding 
cures, and the liberal use of advertising circulars, in which one 
promises the cure of all diseases, and, in fact, almost asserts the 
power of omnipotence. With such bait, quacks catch fools. 
The secrets, which come to your knowledge in the sick room, 
are not to be related, not even to friends or relatives. They par- 
take of the confessional, and should be as rigidly and as sacredly 
kept. Your position is such that you necessarily become the 
confidant and confessor of your patients. To you is told all their 
fears, troubles, griefs, and sometimes even their wickedness, shame 
and crime—infirmities that are carefully concealed from all eyes 
but your own. You cannot betray such secrets without incurring 
the censure and detestation of all rightly-minded persons. It is 
always allowable to speak of cases; never of names. 
Treat the poor and afflicted kindly. 
“Tis n little thing 
To give a cup of water; yet its draught 
Of cool refreshment, drain’d by fever’d lips. 
May give a shock of pleasure to the frame 
More exquisite than when nectarean juice 
Renews the life of joy in happiest hours. 
Tis a little thing to speak a phrase 
Of common comfort, which by daily use 
lias almost lost its sense; yet on the ear 
Of him who thought to die unmourn'd, ’twill fall 
Like choicest music; till the gla/.ing eye 
With gentle tears; relax the knotted hand 
To know the bonds of fellowship again; 
And shed on the departing soul a sense 
More precious than the beuison of friends 
About the honored death bed of the rich. 
To him who else were lonely, that another 
Of the great family is near, and feels.” 
No other profession is so essentially benevolent and disinterested 
as our own ; no class of men are so severely taxed : the calls 
upon our time and purse are daily, and often greater than we can 
afford. Charity, which is always a virtue, becomes, in the physi- 
cian. an obligation and a duty. The true physician hears no voice 10 
but that of duty, and by far too frequently knows no reward, but 
the consciousness of having performed his work well. 
“Avoid prejudice on the one hand, and scepticism on the 
other"—the first is apt to make one a bigot, the latter, a medical in- 
fidel. “While unbounded credulity is the attribute of weak minds, 
which seldom think or reason at all, unlimited scepticism belongs 
only to those who make their own knowledge and observation the 
exclusive standard of probability. 
You should be calm and composed at all times, and under all 
circumstances, for should you lose your presence of mind at the 
time of a sudden emergency, you would not only forfeit the confi- 
dence of your patient, who perhaps watches your every movement, 
but might also endanger his life. 
Be gentlemen always. (The ladies are of course excepted.) A 
gentleman is civil, polite and kind to every one; he is never un- 
civil, boorish or clownish. He respects the feelings of the most 
sensitive, and never wilfully offends or injures anyone, whether 
clad in purple and fine linen or in the filthiest rags. Remember 
that he never speaks disrespectfully of his brother physician, even 
if he deserves it; if he can say nothing good of him, he is silent. 
You should at once, on reaching your future dwelling place, 
join the county or local medical society. Make it a point to at- 
tend every meeting ; you will always learn something new, and 
often obtain a hint or suggestion that will be of incalculable ben- 
efit to you. Subscribe for as many of the best medical journals 
as your purse will admit of, and as you receive them, from month 
to month, do not throw them into a corner, but read them care- 
fully. 
As all you have learned of medicine was freely given by the 
profession for your benefit, do you likewise communicate for their 
instruction, any new discovery, or interesting case that,may fall 
to vour lot. No one has a right to conceal from his confrereft 
anything which would be of benefit to them. 
You go forth from these walls not only as physicians, but as 
homoeopathic physicians. It is needless to say, do not be ashamed 
of the title. “ Every profession, every calling, honorably exer- 11 
vised is honorable, and there is nothing go vain as the vanity, 
nothing so pitiful as the pride which would conceal any external 
indication of a position we have no right to he ashamed of occu- 
pying. The time was when the homoeopathic physician was 
scorned and laughed at, not only by physicians of the regular or 
allopathic school, hut by the public generally, and even the edu- 
cated part of it. The reason of this most violent and bitter op- 
position was not so much the homoeopathic law. nimilia, but was 
based on the infinitesimal dose. Our opponents forgot, that the 
ipiantity of miasm floating in the air. sufficient to induce fevers 
or contagious diseases, could neither be weighed nor measured. 
