CATALOGUES 
OF THE 
CLASSES AND GRADUATES 
OF THE 
Philadelphia Coliege of Medicine 
For 1849-50, and 1850. 
Announcement for the Winter Session 1850 and 1851, 
and Address to the Graduates of 1850. 
Philadelphia College of Medicine, Fifth Street, below Walnut. 
PHILADELPHIA: 
FEINTED BY HUGHES & GASKILL, SIXTH AND MARKET. 
1 8 5 0. PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE. 
PRESIDENT. 
HON. JESSE R. BURDEN, M. D. 
FACULTY. 
JAMES McCLINTOCK, M. D. 
Principles and Practice of Surgery. 
RUSH VAN DYKE, M. D. 
Materia Medica and General Therapeutics. 
THOMAS D. MITCHELL, M. D. 
Theory and Practice of Medicine. 
JAMES BRYAN, M. D. 
Institutes of Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence. 
EZRA S. CARR, M. D. 
Medical Chemistry. 
JAMES McCLINTOCK, M. D. 
General, Special and Surgical Anatomy. 
FREDERICK A. FICKARDT, M. D. 
Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children. 
GEORGE HEWSTON, M. D. 
Demonstrator of Anatomy. 
JANITOR. 
H. H. K. ELLIOTT. 3 
LIST OF MATRICULANTS FOR 1849-50. 
students’ names. 
RESIDENCES. 
preceptors’ names. 
John R. Angney, 
John H. Alday, M. D., 
Philadelphia, 
ii 
Dr. J. McClintock. 
Richard S. R. Andrews, 
U 
ii 
Abram M. Asay, 
a 
“ J. Bryan. 
Jacob R. Bresee, 
ii 
“ J. McClintock. 
Thomas L. Buckingham, 
a 
“ J. McClintock. 
George Bley, Jr., 
a 
“ J. K. Knorr. 
John W. Bryan, 
New Jersey, 
“ Wm. Bryan. 
Andrew M. Burden, 
Philadelphia, 
“ J. R. Burden. 
George C. Burg, 
Pennsylvania, 
“ A. Bitner. 
Benjamin C. Brooker, 
Philadelphia, 
“ M. W. Dickeson. 
John Bley, 
ii 
“ B. Housekeeper. 
Henry H. Bitner, 
Henry M. Borden, 
Benj. F. Buffington, M. D. 
Pennsylvania, 
New Jersey, 
Philadelphia, 
“ A. Bitner. 
J. Brown, 
ii 
Theo. B. Castle, 
ii 
“ J. McClintock. 
J. F. Cunningham, 
Pennsylvania, 
j “ J. H. Cunningham. 
\ “ J. McClintock. 
Wm. K. Campbell, 
ii 
j “ J. Baughman. 
\ “ J. McClintock. 
John W. Campbell, 
South Carolina, 
“ R. A. Buchanan. 
John Crowell, Jr., 
Massachusetts, 
f “ G. Cogswell. 
\ “ J. McClintock. 
Thomas Cooke, 
Philadelphia, 
Cortlen Cole, 
ii 
“ A. W. Griffith. 
Chas. A. Du Boucliet, 
ii 
“ J. McClintock. 
John Dickson, 
ii 
“ 
Albert Flowers, 
Pennsylvania, 
“ J. S. Longshore. 
Chas. B. Foster, 
Philadelphia. 
“ J. Bryan. 
Andrew Forster, 
Pennsylvania. 
“ J. Ramsay. 
A. H. Flanders, 
New Hampshire. 
“ T. Flanders. 
R. Foster, M. D., 
Philadelphia. 
Charles T. Gaskill, 
Mississippi. 
“ M. W. Dickeson. 
Michael Gegan, 
Philadelphia. 
“ J. Gegan. 
J. L. Gihon, M. D., 
ii 
James Haman, 
Delaware. 
“ J. McClintock. 
George Ilewston, 
Philadelphia. 
“ 
Henry B. Harris, 
Pennsylvania. 
“ J. S. Longshore. 
Jno. V. Holt, M. D., 
New York. 
Joseph Heritage, 
Philadelphia. 
“ T. S. Reed. 
Hiram Irwin, 
ii 
“ M. W. Dickeson. 
Luther Johnson, 
Massachusetts. 
S “ Geo. Cogswell. 
\ “ J. McClintock. 
M. J. Johnson, 
Illinois. 
“ J. McClintock. 
Wm. F. Jones, 
Philadelphia. 
“ J. B. Strafford. 
Richard P. Jones, 
ii 
ii 
Jas. G. Jones, 
South Carolina. 
“ H. H. Toland. 
James Jones, 
Virginia. 
“ J. Jones. 
