The Addresses 
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JjOMjVIEJN CEMENT 
OF THE 
Med ical f) ep art n\ei\t 
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Georgetown University, 
BY 
Prof. BENJ. S. HEDRICK, M. A , Ph. D.; J. M. GREEN, M D 
and JOSEPH TABER M., M b 
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WASHINGTON, D. C. 
K. BERESFORD, BOOK AND JOB PRINTER, 628 F STREET, 
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DELIVERED AT THE 
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Georgetown University, 
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Prof. BENJ. S. HEDRICK, M. A., Ph. D.; J. M. GREEN, M. D„ 
and JOSEPH TABER JOHNSON, A. M., M. D. 
ZVEAROU 16, 1875 
WA'&IIINGTOX, d. c. 
R. BERE3FORD, BOOK AND JOB PRINTER, 628 F STREET. 
1875. CORRESPONDENCE. 
Washington, D. C.,'March 17, 1875. 
Dear Sir: 
In behalf of the class which we have the honor to represent, we respect- 
fully request a copy of your able and very instructive address, delivered at 
the Twenty-sixth Annual Commencement of the Medical Department, Univer- 
sity of Georgetown, for publication. 
With assurances of high regard, 
We remain your obedient servants, 
C. C. ELLIS, 
DOUGLAS BINNS, 
E. C. MORGAN, 
PHILIP CARROLL, 
Committee.. f 
Benjamin S. Hedrick, M. A., Ph. D., 
Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology. 
Washington, D. C., March 17, 1875. 
Gentlemen : 
With thanks for your complimentary request, I herewith place my address 
at your disposal. 
Hoping that it merits your favorable opinion, 
I am, most sincerely and faithfully, yours, 
BENJAMIN S. HEDRICK. 
C. C. Ellis, 
Douglas Binxs, 
E. C. Morgan, 
Philip Carroll. 
Committee. 4 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
Washington, March 17, 1875. 
Dear Sir: 
In behalf of the “ Medical Society of the Alumni” I respectfully solicit 
for publication a copy of the address delivered by you at the Twenty-sixth 
Annual Commencement of the Medical Department of Georgetown College. 
Very truly yours, 
j. a. McCauley, m. d., 
Corresponding Secretary Medical Society of the Alumni. 
Joseph Taber Johnson, M. D. 
Washington, D. C., March 17, 1875. 
Dear Sir: 
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note, requesting a 
copy of my address, delivered at the Twenty-sixth Annual Commencement of 
the Medical Department of Georgetown College, for publication. 
In reply, I herewith enclose a copy of the address. 
Please accept my warmest thanks, and believe me, 
Ever faithfully yours, 
JOS. TABER JOHNSON, M. D. 
J. A. McCauley, M. D., 
Corresponding Secretary Medical Society of the Alumni. CORRESPONDENCE. 
Washington, March 17, 1875. 
Dear Sir: 
We have been delegated by our fellow-students to express their hearty 
appreciation of your Valedictory Address, delivered at the Twenty-sixth 
Annual Commencement of the Medical Department, University of Georgetown, 
and respectfully request a copy of the same for publication. 
With sincere respect, 
Your obedient servants, 
C. C. ELLIS, 
DOUGLAS BINNS, 
E. C. MORGAN, 
PHILIP CARROLL, 
Committee. 
J. M. Grken, M. D., 
Valedictorian Clast of 1875. 
Washington, D. C., March 17, 1875. 
Ghntlemen : 
Your polite note in behalf of your class, requesting a copy of my address 
is received. 
I accede with pleasure, not forgetting to return heartfelt thanks for the 
appreciation you have been pleased to express. 
Yours, very truly, 
J. M. GREEN. 
G. C. Ellis, 
Douglas Binns, 
33. C. Morgan, 
Philip Carroll, 
Committee. THE ADDRESS 
OF 
Benj. S. Hedrick, M. A., Ph. D., 
Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology. 
Gentlemen of the Graduating Class: 
My brethren of the Faculty have imposed upon me the 
honorable task of welcoming you among our ancient fra- 
ternity. It is an occasion for rejoicing and congratulation. 
