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OF 
MEDICAL FACULTY OF KEMPER COLLEGE. 
The Faculty of the Medical Department of Kemper College would respectfully 
announce to Medical Students and the profession generally, the prosperous con- 
dition of this Institution. This school, organized in 1840, under circumstances 
the most inauspicious to success, owing to the pecuniary embarrassment of the 
times, has, notwithstanding, advanced with a steady step in usefulness and respect- 
ability. 
The Faculty, conscious of the advantages they possess, are determined to leave 
nothing undone calculated to enhance the interest of the institution, until it shall 
have attained a high and enviable position among similar institutions in the country. 
The geographical position of the school, together with other collateral advantages, 
have induced this determination. Permit us briefly to enumerate some of the more 
prominent circumstances which justify us, as we think, in entertaining hopes so 
sanguine. 
Saint Louis, now containing a population of near 40,000, and advancing with a 
continually increasing momentum to future greatness, is already most emphatically 
the commercial emporium of the West. These giant-like strides to greatness, and 
this commercial pre-eminence, are attributable mainly to two causes: the vast extent 
of navigable water-course, amounting to some 50,000 miles, connected with Saint 
Louis, and an expanse of country almost boundless, irrigated by these rivers, inex- 
haustibly rich in mineral resources and agricultural capabilities, and filling-up 
rapidly with a population industrious and enterprising. The same causes which 
conspire to make this a great commercial city, point to it with a significance which 
cannot be misunderstood as the future home of Medical Science, and as the site for 
a great Medical School. Our College building is complete and ample. Connected 
with it is an Anatomical and Pathalogical Museum, of much advantage to the medical 
student j a Chemical Apparatus sufficiently extensive for all practical purposes, and, 
in progress of formation, a Medical Library, for the use of students. The material 
here for teaching Anatomy, which is the only true foundation of medical knowledge, 
exists in superabundance: this circumstance we would wish particularly to impress 
on the mind of medical students, as we are firmly convinced, that the only way of 
acquiring a correct and useful knowledge of Anatomical science is for the student 
to avail himself of the frequept«ppiifunsSes-<tf:wending his own way through the 
complicated mazes of Our/Faculty is fully and permanently 
organized. We are all pesidehta-oi" of the Professor of 
Chemistry, who we expect will' become so this slimmer, and are not dependent on 
the emoluments arising from the school, so that the word failure is not recognized 
in our vocabulary. 
In view of these circumstances,, and on looking hack ay . the past progressive 
prosperity of our school, for the last .five years, we trust, jqiat the profession will 
neither consider us chiVpericaf whefi we express our antici- 
pation of a bright future 
Institutions, like individual^'uf®--strnietim<^:-l&e subjects of misfortune, over 
which no human foresight or human power can exert control. During the session 2 
of 1843~’4, pestilence and death were in our midst. Many of our class narrowly 
escaped a premature grave, and some half-dozen of our number fell victims to the 
prevailing epidemic, (Erysipelas) which at the same time infested the city and sur- 
rounding country. The mortality of this epidemic, though not attributable to any 
local cause, produced a panic in our medical class, causing many of our first course 
students not to return, and thus prevented us from realizing that increase last ses- 
sion which we had been wont to realize in former years. We are happy, however, 
in being able to state, that during last session not a death occurred, nor even a case 
of serious indisposition, and we flatter ourselves the panic has already subsided, and 
that a kind Providence will forever shield us from so sore an affliction as we had 
during the session of 1843-’4. Our classes for the last three years average seventy- 
six pupils. 
The Faculty of Kemper College have charge of the St. Louis Hospital, by virtue 
of a City Ordinance, during one-half the year. This institution contains from fifty 
to two hundred patients, presenting specimens of disease, the product of this and 
every other latitude of the South and West, on account of the commercial position 
of St. Louis. Medical cliniques are delivered three times per week by the Profes- 
sor of Clinical Medicine, and Surgical operations are performed, and cliniques 
delivered frequently, by the Professor of Anatomy and Surgery, to all of which 
medical students are admitted. 
There are six professorships in the Medical Department of Kemper College, the 
aggregate cost of the tickets of which is $105: Matriculation fee, $5 00; Dissect- 
ing ticket, $lO 00, which the student is not required to take but once: Graduation 
fee, $2O 00. 
The requisites for graduation are, that the student shall be not less than twenty- 
one years of age, of good moral character—shall have enjoyed the advantage of two 
years’ private pupilage, and have attended two full courses of lectures, the last of 
which must have been in this school; write and defend a thesis on some medical 
subject, and stand a satisfactory examination before the Faculty; or shall have 
attended three successive courses of lectures, without previous private pupilage; or 
shall have been engaged in a reputable practice for three years, and have attended 
one course of lectures in this school, together with the before-mentioned pre- 
requisites. 
Comfortable boarding can be procured within a convenient distance of the Col- 
lege, which is situated at the corner of Cerre and' Ninth streets, at from two to three 
dollars per week. 
J. S. MOORE, M.D., 
Dean of the Medical Faculty. 
Right Rev. JACKSON KEMPER, D.D. 
Right Rev. CICERO STEPHENS HAWKS. 
BOARD OF TRUSTEES; 
Rev. WHITING GRISWOLD. 
Rev. PETER G. MINARD. 
Rev. F. F. PEAKE. 
Rev. CHAPLIN S. HEDGES. 
EDWARD TRACY, Esq. 
JOSIAH SPALDING, Esq. 
AUGUSTUS KERR, Esq. 
HERMAN L. HOFFMAN, Esq. 
HENRY VON PHUL, Esq. 
ROBERT WASH, Esq. 
J. PARKER DOAN, Esq. 
DANIEL HOUGH, Esq. 
CHARLES JABINE, Esq. 
HENRY S. COX, Esq. 
NATHANIEL P. TAYLOR. 
BENJAMIN H. RANDOLPH. 
Rev. GEORGE W. SILL, A.M., 
Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, 
and President quo tem. MEDICAL FACULTY OF KEMPER COLLEGE. 
JOSEPH N. McDOWELLj M.D., 
Professor of Anatomy and Surgery. 
Professor of Midwifery, and Diseases of Women and Children. 
THOMAS BARBOUR, M.D., 
Professor of Pathology and Clinical Medicine. 
J. B. JOHNSON, M.D., 
Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy. 
J. F. SOWELL, M.D., 
R. F. BARRETT, M.D., 
Professor of Materia Medica and Physiology. 
J. S. MOORE, M.D., 
Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine, and Dean of the Faculty. 
CHARLES W. STEVENS, M.D., 
Demonstrator of Anatomy, and Assistant Lecturer on Anatomy. 
LIST OF GRADUATES FOR THE SESSION OF 1844-45. 
NAMES. 
SUBJECT OF THESIS. 
RESIDENCE. 
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Robert Sutherland Wiley 
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HONORARY DEGREES WERE CONFERRED UPON THE FOLLOWING 
GENTLEMEN: 
Clayton Tiffin Saint Louis, Mo. 
John C. Elbert lowa. 
H. Crane Boonvillc, Mo. 
Daniel Davies, Printer, corner Main and Olive streets.