Henry M. Klapp, 
Philadelphia. 
“ Jos. Klapp. 
Thos. J. Keily, 
a 
“ M. W. Dickeson. 
Jos. Koerper, 
a 
“ B. Berens. 
G. H. King, 
South Carolina. 
“ C. Murphy. 4 
STUDENTS’ NAMES. 
RESIDENCES. 
PRECEPTORS’ NAMES. 
John Keller, 
Jos. A. Leonard, 
Philadelphia. 
CC 
Dr. J. McClintock. 
A. W. Lobach, 
Pennsylvania. 
cc 
“ Geo. W. Foulke. 
Jno. B. Laird, 
“ Donaghy & Laird 
Chas. Leech, Jr., 
Philadelphia. 
“ J. McClintock. 
Henry C. Lowe, 
New Jersey. 
Thomas A. McRean, 
Philadelphia. 
“ G. Truman. 
Robert A. Maxwell, 
cc 
“ J. McClintock. 
Geo. W. Manson, M. D., 
Landreth Mitchell, 
ft 
“ J. Mitchell. 
C. H. Miller, 
cc 
A. W. Mathews, 
Jacob Marshall, 
C. L. Munns, 
Pennsylvania. 
Philadelphia. 
“ S. K. Ashton. 
G. H. Malech, 
CC. 
“ H. Y. Smith. 
G. W. Miller, 
Ohio. 
“ W. Thomas. 
N. Needham, 
New Jersey. 
“ McKissick. 
Wm. A. Ortlip, 
Philadelphia. 
“ J. McClintock. 
Chas. B. Pottenger, 
CC 
“ R. Van Dyke. 
James Pritchard, 
Louisiana. 
Isaac Pritchard, 
CC 
H. 8. Porter, 
Philadelphia. 
CC 
“ J. Bryan. 
F. W. Peabody, 
J. II. Potter, M. D., 
F. J. Pilliner, 
CC 
“ J. Bryan. 
Tlios. H. Quinan, 
cc 
T. G. Rowand, 
cc 
“ J. McClintock. 
II. C. Rudolph, 
Martin Rizer, 
cc 
cc 
CC 
CC 
Chas. G. Raue, 
cc 
“ C. Hering. 
E. De St. Romes, 
Louisiana. 
“ J. McClintock 
A. R. Shaw, 
Philadelphia. 
CC 
Henry Schmidt, 
CC 
“ F. A. Martin. 
Wm. L. Smith, 
I. W. Snowden, 
New Jersey. 
“ A. C. Haines. 
Pennsylvania. 
“ J. McClintock. 
John W. Swift, 
CC 
“ H. Lippincott. 
P. C. Sutphin, 
Virginia. 
“ W. J. Alexander. 
Cornelius Simmons, 
Pennsylvania. 
“ R. Anderson. 
H. S. Schneider, 
CC 
E. W. Shipley, 
Philadelphia. 
“ M. W. Dickeson. 
Carlisle Terry, 
Georgia. 
S “ Thos. Hoxey. 
) “ J. McClintock. 
R. S. Trowbridge, 
Philadelphia. 
“ J. McClintock. 
Jno. C. Tyson, 
Wm. B. Ulrich, 
CC 
CC 
CC 
R. E. Utterbach, 
Virginia. 
“ A. H. Saunders. 
E. F. Yallette, 
Philadelphia. 
S. P. Vondersmith, M. D. 
CC 
Jas. C. Welsh, 
South Carolina. 
“ II. H. Toland. 
Geo. W. Webber, 
Iowa. 
“ J. McClintock. 
T. G. Wormley, M. D., 
Pennsylvania. 
Jno. T. Williams, 
Philadelphia. 
“ S. McClellan. 
Chas. L. Wolff, 
CC 
“ M. W. Dickeson. 
Jos. H. Wythes, 
CC 
“ J. McClintock. 
George Watt, M. D., 
Pennsylvania. 
W. W. Wythes, 
Philadelphia 
“ J. McClintock. 
Geo. M. Yard, 
CC 
“ J. McClintock. 
Jas. A. Ziegler, 
CC 
CC 5 
SUMMARY FOR 1849-50. 
Delaware, - 
1 
New Jersey, 
5 
Georgia, ... 
1 
New York, 
1 
Illinois, 
1 
Ohio, 
1 
Iowa, ... 
1 
Pennsylvania, 
: 
Louisiana, ... 
3 
Philadelphia, - 
Massachusetts, 
2 
South Carolina, 
4 
Mississippi, - 
1 
Virginia, 
3 
New Hampshire, 
1 
— 
— 
95 
11 
11 
Total, 
- 
. 
106 
LIST OF GRADUATES FOR 1849-50. 