And yet the medicine contained in what was called the infinit- 
esimal dose could be detected by a proper chemical analysis. 
I lomoeopathv seemed opposed to common sense, and old habits 
were hard to break up:—the people had been accustomed to med- 
icine by the quart or peck, and thought nothing less would answer. 
Many opposed it, although they thought there might be truth 
in it, for fear they should be ridiculed. Wm. C. Bryant said, 
“one of the worst of all humbugs, one of the most deplorable of 
all delusions is that which leads men to shut their eyes to truth, 
lest they should be laughed at for acknowledging it. He who is 
fooled by his own fear of ridicule, is both fool and coward." 
Others opposed it, and these were of course physicians, simply 
because it was contrary to their experience; and it is well-known 
that 
•• Ooclors are like kings. 
They brook no contradiction. 
Tin* kin*; of Siam refused to believe the Dutch ambassador, 
“that, in his country, water was sometimes congealed into a solid 
mass; for it was utterly contrary to his experience. ” But those 
days have long since passed away never to return;—the former 
scoffers have, many of them, joined our ranks, and, marching 
under our banner, are now as loud in their praises of Homoeopa- 
thy, as they were formerly noisy in their denunciations of it. 
Kverv year brings many of them to our colleges, where they 
evince a strong determination to learn the truth. Those who are 
still opposed to us, are not quite as bitter, and indeed are often 
friendlv and gentlemanly; and, thanks to our teaching and inffu- 12 
ence, they no longer consider it necessary to administer medicine 
by the quart, but, in fact, often approach the infinitesimal dose. 
The law Similia Similibus Curantcr, discovered by Hahne- 
mann, or rather its universal applicability, (for Hippocrates, 
Paracelsus, Stahl, Haller, and others, spoke of its importance, 
and performed cures in accordance with it,) has stood the test 
of time and experiment, and as well might one deny the cxist- 
ance of a supreme being, as to assert its falsity. “ Truth is 
mighty, and will prevail.” 
You are fortunate in going forth at this period then, when 
you will find few, who, even if they do not believe in the sci- 
ence you have adopted, will point the finger of scorn and ridi- 
cule at you. But the world is not vet converted ; the battle 
is not yet over ; you must buckle on your armor, and make 
new converts ; you must extend the blessings of tlife only true 
system of therapeutics, until the opposing forces are com- 
pletely routed. The time is approaching, and rapidly approach- 
ing, when the Homoeopathic will be the predominent school. 
In certain localities, whenever we gain one member, the reg- 
ular school loses one. In no place are we losing ground; 
so that we are justified in predicting a time when our school 
shall be the most numerous. You are expected to make use 
of every honorable means of spreading the glorious truths of 
the profession you have adopted : thus benefiting the commu- 
nity at large, and indirectly yourselves. 
We shall not assemble together again, for our pleasant rela- 
tions as professor and student are ended. We see many of you 
this evening for the last time ; and henceforth we shall prob- 
ably be widely separated; but we shall not forget you; we 
shall remember with pride your diligence and interest in your 
studies, and hope that you will still continue to pursue them. 
And rest assured we shall fervently hope for, and sincerely 
rejoice to learn of your success. 
And now 
“ Farewell! a word that must be and hath been— 
A sound which makes us linger ; yet—farewell.” ANNUAL REPORT. 
I5Y K. LUPLAM, M. 1)., DEAN OF THE FACULTY. 
Mr. /Resident: 
In presenting my Report for tlie Thirteenth Collegiate year of 
the Hahnemann Medical College, of Chicago, I have the honor 
to state that its affairs are in a most prosperous condition. 