We extend to you a hearty greeting. These friends here 
assembled do the same in a more expressive manner than 
any language I can employ. All the surroundings are cal- 
culated to make a deep and lasting impression upon your 
memories. We recall with pleasure the hours we have spent 
together. The Faculty are glad of the opportunity of giving 
this public indorsement of your fitness to begin the practice 
of the noble and laborious profession of medicine. All here 
assembled join in sincere wishes for your future success. 
Our venerable institution of learning now enrolls you among 
her honored children, and will rejoice in your success, and 
grieve at any misfortune that may overtake you. She will, 
so far as possible, encourage you in all your efforts for high 
and honorable achievement. 
You have already had a foretaste of the labor that awaits 
you. You know also the importance of the work in which 
you are engaged. It has commanded the respect of the 
wise and good of all ages. Our science ranks among the 
oldest, if it is not the oldest cultivated by our race. It has 
claimed the thought and labor of probably one-fourth of the 8 
ADDRESS OF 
educated talent of the world. Its progress has been slow. 
The reason for this lies mainly in the peculiar difficulties 
attending it. The poet, it has been said, is born; the orator 
is made; the physician must grow. He is the resultant 
growth of the centuries, though he appears only to-day. 
This growth must come of so many favorable circumstances, 
surroundings and aids, that the time required is one of the 
best assurances of its durability. The preparatory education 
must equal that of any of the learned professions, and the 
number of branches required far exceeds that of any other. 
The general advancement of the science of medicine depends 
upon the development of so many kindred arts and seiences 
that it has been hindered and delayed at every point. Many 
of these kindred arts and sciences are still in their infancy. 
The poets and orators of ancient times were as well furnished 
for their work as their most favored brethren of the present 
day. Hot so with the physicians, surgeons, chemists, physi- 
ologists and pharmacists. Two of these sciences, chemistry 
and physiology, are now making such rapid advances that 
only the most diligent student can keep up with their march. 
Chemistry has always had a close connection with medicine, 
but, unfortunately, until within the last hundred years it was 
itself a mere disconnected mass of facts, and little able to 
render assistance to other sciences. The chemists all over 
the world celebrated their centennial during the year just 
past. In reviewing this period, any one will be impressed 
with the great number of preparations which have been 
given to medicine by chemistry. These, when taken with 
the new facts ascertained by the physiologists, constitute the 
latest and most important advances in the medical art. A 
few years ago carbolic and salicylic acids, the hydrate of 
chloral, the hydrates and nitrites of methyl and amyl were 
terms wholly unknown to the materia medica. Now they 
are used everywhere, and in the hands of the educated phy- 
sician become most important agents. There are now some 
two hundred alcaloids in use in medicine. Most of these 
have been contributed by the labors of the chemists, and BENJAMIN S. HEDRICK, M. A., PH. D. 
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when thoroughly proved by the skill of the practitioner have 
been incorporated in the materia medica. At various times 
in the past the chemist and the doctor were at variance. 
Now they are becoming as one. This is for the advantage of 
both. 
In taking leave of you and sending you forth to your 
labors, it may be proper for me to give some advice, and 
utter a few words of warning. I have already alluded to 
the immensity of the field you are to occupy, and the vast- 
ness of the stores of learning and science you are to employ 
in your work. It is not expected that you shall master all 
of these. But it is expected that to the general knowledge 
you now have, you continue to add such new matters 
from the related sciences as will enable you to keep in the 
front rank of your profession. In many cases it is your part 
to make useful to the race the principles and facts developed 
and recorded by special cultivators of chemistry, physiology 
and all the related sciences. When they make mistakes you 
will often be able to detect them. For the test of the real 
value of these things must be your judgment to approve or 
to disapprove. 
In the way of warning, let me caution you against a few 
sources of error into which others have fallen. Be not too 
firmly bound to the most authoritative dogmas. It was 
once the opprobrium of the doctors that it was better that 
the patient die than the rules of medicine be violated. 
The weight of authority will not now long avail in the 
face of intelligent observation. For two hundred years it 
was held that a fever patient must not he permitted to drink 
water. Van Ilelmont, who was a physician, and also an 
eminent chemist of his day, observed that the decay of all 
organic matters was hastened by the presence of moisture. 