Commencement held March 1, 1850. The Valedictory Address 
was given by Dr. J. Bryan. 
NAMES. 
RESIDENCES. 
NAMES. 
RESIDENCES. 
John R.Angney, 
Philadelphia. 
Thomas J. Keily, 
Philadelphia. 
Henry Hoffman Bitner, 
Pennsylvania. 
John B. Laird, 
Pennsylvania. 
George Bley, Jr., 
George C. Burg, 
Philadelphia. 
Gustavus H. Malech, 
Andrew W. Mathews, 
Philadelphia. 
Pennsylvania. 
Pennsylvania. 
Wm. K. Campbell, 
66 
Christopher H. Miller, 
Philadelphia. 
66 
Cortlen Cole, 
Philadelphia. 
Thomas A. McRean, 
J. Francis Cuningham, 
Pennsylvania. 
Cuthbert L. Munns 
66 
Chas. A. Du Bouchet, 
Philadelphia. 
Henry C. Rudolph, 
66 
A. Hilliard Flanders, 
N. Hampshire. 
Carlisle Terry, 
Georgia. 
Andrew Forster, 
Matthew J. Johnson, 
Pennsylvania. 
Wm. B. Ulrich, 
Pennsylvania. 
Illinois. 
James A. Ziegler, 
Virginia. 
Total, 
- 
- 
22 
Dr. Robert McLimont, Maryland. 
“ Henry F. Peery, 
Virginia. 
“ Thomas H. Averett, Virginia. | 
Total, 
3. 
HONORARY GRADUATES. 
SUMMARY. 
Regular Graduates, ----- 22 
Honorary 3 
Total, ------ 25 
LIST OF MATRICULANTS FOR 1850. 
students’ names. 
RESIDENCES. 
PRECEPTORS NAMES. 
Jas. B. Abercrombie, 
Mississippi. 
J Dr. Herndon, 
\ “ Brown. 
H. St. Clair Ash, 
Philadelphia. 
“ J. Ash. 6 
STUDENTS’ NAMES. 
RESIDENCES. 
PRECEPTORS’ NAMES. 
A. M. Asay, 
Philadelphia. 
Dr. J. Bryan. 
W. P. Andrews, 
North Carolina. 
“ T. Williams. 
A. M. Burden, 
Philadelphia. 
“ J. R. Burden. 
Jas. B. Bell, 
Georgia. 
“ D. C. Keller. 
Gea. W. Booth, 
Mississippi. 
“ J. McClintock. 
David Best, 
Pennsylvania. 
f “ P. Spencer. 
\ “ J. McClintock. 
Wm. Burch, 
Georgia. 
“ W. Houser. 
J. R. Bresee, 
John W. Bryan, 
Philadelphia. 
“ J. McClintock. 
New Jersey, 
“ W. Bryan. 
Geo. Bley, Jr., M. D. 
Chas. T. Bocock, 
T. L. Buckingham, 
Philadelphia. 
Virginia. 
Philadelphia. 
<< 
“ W. D. Christian. 
“ J. C. Lee. 
Jno. Bley, 
“ B. Housekeeper. 
John W. Campbell, 
South Carolina. 
“ R. A. Buchanan. 
Jno. W. Crooks, 
Illinois. 
“ H. Hinckley. 
H. H. Christian, 
Georgia. 
“ C. P. Lesneur. 
T. B. Castle, 
Philadelphia. 
“ Jas. McClintock. 
J. F. Cuningham, M. D., 
Pennsylvania. 
C. Cole, M. D. 
Philadelphia. 
Joseph R. Coad, 
U 
“ M. W. Dickeson. 
John Crowell, Jr., 
Massachusetts. 
C “ Geo. Cogswell, 
£ “ J. McClintock. 
M. R. Clarke, 
South Carolina. 
J “ S. Fair. 
\ “ J. McClintock. 
Jno. Dickson, 
Philadelphia. 
<< 
A. J. De Saussure, 
South Carolina. 
C “ H. W. De Saussure 
(_ “ J. McClintock. 
Chas. Esher, 
Philadelphia. 
A. S. Eversole, 
<< 
Ira W. Fisk, 
New York. 
“ W. W. Finch. 
Wm. W. Folk, 
II. W. C. Folk. 
South Carolina. 
<< 1i 
“ J. W. Wryman. 
ti 
Chas. B. Foster, 
Albert L. Gihon, 
Philadelphia. 
“ J. Bryan. 
<< 
“ J. McClintock. 
Chas. T. Gaskill, 
Mississippi. 
“ M. W. Dickeson. 
Jno. Greenawalt, 
Pennsylvania. 
“ G. Lincaweaver. 
M. Gegen, 
Philadelphia. 