The consolidation of the several courses hitherto given during 
the year, into a single term of six months duration, has been of 
incalculable advantage to the class. Being in accord with the de- 
mands of the age, and the improvements in the Art and Science 
of Medicine, it has secured a more thorough and comprehensive 
study of all the branches. The pupils have not spent their 
tilin' in perpetually rehearsing the elements of a medical education, 
hut have had a larger range, and a wider scope of study and re- 
search, than was possible for them under the old regime. This 
has permitted both teachers and pupils to do themselves justice, 
and to reflect a larger measure of credit on the College. The 
experiment of lengthening the term has been eminently success- 
ful. 
The clinical advantages afforded have been of a superior order. 
Practical surgery, medicine and gynaecology have been illustrated 
as thoroughly as possible. Not only have our students been reg- 
lar in their attendance on the clinics of the Hahnemann Hospital 
and the College Dispensary, hut the lecture-hours were so ar- 
ranged as to permit them to visit those of the Mercy and the 
County Hospitals. This has secured them the advantage of a 
liberal education, and of a practical familiarity with the different 
methods of treatment, so as to result in an intelligent confidence 
in the system of cure which they have voluntarily chosen. 14 
The class numbered ninety-one students, who were attracted 
hither from every portion of this, and also from foreign countries, 
by the excellent reputation of the school. Of this class, thirty- 
nine members have complied with the College requirements, and 
have passed a final and very thorough examination in all the 
branches taught in our curriculum. These persons are known to 
the Dean and his Colleagues, as industrious, earnest, competent 
and promising, and are heartily recommended as fit subjects for 
the Degree, which it is your privilege to bestow. 
REMARKS PREVIOUS TO CON- 
FERRING THE DEGREES. 
I5Y A. E. SMALL, M. I)., PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE. 
Before conferring upon you the degree to which you have been 
elected, suffer me to address you briefly .upon the nature of the 
responsibilities you are about to assume. Your teachers, after a 
final and plenary examination, have certified to your attainments 
in medical science, and though it may have cost you many months, 
and even years, of study and toil to gain the distinction of to-day, 
vour studies are not ended, your education as physicians is not 
finished. Hard as you have found the thorough study of our 
science, it is easy and light in comparison with that which is im- 
mediately connected with the practice of our art. This is a truth 
for which you ought to be now prepared, before you are called 
upon to learn it from that hardest of schoolmasters—experience. 
None of you need be deceived with vain anticipations of a life of 
ease and comfort in our profession. What motives may have 15 
stimulated you to study, early and late, to gain admission into the 
ranks, are known to yourselves. It is for you to institute a rigid 
self-examination, to ascertain if the overpowering motive is sucli 
as to stimulate you to adequately pursue the high calling you 
have chosen, 'flic moment you cut loose from your alma mater, 
you assume responsibilities that oblige you to resign the command 
of your entire time; not an hour of it is your own to use as you 
please Semper />aratax is the motto of the good physician ; he 
is ever at his post; the cry of suffering is hardly given before he 
is ready to respond ; night and day are all one to him ; the cold of 
winter and heat of summer make no difference; the howling tem- 
pest is not allowed to interfere with his promptness ; and whether 
at the festive board, or in bed, or in the house of prayer, he is at 
the command of the sick ; he can fix no time for self-gratification 
and ease; no eight-hour law can measure his obligation to his 
employers ; sleepless nights and days of fasting, must necessarily 
be his lot. 