Fever, he said, is only a form of decay. Therefore avoid 
water. This doctrine was sufficient to hold in bondage the 
medical faculty for centuries. We have changed all that. 
Another source of error you must be careful to avoid. 
Do not seek facts simply to comfirm previously conceived 10 
ADDRESS OF BENJ. S. HEDRICK, M. A., PH. D. 
opinions or theories. You must observe more or less with 
a special view to establish or controvert hypotheses and doc- 
trines. But these need not blind you so as to prevent your 
seeing the facts as they are. 
Nearly twenty-four years ago a tornado passed just north of 
the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts. At that time the 
different investigators of the theory of storms held doctrines 
directly opposite, as to whether great heat or cold was the 
consequence of the violent currents of the air existing in 
the tornado. The morning after the storm the advocates of 
these opposing theories visited the spot where its effects 
were most marked. In an orchard were found a quantity 
of apples which had been shaken from the trees. Those 
who held that great heat was developed by the storm found 
a full confirmation of their theory, for they observed that 
the apples had been scalded. The advocates for the theory 
of cold observed the same apples, and also proved their doc- 
trine correct, for they said the apples were frost bitten. 
Each party came away satisfied, and a doubt only arose, 
when, after some time it was found that the same facts had 
led to opposite conclusions. It was then too late to make 
more exact observations and really settle the point at issue. 
Let the haste of these philosophers be a warning to you. 
So much in the way of advice and warning. I need not 
say how much is expected of you, nor what efforts it will 
require on your part to attain it. The burdens which duty 
and your own ambition to succeed impose upon you will 
quickly inform you. 
The several members of the faculty have labored to give 
you such an outfit of mental culture as will enable you to 
meet, on equal ground, the young men who go forth from 
other institutions. Let there be only such rivalry between 
yon and them as to which can best discharge his duty to him- 
self, the profession and humanity. This sort of emulation 
will bless you without injuring them. I have only, then, to 
say, God bless you,—may all your efforts be for good, and 
may success attend them. THE ADDRESS 
OF 
Jos. Taber Johnson, a. M„ M. D., 
“Orator” Medical Society of the Alumni. 
Mr. President, 
Ladies and Gentlemen: 
In the practice of some of the ancient Universities of Con- 
tinental Europe it was the custom to present the medical 
graduate on the day on which he gained his doctorship with 
a ring, a barette, an open and a shut book. The ring be- 
tokened the solemn espousal of the young graduate to the 
medical profession. The barette indicated that he was at 
the same time set apart and consecrated as a priest to science. 
The open book was given as an emblem of the things already 
taught him, while the more significant closed volume with 
which he was presented was meant to typify that far longer 
and greater extent of professional knowledge which it was 
yet the study and business of his life to acquire. 
While our College to-day has not followed this ancient 
example, yet it has with equal solemnity given into the 
sacred keeping of its Alumni a parchment certificate, signed 
by each member of its Faculty, with the great seal of the 
University attached, certifying to the world that its gradu- 
ates are prepared to diagnose and treat the many ills which 
afflict the human race. 
It is fully a quarter of a century since this now well estab- 
lished Medical College began to send forth its graduates, 
and we are cheered by intelligence, not only from all parts 12 
ADDllESS OF 
of our own land, but from other nations, of their usefulness 
and success. Those who have lingered near their alma mater, 
numbering about one hundred in all, have banded themselves 
together into a Medical Society of the Alumni, at whose 
meetings they cultivate a stronger fraternal regard, discuss 
medical questions, and seek to promote not only the best 
interests of their Society, but those of the College from which 
they graduated. 
This is the fifth commencement occasion in which your 
Alumni have been invited to participate, and for this pleas- 
ant recognition you are thanked for the fifth time to-day— 
thanked for your friendly, I might say fatherly, regard 
exhibited to us personally and as a society. It is my agree- 
able privilege upon this public occasion, in the name of your 
Alumni, whose mouthpiece I am, and I thank them for the 
honor, to bring to you their affectionate remembrances, and 
also their renewed assurances of unabated interest in the 
future growth and increasing success of the College over 
which you have for so many years presided. 