“ John Gegan. 
Sami. II. Gish, 
Pennsylvania. 
“ C. A. Baker. 
Fred’k. Gunner, 
New Jersey. 
Joseph Ganahl, 
Georgia. 
,f P. A. Aylett. 
George Ilewston, 
Philadelphia. 
“ J. McClintock. 
Richard Hall, 
Virginia. 
C “ Selden & Sons, 
f “ J. McClintock. 
James Ilaman, 
Delaware. 
<< << 
Henry B. Harris, 
Joseph Heritage, 
Pennsylvania. 
“ J. L. Longshore. 
Philadelphia. 
“ T. S. Reed. 
Peter S. Hitchens, 
u 
“ Jas. Lester. 
H. H. Hood, 
Philadelphia. 
“ J. Bryan. 
Wm. L. Hilliard, 
North Carolina. 
“ J. McClintock. 
Thos. J. Harley, 
South Carolina. 
C “ M. Appleby, 
£ “ J. McClintock. 
H. H. Irwin, 
Philadelphia. 
“ M. W. Dickeson. 
Luther Johnson, 
Massachusetts. 
C “ Geo. Cogswell, 
“ J. McClintock. 7 
STUDENTS’ NAMES. 
RESIDENCES. 
PRECEPTORS’ NAMES. 
Allen Johns, 
Philadelphia. 
Dr. J. McClintock. 
R. P. Jones, 
a 
“ J. B. Strafford. 
Jas. G. Jones, 
South Carolina. 
< “ H. H. Toland, 
£ “ J. McClintock. 
G. H. King, 
a << 
C “ C. Murphy, 
£ “ J. McClintock. 
Chas. A. Kingsbury, 
New Jersey. 
“ B. Stratton. 
Joseph Koerper, 
Philadelphia. 
“ B. Berens. 
Jos. A. Leonard, 
Philadelphia. 
“ J. McClintock. 
R. W. Loockerman, 
66 
“ S. K. Ashton. 
J. G. Lawshe, 
u 
Patrick M’Cristle, 
Ireland. 
“ T. S. Crowley. 
Robt. A. Maxwell, 
Philadelphia. 
“ J. McClintock. 
Thos. J. Myers, 
South Carolina. 
1 “ J. D. Stark. 
) “ J. McClintock. 
Murdock Murchison, 
Tennessee. 
C “ Jno. Ingram, 
i “ J. McClintock. 
Wm. M. Morton, 
Georgia. 
C “ J. R. Boon. 
1 “ J. McClintock. 
Joel M. Mack, 
Pennsylvania. 
66 66 
St. J. W. Mintzer, 
Jas. N. M’Millan, 
Philadelphia. 
Maryland. 
“ L. B. Gebhard. 
B. S. M’Cauley, 
North Carolina. 
Lemuel B. Nichols, 
Massachusetts. 
“ E. Nicholls. 
Wm. A. Ortlip, 
Pennsylvania. 
“ J. McClintock. 
Wm. Price, 
66 
“ H. Temple. 
H. S. Porter, 
Philadelphia. 
“ J. Bryan. 
Andr. D. Palmer, 
Chas. C. Phillips, 
Maryland. 
“ J. McClintock. 
Philadelphia. 
“ Jacob Huckel. 
E. J. Pilliner, 
66 
“ J. Bryan. 
Chas. G. Raue, 
Thos. G. Rowand, 
t< 
“ C. Hering. 
6i 
“ J. McClintock, 
Martin Rizer, 
66 
66 66 
Wm. C. Roney, 
Pennsylvania. 
“ C. S. Baker. 
Wm. J. P. Russell, 
Georgia. 
“ W. J. Russell. 
H. S. Rogers, 
Ohio. 
D. D. Scribner, 
South Carolina. 
A. R. Shaw, 
Philadelphia. 
Dr. J. McClintock. 
Jno. W. Swift, 
Pennsylvania. 
“ H. Lippincott. 
Jacob Shope, 
“ 
“ H. J. Beyerle. 
P. C. Sutphin, 
Virginia. 
“ W. J. Alexander. 
Wm. Stiles, 
J. Scheuren, M. D. 
Philadelphia. 
“ J. McClintock. 
E. De St. Romes, 
Louisiana. 
“ J. McClintock. 
Henry Schmidt, 
Philadelphia. 
“ F. A. Martin. 
E. W. Shipley, 
66 
“ M. W. Dickeson. 
W. R. Smith, 
Pennsylvania. 
Oscar Teitze, 
Philadelphia. 
C. B. Turner, 
New York. 
“ L. D. Fleming. 
Jno. C. Tyson, 
Philadelphia. 
“ J. McClintock. 