Admitting that you are willing to encounter all this, and even 
more, let me ask you again to examine yourselves, and see what 
overpowering motives actuate you. Some shrink from the pro- 
fession at the outset; some fall by the way long before their life- 
task is accomplished. Would that such should not be the history 
written of any of you. 1, therefore, ask you to be satisfied, that 
you have the principle that will give you strength for your labors, 
before you enter upon them. And what is that principle? Is it 
the desire of wealth or fame? If so, you should at once be re- 
minded of the delusiveness of such desire. Is it an inate love of 
the calling ? There is an enthusiastic interest in scientific pur- 
suits that will make its possessors bear the hardest privations, 
and perform the most unpleasant offices. The poetic furor will 
clothe the garret walls with beauty, and sweeten the scanty crust 
of poverty. The enthusiasm of the scholar will deaden him to 
the sense of want, and the weariness of unending labor. Ardent 
explorers of nature have gone to seek death, among the poisonous 
effluvia of tropic marshes or left their bones embalmed in the 
arctic ice. And in like manner, the professional ardor of the 
physician will make his toil more easy, and his burden light. A 
measure of this spirit is indispensable to success, but it will not 16 
suffice alone. All this may be associated with a moral constitu- 
tion, which will render the individual an unworthy member of our 
fraternity and a curse to the community. Such a one may be cal- 
lous and hard-hearted ; he may be a mere butcher and vivisector : 
he may be an extortioner and speculator upon the miseries of his 
fellow-men ; he lacks that which is the marrow of the good phys- 
ician. Do you inquire what that is? I answer, it is the simple, 
sincere, resolute and immovable determination to be the instrument 
under Providence, of relieving the sufferings of humanity, and 
healing the sick. Like all great truths, it is simple and easily 
comprehended. Have you this resolution ? Consider to what it 
calls you ; you are to love your neighbor as yourself—and in this 
light you are to regard every member of the human race; you 
are to regard your own interests subordinate to those of your fel- 
low-beings ; you must believe that your calling binds you, not 
simply to care for yourselves, but to help others—to be the equal 
and kindly brother or sister of all. 
And finally, ladies and gentlemen, let it be understood that the 
honor conferred upon you this day, implies a pledge on your part 
that you will strictly respect the etiquette and morals of the pro- 
fession, for by so doing, you will command the respect of the com- 
munity, as well as the confidence of your medical brethren and 
co-laborers in the cause. As men and women, you are morally 
bound to incorporate the principles and precepts of Christianity 
in your daily lives. Your commission to heal the sick comes 
from the Savior of Mankind, and is engrafted in the grand scheme 
of human redemption. Therefore, let your lives be spent in hon- 
oring the great Redeemer, by doing good to his people, and then 
the noble consciousness of right will be vours. The dying words 
of the honored Boerhaave were: “He that loves God ought to 
consider nothing desirable but what is pleasing to supreme good- 
ness.” Be this your course and your final joy ; along your path- 
way, let virtue train her fairest flowers ; in your lives, let religion 
gather largely of her choicest fruits; and when your career is 
ended, may you pass from time to eternity cheered by the com- 
placent utterance of your Divine Master, “Well done, good and 
faithful.” MATRICULANTS 
FOR THE SESSION OF 1872-1873- 
NAME. RESIDENCE. PRECEPTOR. 
*BAILEY, Mrs. A. E Illinois Prof. Small. 
BARNES, A. Z Indiana Faculty. 
BASCOM, H. M Illinois Prof. Ludlain. 
BLACKMAN, O. B Illinois Dr. S. Field. 
BOLLEN, GEO Australia Prof. Ludlam. 
BOULTER, Mrs. S. E Indiana Faculty. 
BOWERS, O. B Iowa Dr. F. Woodruff'. 
BOWMAN, J. R Michigan ...Dr. E. B. Graham. 
BREED, G. H Illinois Dr. S. R. Breed. 
BROOKS, ROBT Penn Dr. D. S. Pratt. 
BROWN, C. W New York..Dr. N. R. Seeley. 
°CARMAN, GEO. P Illinois Dr. F. N. Elliott. 
“CHAPMAN, Miss EVA Michigan ...Faculty. 
CLARK, W. E Michigan ...Dr. E. B. Graham. 
COGSWELL, Mrs. C. H Iowa Dr. C. H. Cogswell 
COGSWELL, G. E Iowa Dr. C. H. Cogswell 
CREPIN, E. A., M. D Illinois Practitioner. 