To the successful continuance of our Society, and the 
accomplishment of its high objects, I invite the hearty co- 
operation of the present graduating class. From those of 
you who remain in Washington we hope for mutual friend- 
ship and benefit, and as you enter the life of competition 
among us, we of the Alumni hold out to you the welcoming 
and friendly hand. 
The world flatters and fawns upon successful men in all 
the honorable, and I am sorry to say, some of the dishonor- 
able callings in life. _N"o one finds it difficult to secure re- 
cognition and friendly regard after success has been won, 
but my friends, the road to success is a hard one,—a thorny 
one, and the self-denial and toil necessary to gain success is 
frequently irksome, and accompanied by many heart burn- 
ings and discouragements. But, after all, we are told by 
those who have struggled and fought, but finally conquered, 
that the victory is glorious, and well worth the price it has 
cost. The entrance of our graduates into practice is facili- JOSEPH TABER JOHNSON, A. M., M. D. 
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tated by the existence of this friendly society, and may it be 
a prominent object with us all to promote the growth of a 
still stronger fraternal regard. 
Our lot, that is, the lot of the Associated Alumni, is cast 
in this city, the capital of the nation, and it is here that we 
are to sink or swim, survive or perish, by the practice of the 
profession whose principles we have all learned from the 
Professors upon this platform. We have been told, as we 
entered College, that this great capital city offered peculiar 
advantages to the student, and subsequently to the practi- 
tioner of medicine. The great value of the Library of 
Congress and of the Army Medical Museum; the presence 
in our midst of the Congress of our country, the focus from 
which emanates the laws and political influence of our na- 
tion ; the residence among us of so many distinguished men, 
with their educated families; of the highest medical officers 
of the army and navy; of the scientific men of the Smith- 
sonian Institution, the National Coast Survey and the 
National Observatory, have all been given to us as exam- 
ples of the advantages of a residence in this city. 
It has frequently been pointed out that this, in preference 
to all other cities in America, is the location for a grand 
National University, founded upon the broadest possible 
basis, and teaching all branches of learning. We have been 
reminded of our proximity to the National Soldiers’ Home, 
and to the National Hospital for the Insane, of our great 
Government Departments, beautifying our streets with their 
marble and granite buildings, of our several Hospitals, 
Clinique8 and Dispensaries. These “ unsurpassed advan- 
tages,” as the}' are called, have been enumerated so many 
times in the College prospectus, newspaper advertisement, 
and in commencement addresses, that those accustomed to 
their repetition are tempted to smile as their ears again 
catch the familiar phrases. 
But, gentlemen of the Alumni, we have been wrong; we 
have neglected great opportunities which possibly some of 
us may never again have the time at our disposal to improve. 14 
ADDRESS OF 
And, in the few momenta allotted to this address, I wish to 
draw your attention to the conspicuous place we occupy in 
the nation by virtue of our residence, and to the responsi- 
bilities which I conceive to be resting upon us, as a part of 
the medical profession of our city. It is everywhere recog- 
nized to be a man’s duty, as well as privilege, to make as 
much out of himself as in him lies. 
Our failures in life affect so many interests beside our 
own, that if in our power honestly to prevent it, we have no 
right to fail. We have Divine authority for judging a man 
according to the light which he hath. The existence, then, 
in our midst of the extensive Anatomical and Pathological 
Museum, maintained at great expense by the U. S. Govern- 
ment, of the Army Medical Library of 60,000 volumes, and 
of the Library of Congress with its more than 300,000 vol- 
umes, throws upon us responsibilities commensurate with 
our opportunities for gaining knowledge concerning the na- 
ture, diagnosis and treatment of disease. In view of these 
facts, I maintain that few cities in this country offer to medi- 
cal men, good, true, studious men, advantages such as are 
lying within the easy reach of every resident Alumnus of 
this College; but these great opportunities are for those suf- 
ficiently great to grasp and improve them. 