R. W. Thomas, 
(t 
66 66 
R. S. Trowbridge. 
J. R. Taylor, 
New York. 
66 66 
T. T. Turner, 
Georgia. 
66 
“ S. R. Mathews. 
J. F. Usry, 
C “ C. Gibson. 
E. F. Vallette, 
Philadelphia. 
2. “ J. M’Clintock. 8 
STUDENTS’ NAMES. 
RESIDENCES. 
PRECEPTORS’ NAMES. 
Theodore Walser, 
Philadelphia. 
Dr. J. D. Miller. 
Geo. W. Webber, 
Iowa. 
“ J. McClintock. 
Jas. C. Welsh, 
South Carolina. 
C “ H. H. Toland. 
C “ J. McClintock. 
Jos. H. Wythes, 
Delaware. 
u a 
H. Wadsworth, 
Pennsylvania. 
(( u 
W. W. Wythes, 
Philadelphia. 
a a 
A. W. Wright, 
U 
S. I. Willard, 
South Carolina. 
“ H. G. Middleton. 
C. F. Williams, 
Pennsylvania. 
“ M. R. Trevor. 
Daniel D. Wade, 
Virginia. 
“ J. V. Boughner. 
Geo. M. Yard, 
Jas. A. Ziegler, M.D. 
Pennsylvania. 
“ J. McClintock. 
A. A. Ziegenfuss, 
Philadelphia. 
“ R. Van Dyke. 
SUMMARY FOR 1850. 
Delaware, 
2 
Ohio, 
1 
Georgia, 
8 
Philadelphia, 
Illinois, 
1 
Pennsylvania, 
Iowa, 
1 
South Carolina, 
12 
Ireland, 
1 
Tennessee, 
1 
Louisiana, 
1 
Virginia, 
4 
Maryland, 
2 
114 
Massachusetts, 
3 
Mississippi, 
3 
Winter Class of 1849 & ’50, 
106 
New Jersey, 
3 
Spring Class, 1850, 
114 
New York, 
3 
— 
North Carolina, 
3 
Total for the year, 
220 
LIST OF GRADUATES FOR 1850. 
Commencement held July 19, 1850. The Valedictory Address 
by Dr. J. R. Burden, President. 
NAMES. 
RESIDENCES. 
NAMES. 
RESIDENCES. 
Wm. P. Andrews, 
Henry St. Clair Ash, 
North Carolina. 
Wm. M. Morton. 
Georgia. 
Philadelphia. 
Thos. J. Myers, 
South Carolina. 
David Best, 
Pennsylvania. 
Lemuel B. Nichols, 
Massachusetts. 
Geo. W. Booth, 
Mississippi. 
Andrew D. Palmer, 
Maryland. 
John W. Campbell, 
South Carolina. 
Charles G. Raue, 
Philadelphia. 
it 
Hope H. Christian, 
Georgia. 
Martin Rizer, 
Michael Roach Clark, 
South Carolina. 
Thos. G. Rowand, 
it 
John Crowell, Jr., 
Allen J. De Saussure, 
Massachusetts. 
Wm. J. P. Russell, 
Georgia. 
South Carolina. 
Henry Schmidt, 
Philadelphia. 
Ira W. Fisk, 
New York. 
Daniel D. Scribner, 
South Carolina. 
Richard Hall, 
Virginia. 
Eugene De St. Rones, 
Louisiana. 
Henry B. Harris, 
Thomas J. Harley, 
Pennsylvania. 
Powhatan C. Sutphin, 
Virginia. 
South Carolina. 
Richard W. Thomas, 
Philadelphia. 
George Hewston, 
Philadelphia. 
Henry Wadsworth, 
Pennsylvania. 
Wm. Lewis Hilliard, 
North Carolina. 
George W. Webber, 
Iowa. 
Luther Johnson, 
Massachusetts. 
James C. Welsh, 
South Carolina. 
James G. Jones, 
South Carolina. 
Samuel J. Willard, 
it it 
Gideon Henry King, 
it it 
Charles F. Williams, 
Pennsylvania. 
Chas. A. Kingsbury, 
New Jersey. 
Joseph H. Wythes, 
Delaware. 
Joel M. Mack, 
Pennsylvania. 
George M. Yard, 
Pennsylvania. 
St. John Watkins Mintzer, Phila. 
Total, 
41. Pages 9-12 missing VALEDICTORY ADDRESS 
To the Graduates of the Sprmp/tSession 1850, delivered 
by the Hon. J. K. Burden, M. D., President of the 
College, at the Commencement held at the Musical 
Fund Hall on Friday, 10 o clock A. M., July 19,1850. 