*CROSBY. A. W Michigan...Dr. N. A. Gray. 
CURRIER, L. M Illinois Dr. J. H. Beaumont 
CURTIS, CHAS. C Maine Dr. J. H. Dix. 
DELAMATER, N. B., A. M Illinois Dr. W. H. Buck. 
DENKE, W Illinois Faculty. 
DESNOYERS, D Illinois Faculty. 
DIETRICH, F. A., M. D Illinois Practitioner. 
* DUNCAN, FRANK Illinois Dr. T. C. Duncan. 
DUNCANSON, E. E., M. D Illinois Practitioner. 
FIELD, GEO. W Illinois Dr. L. M. Carter. 18 
NAME. RESIDENCE. PRECEPTOR. 
°FRAVELL, Miss LYDIA J Iowa Faculty. 
FULTON, FRANK, Illinois, Drs. Small & Burt. 
GASSER, J. J Illinois, Faculty. 
GATCHELL, C. B Wisconsin,..Dr. H. P. Gatchell. 
GILBERT, T. W Ontario Dr. L. Luton. 
GILLESPIE, THOS Wisconsin ..Dr. H. P. Gatchell. 
GINLEY, J. H., M. D Michigan ...Practitioner. 
GORHAM, G. E Pe’nsylv’nia Dr. J. L. Corbin. 
GRAVEL, Miss G. H Ontario Faculty, 
HAWLEY, Miss A. M Pe’nsylv’nia Dr. T. P. Wilson. 
HOME, F. B Iowa Dr. Hollingsworth. 
HUTCHINSON, Mrs. E. L MichiganDrs. Whitfield & Prindle. 
JOHNSON, S. A Michigan....Dr. C. W. Prindle. 
KANOUSE, A. W Wisconsin...Dr. E. D. Kanouse. 
KRIDLER, SAM. R Illinois Prof. Mitchell. 
LUTON, R. M. Michigan...Prof. Hoyne. 
LUTON, A. E Ontario Dr. L. Luton. 
MACDONALD, A. P Kansas Dr. I. H. Light. 
MAGEE, Miss HATTIE E Illinois Faculty. 
MANNING, E Illinois Dr. N. F. Prentice. 
MARCY, A. L Illinois Faculty. 
MARTIN. T. M Wisconsin...Dr. S. J. Martin. 
°MASON, HENRY Illinois Prof. Hale. 
MATHEW, J. N. FRITZ Illinois Faculty. 
MELLEN, W. A Illinois Dr. J. G. Vaness. 
MIESSLER, E. G. H Illinois Prof. Hoyne. 
MILLER, E. M Illinois Dr. Small, Jr. 
MILLS, JAS. P Michigan... Dr. Shipman. 
MOHANA, JNO. B Michigan... Faculty. 
NATHORST, HJALMAR Th Sweden Dr. S. A. Robinson. 
NICOLAY, HUGH Illinois Dr. Nicolay. 
NIXON, S. E Iowa Dr. W. T. Virgin. 
PAINE, R. K Minnesota...Dr. A. L. Dornberg. 
PARKER, Miss CORNELIA A..Ulinois Faculty. 
* PENNINGTON, J. C Kansas Faculty. 
°POST, E. H Illinois Faculty. 
PRATT, E. H Illinois Prof. Pratt. 
*PRATT, D. L Penn Dr. D. S. Pratt. 
*PURINGTON, Mrs. L. C Illinois Faculty. 19 
NAME. RESIDENCE. PRECEPTOR. 
REYNOLDS, JNO. W Illinois Drs. Small & Bart. 
ROBERTS, H. W Wisconsin.. Drs. Patchin & Bishop. 
RUEHL, LOUIS A Illinois Faculty. 
SAFFORD, J. P., M. D Iowa Practitioner. 
SEYMOUR, Miss A. J New York.. Drs. Cook. 
SHOUSE, H. C Illinois Dr. Blanding. 
SINCLAIR, M. C Ontario Dr. L. Luton. 