To most young men entering upon the duties of their pro- 
fession, for the first few years after graduation, the prospect 
before them is most perplexing. They see every avenue to 
prosperity thronged with their superiors in experience, in 
social advantages, and in the possession of all the elements 
and conditions of success. Every post is occupied, every 
office filled, every path crowded;—where shall they find 
room ? 
It is related of Mr. Webster, that when a young lawyer 
suggested to him that the profession to which he had devoted 
himself was overcrowded, the great man replied, “Young 
man, there is always room enough at the top.” Dr. Holland, 
who relates this circumstance, says there never was a wiser 
or more suggestive word. There undoubtedly is always JOSEPH TABER JOHNSON, A. M., M. I). 
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room enough where true excellence lives. Mr. Webster was 
not troubled for lack of room. Mr. Clay and Mr. Calhoun 
were never crowded. Mr. Evarts, Mr. Cushing, Mr. O'Con- 
nor, have plenty of space about them. Or. Brown-Sequard, 
Or. Marion Sims, Or. Fordyce Barker, are not troubled for 
space for their elbows. When Neleton died in Paris he died 
like Moses, upon a mountain, and when Yon Graaf died in 
Berlin, he had no neighbor in his altitude. There is another 
point which ought not to be overlooked in the treatment of 
this subject, especially at this particular time in the history 
of our country, and in this city, where so much political and 
diplomatic rbanagement is required to secure justice and re- 
ward merit, while at the same time it as frequently succeeds 
in making the lesser appear the greater good. “Young 
men look about them and see a great measure of worldly 
success awarded to men without principle.” They see the 
trickster crowned with public honors, they see the swindler 
rolling in wealth over our pavements, out of which, and out 
of us, they have accumulated their ill-gotten gain. “They 
see the sharp man, the unprincipled man, the overreaching 
man, the liar, the time-server, the demagogue, the scoundrel 
who cunningly manages, carrying off the prizes of wealth 
and place. All this is a demoralizing puzzle and a fearful 
temptation, and multitudes of young men are not strong 
enough to stand before it. They ought to understand that 
in this wicked world there is a great deal of room where 
there is integrity. “Great trusts may be-sought by scoun- 
drels, (and we are so unfortunate in this respect as to live in 
the atmosphere of this kind of corruption much of our time,) 
but great trusts never seek them, and perfect integrity is at 
a premium even among scoundrels. There are some trusts 
which they never will confer upon each other. There are 
occasions when they need the services of true men, and they 
do not find them in shoals and in the mud, but alone and 
in pure water.” 
No exalted medical standing in this or any other commu- 
nity can be acquired and maintained except by a free ex- 16 
ADDRESS OF 
penditure of hard work. We are informed by successful 
men that when really hard medical or any literary work is 
reduced to a system, it becomes less a work and more of a 
pleasure, for in any man, however brilliant he may have 
become, the habit itself is more of a conquest gained by 
self-discipline than a quality conferred by nature. It is 
more an acquired than an original power and attribute of 
the mind. The finished and perfect statue can only be 
elaborated from the block by hundreds and thousands of 
patient and assiduous strokes of the chisel. Your profes- 
sional character and knowledge can only be elaborated 
by a similar course of unremitting diligence and labor. 
For in medicine, as in other avocations, be assured that no 
man ever reached, and that no man ever can reach, great 
reputation and great excellence without great exertion. 
One of the greatest physicians of this century declares that 
“with the necessary exertion the humblest among us are 
certain to rise, without it the highest among us are just as 
certain to fall.” Yo' man ever became a Hunter without 
work. Yo man ever became an Erichsen without work. 
Ho man ever became a Mott, a Meigs, a Flint, without hard, 
unremitting, work, and none of us in Washington can find a 
more royal road to learning, to skill, or to a high place in 
the esteem of our fellow citizens. 
In glancing over the biography of one of the most busy 
and successful physicians in Yew York during our revolu- 
tionary struggle,*we are informed that “the career of I)r. 
David Hossack will ever remain, to the youth of the country 
a bright example of the infiuence which industry, talent and 
energy have in the attainment of reputation and fame.” 