Gentlemen:—You have complied with the laws of the State 
of Pennsylvania which make the requirements of graduation a 
period of study of three years in the office of a respectable prac- 
titioner, the attendance of at least two full courses of medical lec- 
tures, and an examination separately by the Professors. The cor- 
porators have received official notice that you are worthy and well 
qualified, and have directed their President to confer upon you 
the Degree of Doctor of Medicine. 
In this city, the first American School of Medicine was esta- 
blished, and although the number of students had only increased 
from 12 to 30 in the first fourteen years of its existence, Philadel- 
phia has from that period been the capitol and centre of medical 
education—her diploma is esteemed the brightest in America. 
The Philadelphia College, from which you this day receive your 
degree, possesses all the chartered privileges which the Legisla- 
ture of the State has ever conferred on any medical institution; 
young as it is, standing the third in the number of its students, it 
yet ranks second to none for the professional standing, education, 
experience, and talents of its Professors. 
The Corporators, acting under the laws of the land as Trustees 
for the community, and for the Medical Profession, will not per- 
mit a Professor to hold a chair in the College, unless he have 
knowledge and the faculty of communicating it to the class; favor- 
itism, wealth, and family alliance, have nothing to do with the 
office. The sole requisites are character and mind. 14 
You have attained the object of your ambition, the diploma of 
this College, by close application during the inclemencies of win- 
ter, and the heats of summer; you have found by experience that 
the course is not a parade, but a fatigue duty; you realize what it 
is to pass the ordeal of the green box; you are living witnesses of 
the means of instruction and of the capacity of your teachers. 
Gentlemen—you have received your commission to enter into 
the active service of life, your success but depends upon your- 
selves, on the correctness and firmness of your moral principles, 
on your fair and honorable deportment, on your knowledge, in- 
formation and industry. 
You have received materials for education; all that can operate 
on the mind through the eye and ear has been presented to you; 
all that teachers can do has been done, the rest remains with you, 
for no man is educated but the self-taught. 
Permit one who no longer has a pecuniary interest in the pro- 
fession, but who has loved and honored it through life, to make a 
few suggestions as to your future course. 
If you have not learned the Greek and Latin languages, learn 
them. True, they are not indispensable as when they were the 
only written languages. True, that all the knowledge, and all 
that passed for knowledge has long ago been translated, that every 
thing which had been buried in the dead languages has been 
brought to light, with much perhaps, that might as well have been 
left in the tomb. 
But the Latin and Greek furnish the materials for word building 
—the learned go to these as the architects of Greece and Rome 
go to the classic ruins for the materials from which to construct 
their edifices. 
All the terms of science are Greek and Latin—all the new 
words which the progress of civilization compels men to make, 
are from these languages. 
The modern languages, like the bank notes of local institutions, 
are only known in a limited neighborhood. 
The ancient are like gold and silver, current every where in the 
scientific world, at home in every land, naturalized in every lan- 15 
guage, fitting every department in science, interwoven in every 
page of our Profession. 
Your medical reading has hitherto been wisely limited to the 
text books and notes of lectures, your reading in future will be 
more extensive, and your minds will be free from the tension of the 
student. 
Of all that concerns your profession a few pages will record the 
truth, from the dawn of history until the seventeenth century. I am 
aware of the blind and indiscriminate respect that has been paid 
to ancient times—a fallacy, however, that is growing out of date. 
Antiquity is not the light of the world. The truth and not the age 
of fact, is what men have to do with. 
Shall we go to hoary headed Egypt to be taught that the hu- 
man body is divided into thirty-six parts, over which thirty-six 
genii preside, causing “all the ills that flesh is heir to,” and that 
the whole Materia Medica consists of one article, used now only 
by Macbeth’s witches ? 
Must we credit Father Hippocrates because he lived in the 80th 
Olympiad, that the arteries contain air and no blood, and doubt, 
in spite of our eyes and the dissecting knife, whether the veins arise 
from the heart, the liver or the brain. 
Shall we believe on the same authority that animal heat is 
generated by a native fire rtv? kindled in the left 
ventricle of the heart, and that the auricles are a pair of bel- 
lows, to blow the breath and moisture from the lungs. 
Plato, the sage, says the water we drink passes down the wind- 
pipe into the lungs. 
Must we believe with Aristotle, that the muscles are the organs 
of sensation; the arteries organs of locomotion; that the only use 
of the brain, is to exhale vapors, and to act as a damper on the 
heat of the lungs and arteries. 
That the food is boiled, stewed, or concocted in the stomach; 
that the liver, spleen and kidneys are mere cushions for the arteries 
and veins to rest upon. 
Must we bow to the authority which so long controlled the hu- 
man mind, for the sole reason that he lived 384 years before the 16 
Christian era. Or because it was said of “old times” must we 
credit that the constellations acting on the four humours and eight 
qualities, cause 479,001,500 changes in the human body, all of 
which a Doctor must know and distinguish, in order to succeed in 
practice. 