SIXTY, Mrs. MARY, Indiana Faculty. 
cSOMERS, Mrs. M Illinois Faculty. 
SPORK, Mrs. E Illinois Faculty. 
SPRINGER, F. O. D Canada Dr. Tufford. 
STANHOPE, C. D Wisconsin...Dr. Leuthstrom. 
STEARNS, Miss L. E., M. D Illinois Practitioner. 
STEARNS, Miss M. S Illinois Faculty. 
STINSON, C. E Illinois Dr. S. E. Trott. 
♦STRONG, B. F Wisconsin...Dr. L. Tabor. 
SUTHERLAND, O Wisconsin...Faculty. 
SVANOE, Miss M Illinois Prof. Lord. 
TITUS, W. H Michigan ...Dr. Graham. 
VILAS, CHAS. H Wisconsin...Drs. Bowen & Ingman 
VINCENT, T. G Wisconsin...Dr. A. G. Leland. 
WHITFIELD, HENRY A Michigan ...Dr. I. J. Whitfield. 
WILCOX, G. WELLS Wisconsin...Drs. Patchin & Bishop 
WILLIAMS, G. WESTON Wisconsin...Dts. Patchin 8c Bishop 
WILLIAMS, Miss R. G Ohio Dr. G. O. Spence. 
* Junior*, throe years course, 
0 Partial course. LIST OF GRADUATES 
For the Session of 1872-1873. 
NAME. RESIDENCE. TITLE OF THESIS. 
BASCOM, H. M Illinois Entozoa. 
BLACKMAN, O. B Illinois Digestion. 
BOLLEN, GEO Australia Diphtheria. 
BOULTER, Mrs. S. E Indiana Obstetrics. 
BREED, G. H Illinois Chorea. 
BROWN, C. W New YorL.Entozoa. 
CLARK, W. E Michigan ...Eucalyptus. 
COGSWELL, GEO. E Iowa Variola. 
CURRIER, L. M ....Illinois Observation as an Art, and 
[its application to the science of medicine. 
DELAMATER, N. B., A.M.Illinois Hay Fever. 
DIETRICH, F. A., M. D..Illinois Nervous Affections. 
GILBERT, THOS. W Ontario Oxygen as a medicine. 
GRAVEL, Miss G. H Ontario Can a woman be a Physician? 
HAWLEY, Miss A. M Penn Scarlet Fever. 
HOME, F. B Iowa Coryza. 
JOHNSON, S. A Michigan ...Lycopodium. 
KANOUSE, A. W Wisconsin ...Bryonia. 
KRIDLER, S. R Illinois Bronchitis. 
LUTON, R. M Michigan ...Fcetal respiration. 
MAGEE, Miss H. E Illinois Iberis. 
MANNING. E Illinois Parturition. 
MELLEN, W. A Illinois Pneumonia. 
MIESSLER, E. G. H Illinois Variola et Varioloides. 
MILLS, J. P Michigan ...Gelseminum. 
PAINE, R. K Minnesota...Morbus Coxarius. 
PARKER, Miss C. L Illinois Nervous System. 
PRATT, E. H Illinois Report of a case. 
SAFFORD, J. P., M. D Iowa Burns. 
SEYMOUR, ABBY J New York ..Vaccinia. 
SHOUSE, H. C Illinois Erysipelas. 
SINCLAIR, M. C Ontario Gastritis. 
SPORK, Mrs. EMILY, Illinois Cholera Infantum. 
SPRINGER, F. O’Dee Canada Food and its relation to work. 
STINSON, CHAS. E Illinois Veratrum Viride. 
SUTHERLAND, O Wisconsin ...Bryonia. 
VILAS, CHAS. H Wisconsin ..Vision. 
VINCENT, THOS. G Wisconsin...Stricture of the Urethra. 
WHITFIELD, H. A Michigan ...Living Matter. 
WILLIAMS, RACHEL G..Ohio ,Why women should study 
[medicine.