Dr. Hossack had continued after graduation habits of dili- 
gent study. The circumstance to which he in after life 
ascribed the beginning of his good fortunes was his sudden 
acquaintance with General Alexander Hamilton, the friend 
of Washington. Hamilton was so much pleased with the 
young doctor that he made him his family physician, and 
through his friends and acquaintances brought him almost JOSEPH TABER JOHNSON, A. M., M. I). 
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at once prominently into notice. Being worthy of all the 
trusts imposed, he rapidly became one of the foremost physi- 
cians of that great metropolis. This friendship of the gallant 
General would never have been bestowed and continued 
through life had it not been thoroughly deserved. No city 
is so favorable to-day for the formation of such valuable 
acquaintances and friendships as Washington. It remains 
for us to be worthy of them, and they will, they must of 
necessity come if we are so. 
There is no profession, however, in which persevering 
honesty and virtue is its own reward more than in ours. 
Great fortunes are seldom made by the practice of medicine. 
We have the authority, however, of Sir Benjamin Brodi for 
saying that “ no young physician who uses the means proper 
for the purpose will fail to succeed sufficiently to gratify a 
reasonable ambition.” “You must,” he says, “persevere, 
and you may do so in the full assurance that the reward, 
though possibly delayed for a time, yet it will surely come.” 
This prince of surgeons was, he writes to a friend, “at one 
time dismayed at the prospect before him, and almost dis- 
couraged.” lie persevered, however, and in after life from 
the top of the ladder of fame addressed these encouraging 
words to faint-hearted beginners just commencing to ascend. 
The biographies of distinguished medical men give us many 
examples of the rich rewards which follow honest, studious 
effort. Dr. John Clieyne, who about fifty years ago was by 
far the busiest and best employed physician in Dublin, tells 
us in his interesting autobiography that during the first half 
of his second year’s settlement in the Irish capital, and when 
lie had already reached the thirty-fourth year of his age, his 
fees only amounted to about three guineas. Nine years sub- 
sequently he was making £5,000 annually. Not above one 
or two physicians in London ever drew a larger professional 
income, or perhaps ever advanced more early into full prac- 
tice than Dr. Chambers, yet during the fifth year of his 
practice, when lie was already thirty-five years of age, he did 
not receive above £211 in fees; seventeen years subsequently 18 
ADDRESS OF 
his annual professional income is stated to have reached 
nearly £9,000. His great predecessor in London practice, 
Dr. Matthew Baillie, drew above £11,000 in one year, and 
yet, with all the interest of the Hunters and others to aid 
him in his outset, his march upwards was, like that of all 
others, very slow and difficult, and before he found himself 
fairly established in practice he had been already for twelve 
years physician to St. George’s Hospital, and for nearly twenty 
years a medical lecturer. The great Hunter, who later in 
life founded the Hunterian Museum, was once obliged to 
postpone for two weeks the commencing of his third session 
of lectures in consequence of his not having money enough 
to pay the expense of the usual class advertisements. 
In 1788 we learn that the son of an English clergyman 
attended the medical classes at Edinboro University, and 
lived in rooms in Bristo street, which cost him three shil- 
lings and sixpence a week. In after life, when swaying the 
surgical sceptre of England as Sir Astley Cooper, his pro- 
fessional income, in a single year, amounted to £23,000; and 
yet during the first twelve months after he settled down in 
London as a lecturer on anatomy and surgery, his receipts 
from private practice only’ amounted to live guineas. 
Thus it is, gentlemen of the Alufnni, and gentlemen of 
the graduating class, that faithful, hard working, studious 
men climb, step by step, through the envious, crowded path- 
ways of life to the “top,” where, according to Webster, 
“there is plenty of room,” and where fame and glory and 
fortune await them; and thus it is I would have you, many, 
all of you if possible, by the same, and only true process, 
work your way up into that purer and more cultured atmos- 
phere nearer the “top.” Thus it will be as the individual 
Alumni take rank, they will reflect back credit upon their 
alma mater. They will add lustre to its renown as they 
brighten their own. I would see our Alumni Society in the 
future famous by the borrowed fame of its great men. I 
would see it the pride and the glory of its members, increas- 
ing in power and influence because of the fame of its mem- JOSEPH TABER JOHNSON, A. M., M. D. 