But for accuracy of observation and correctness of description 
the works of the ancients stand like the orders of architecture— 
simple, beautiful, imperishable. 
Astronomy had a venerable mother, Astrology. Alchemy gave 
birth to Chemistry, and Medicine in such company, when Time 
was very young, could not go beyond the spirit of the age. 
Modern Medicine dates from the commencement of the 17th 
century. 
Before this period Philosophy was like the barren fig tree, rich 
in foliage but destitute of fruit. It was for puzzle, not for prac- 
tical use. One of its objects to know “ whether we can be certain 
of any thing, or be certain that we are certain of “nothing.” 
The object of modern Philosophy was to improve the condition 
and increase the happiness of man—to control matter by mind. 
Its effects are seen in the results of commerce, arts, manufactures; 
in all that is comprised in the term civilization. In that law of 
progress which is giving to the humblest individual more comforts, 
enjoyments and luxuries than were formerly possessed by the most 
powerful sovereigns. 
In 1620, Bacon published his novum organum scientiarum and 
the girdled fig tree began to wither. 
In 1628, Harvey announced the discovery of the circulation of 
the blood. 
At this announcement, the medical world was in commotion 
all the Physicians who pointed to their gray hairs as unanswerable 
evidences of their erudition and skill, persecuted the daring inno- 
vator, the man who had brushed away at one fell swoop all their 
darling theories and time honored doctrines; they turned the cur- 
rent of popular prejudice against him and seriously affected his 
means of earning his daily bread. No man over 40 years of age 
became a convert to his opinions until 1690, when Malpighi and 17 
Leewenhoeck experimented with the microscope and saw theblood 
coursing the arteries. 
From 1690, we have a period rich in advancement. Mind has 
been in motion in every department of knowledge, and medicine 
has been carried forward by the general impulse. 
The worm eaten documents of antiquity have given place to the 
authority of Truth, and man confines his reasoning to what is 
known. 
This period of only 160 years, full as it is of knowledge, you can 
make yourselves familiar with, bythe exe rcise of industry and 
systematic skill. 
Begin with the most modern books, as in Geography you begin 
with the latest maps; keep your note book for every department 
of your profession; consider each note book as a syllabus for a 
course of lectures. A few months judicious systematic reading 
will furnish you with the few truths spread in all garbs, through 
many volumes: expunge from their pages all borrowed matter and 
comparatively little is left to remember. 
The subject of medical study, the human being, averages about 
134 pounds in weight, occupies a few feet in space, and runs the 
course the Creator has appointed in three score and ten years. 
By your diligence you have acquired a brain and a finger 
knowledge of his symmetrical organization; you have been taught 
the means and appliances to counteract and remedy diseases; 
reading, observation, study, and realizing the responsibility, will 
enable you to practice your profession with satisfaction to your- 
selves, and with safety to your patients. Do not confine your 
reading to your profession; learn all you can; the stream of im- 
provement is running at a rapid rate. 
Men begin to realize that their comforts, rights, peace and 
interests have a close, if not an inseparable connection with edu- 
cation, and the effort is making in this land of human nature, 
to elevate man to the station for which God designed him, by the 
cultivation of his mental faculties. 
The Physician who neglects education, will be behind the 
times—will commit a sin against intellect and against his interest. 18 
Professional talent cannot be properly estimated by the com- 
munity; but good sense teaches men, that he who is ignorant 
on matters of general or scientific knowledge is not likely to be 
well acquainted with his profession. The various branches of 
science are so interwoven, that to be familiar with one, others 
must be known. 
How apparently unconnected with medical studies is the read- 
ing of voyages, yet such reading led to correct views of the pro- 
cess of nutrition—to a new era in medicine, and in human hap- 
piness, to the extinction of scurvy, a disease once frightful in 
its course and fatality, to the establishment of data, which en- 
ables nations to keep large fleets afloat for any voyage, which 
maintain armies of half a million of men in health. 
Facts gained from the mariner have deprived the ocean of one 
of its dangers; have destroyed one of the terrible enemies of the 
tented field. 
Even in civil life they have prevented blindness and deformity 
in children, and diminished to a great extent disease and misery 
and death in the public asylums for the poor and the criminal. 
Do not suppose that in urging upon you the necessity of edu- 
cation I wish to alarm you with the difficulties to be encountered; 
on the contrary, all that is known can be acquired by well direct- 
ed application and the exercise of common sense. Only con- 
tinue the industry which you have practiced during your course 
in the College, and you will soon be masters of the field. 