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bers. I would see it banded firmly together and working 
earnestly for the advancement of medical science, the inter- 
ests of its members, and the future growth and welfare of 
the parent College. THE ADDRESS 
0? 
John M. Green, M. I)., 
Valedictorian of the Class of 1875. 
Ladies and Gentlemen: 
The last scene in the last act of the College drama is fin- 
ished. The initial ceremonies, wedding a band of associates 
and fellow students sacred cause of humanity and 
science, are concluded. It were scarcely necessary for the 
class to tender a heartfelt greeting after the welcome ex- 
tended by the Faculty orator. 
To the -public the occasion seems but a regularly recurring 
event; to us it is an era, and eagerly, earnestly have we 
looked forward to the present moment as indicating the 
pleasures of hope realized. It signalizes the first grand 
epoch of our career. The decision of the Faculty has been 
announced, and henceforth we are enrolled in that long list 
of human benefactors that extends in an unbroken chain 
back to the days of heroes and demi gods, and whose earliest 
traditions blend with the mythological romance of ancient 
worship. The healing art has existed since time imme- 
morial, and is inseparably associated with civilization with 
which it has marched handclasped in common with other 
branches of knowledge. The great minds of successive ages 
have lent their radiance to illumine the paths wherein we 
tread. 
Assyria, Phoenicia, Egypt, nurtured its infancy, and from 
the latter it winged its flight to Greece, where arose those ADDRESS OF JOHN M. GREEN, M. D. 
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brilliant expounders and successful investigators into the 
arcana of nature. Rome at a subsequent period furnished 
numerous devotees at nature’s altar, and the names of Galen, 
Aretaeus, Aurelianus and Soranus stand prominent. The 
results of their labors furnished a basis upon which has been 
erected a superstructure, grand in its proportions and won- 
derful in design. 
Schools of medicine and philosophy established by Pytha- 
goras, and Ins followers existed.it Rhodes, Cnidus, Sais, Cos 
flourished, and the latter gave birth to Hippocrates, whose 
persevering, systematic talents shall ever render his name 
synonymous with medicine. Ilis advent marked an era, 
and the genius of medicine, bursting the fetters that bound 
her to the superstitious and absurd practices of antiquity, 
issued forth for the benefit of mankind, and enlisted in her 
cause the greatest minds of the age. Countless have been 
their followers and emulators, and though they passed away 
ere they saw their life-work accomplished, they have left 
to the admiring gaze of the student of history and scientific 
investigator 
“ Images and thoughts that could but live 
And would not die.” 
To throw off the shackles that sorcery, chiromancy, 
alchemy, empiricism had imposed were a matter of no easy 
task, and at a period too when they were even doubting or 
holding in uneven balance self-evident truths and facts. 
Vestiges, and not a few, still remain to mark their progress 
and decline, a sad comment upon a civilization characterized 
by such marvelous aud surprising advances in the domains 
of scientific culture. 
The mind in its extensive circlings finds no more pro- 
found and delightful theme for contemplation than the grand 
mystery life presents. Rature in the very lowest organ- 
ism furnishes abundant material to excite the admiration and 
rivet the attention. The vital principle holding in abeyance 
the life of all creatures is an element more subtle, difficult 
of comprehension, and, consequently, requires closer scrutiny 22 
ADDRESS OF 
and more searching investigation than all beside. It suffers 
not imitation, no matter how insatiable the enthusiasm or 
how ingeniously the experiments are contrived, and is ex- 
emplified from our own perfect organization down to the 
primordial cell. Homogeneous in all animated creation, it 
exerts its peculiar influence from the mastodon, mammoth 
down to the polyp that builds the coral reefs in the “distant 
dark blue ocean,” to the Medusa that sparkles in the briny 
wave, shedding its phosphorescent light in streaming splen- 
dor, to the velvety lichen that covers the time-worn rock, 
exhibiting the very lowest form of life, 
“ From link to link 
It circulates, the soul of all the worlds.” 