On a small part of the retina, the wharves, shipping and objects of a 
crowded city are accurately pictured; an area of miles on a few lines of 
the nerves’expansion, but the mind’s eye has infinitely greater capacity. 
It presents in pictures almost as vivid as life, all the great past. 
Century and Century at its command, stand side by side, on the same 
horizon. 
Before it rise, distinct in lineament, all the mighty men who stand 
the land-marks of their times to after ages. 
To the mind there is no past, except the bright impenetrable veil 
which secures futurity, all is present now. 
All absorbing—all concentrating, its operations, thought, memory, 
distanced the lightning in velocity—obliterate time and space. 
The more the mind is stored, the more room there is for treasures. 19 
It solves the paradox “ To him that haath shall be given.” 
Its results, its years of ripening may be communicated and understood 
in a few hours. 
Such is the machine which God has given to man to surmount obstacles 
—to subdue matter. 
So much for the learning and knowledge of your Profession. I urge it 
upon you because I wish you to succeed; I wish you to educate your- 
selves, in order that you may be ready to take any station in your pro- 
fession. The true secret of success, is to be ready and qualified for ad- 
vancement, and the general reason for keeping in the rear rank is, being 
unprepared for the van. Slumbering and sleeping and having no oil in 
the lamps, or not being ready when the angel comes down to stir the 
waters. 
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I have no respect for the young man who is contented with mediocrity, 
and I assure you that the highest hfinors of the profession are in your 
grasp, if you have the courage and industry to deserve them. s I will not 
say “there is no such word as fail;” but in the unassuming and encour- 
aging language of truth, “ ask and ye shall receive, seek and ye shall 
find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.” 
There are points essential to success in practice, knowledge 
of your profession. I shall merely touch on them—they may strike, 
you as small matters, still like small change, they may be useful in 
currency. 
When you return to your friends do not consider yourselves better 
than your neighbors, because you are professional men. Remember 
that thosOnly real title to respectability, is usefulness,and that respect 
will always be awarded to mental and moral character. 
Practice all that constitutes politeness in dress, deportment and the 
intercourse of society—its robes are more effectual in protecting the 
person than the coat of mail. The principle of real politeness si 
“ do unto others as you would be done by.” Keep this in sight in all 
its applications. 
Avoid volunteer practice, view it in the same light that the judge 
does volunteer evidence. 
Never give your services to get the name of attending the poor 
gratis—you are no more bound to attend for nothing, than the baker 
is to give away his bread to the hungry, or the merchant to give away 
his goods to the ragged. When you do attend for nothing, let it be 
on the holy principle of charity. Do not disgrace the profession or 
your heart by charging the poor widow or the female who works from 20 
sun to sun for subsistence; but look for no other than the rich reward , 
the consciousness 4 Think not of the return of gratitude, 
and never expose yourselves by- repeating what you have done, or of 
complaining of the recipients^ 
If you attend a you will seldom be called into 
the family of a rich and aspiring relative, and if the poor person be- 
come rich you are the last, probably, that he will employ. If you 
complairfof this treatment, it will show that your.;charit\ is like sound- 
5rfg affcjnbfong symbol.. He who confers ajbenrot ought never 
to remember it, if he be iTise Ad1'good.*' ' * f 
Avoid taking public office with pett* salary, when your employers 
are illiterate men—you put your character on the is\ie and lose or 
kcep^-j^pa^hj re- 
cipients of public bourity. ' ’ V \ * \ 
Keep money matters business to yourselves. If you 
say you will be considered as succeeding, and the world will 
help you. If you talk about your practice, you will be sus- 
pected of being poor, and fare accordingly. 
'Avoid all times except in medical medical 
subjects. 7 V 
p In giving testimony apt! bjojc jty. * 
Keep seerfeffi, given to you as such, wifli more than masortic fidelity— 
tell them to none. Matters very trifling in your estimation, nuty be 
viewed as highly important by a patient. Take care to repeat nothing 
about your practice to. any one. 
Do not become what is termed a friend of the family pa- 
tient; have the character of a physician, and that only. Ilearas little 
as possible, and forget all you Silence, tho’ imponderable, is an 
immense power. v J 
Your business is with the body, do not, therefore, interfere with the 
clerical profession in the health of the soul. The quack in Theology 
ranks no higher than Me'dical Empiric^ 
Permit me, before I close, to tender you in the name of the Profes- 
sors, their thanks for your attention to your studies, your invariable 
gentlemanly bearing and deportment, and to expect their great satis- 
faction withyour daily and last examination. 
And in your name permit me \to tender thanks to the troops of 
friends who have this day welcomed by their presence and countenance, 
tho honor conferred upon you, and to none more, to none so much, as to 
the better and best half of human nature.