The theory of the origin and evolution of life, bewilder- 
ing scientists, enlisting the genius and talents of a Huxley, 
a Spencer, a Tyndall, and many more, only interests us in 
the abstract, it is more particularly our duty to preserve it 
in its beauty and vigor. 
The smallest single monad proves the subject matter of 
most intense interest. How much more so niust be the 
most perfect and complex structure of man, indeed “fear- 
fully and wonderfully made.” 
With Buffon, we may exclaim that man brings together 
within himself, all the powers of nature, possessing those 
distinguishing characteristics, placing him pre-eminently 
above all others in the animal kingdom, the high attributes 
of reason, intellect, soul, bringing him into communion 
with a world separate and distinct from the world of sense. 
He controls the destinies of nations, wields the sceptre of 
royalty, holds the reins of government, and enjoys the 
bounteous favor of Providence, doing good to his fellow 
man, and exalting by rational discipline, his own character 
and the condition of the race. Naturally then, must the 
skill of the physician be recognized and indelibly impressed 
in counteracting disease, supporting the tottering throne of 
reason and placing judgment on the high seat. 
The causes aiding to retard the progressive tendency of JOHN M. GREEN, M. D. 
23 
medicine, sanctioned by public applause and encouragement, 
are more than few. Scepticism, true to the Pyrrhonian phil- 
osophy, proves one of the most formidable. The many de- 
vices of the typographical art assist wonderfully. The 
flaring poster, in blazoned and gorgeous colors, attracts the 
attention and captivates the unsuspecting. The public press 
contributes its mighty influence to till the coffers of charla- 
tans, to the corresponding detriment of deserving, able and 
skillful physicians. Evil and designing men, shielded by a 
title undeserved, play upon the credulity of the laity, and 
promulgate their absurd heresies and doctrines, plausible to 
the untutored mind, which die not with their authors, but, 
Arethusa like, having lost their current in one place, appear 
again in another. 
Various systems and theories of practice have arisen and 
vanished like exhalations. Hydropathy and numerous other 
“ pathies,” shall share the same fate, including the last and 
greatest delusion, homoeopathy, which claims, as did the 
famous Dr. Ilornbrook, to 
“So fortify the part, 
That when death looked to his dart, 
It was so blunt 
It never could have pierced the heart.’' 
The regular profession has been fostered and sustained by 
unswerving fidelity to rational principles. Discarding every- 
thing bearing upon it the impress of charlatanism, or un- 
able to stand the test of scientific investigation. It does not 
pretend, although accused, to reconcile vice and intemper- 
ance with health and comfort, the strict adherence to hygi- 
enic laws and conditions, added to an innate love of religi- 
ous principles, only avails here; vice and intemperance 
must ever be the twin sisters of disease and death. 
Rational medicine never fails to inculcate that we are the 
interpreters, not the masters, of nature; that it is able, in 
numberless instances and in divers ways, to give such ad- 
vice and counsel, as will assist the vis mcdicatrix naturce, by 
ministering such remedies and appliances as the necessities 24 
ADDRESS OF 
and circumstances of the emergency demand. It does all 
that it claims, and though the Rosicrucian dream has never 
been realized, myriads of human beings, racked and tor- 
tured by ills the tiesli is heir to, have been rescued from the 
grasp of the destroying angel and restored to health and 
happiness. 
How many there are who owe their existence to its timely 
aid and support, and how few they are who appreciate the 
labors of the true physician, fully illustrates that 
“God and the Doctor we alike adore, 
Only when in danger, not before: 
The danger o’er, both are alike requited, 
God is forgotten and the Doctor slighted.” 
Ever willing have been the votaries of medicine to afford 
their best efforts for the benefit of their fellow man, alike in 
the mansions of the rich, the hovels of the poor, in courts 
of famine and palaces of luxury, they ply their art. Regard 
for self has ever been a secondary consideration, giving the 
same attention to all, indiscriminately. Their daily visits 
lead where impending 
“ Death, 
The pale monarch sits 
In unsubstantial majesty.” 
Few comprehend the hardships, the privations and endless 
labors of a medical life, and actual statistical computations 
have given them the lowest average longevity among the pro- 
fessions. Silently they perform their duties, and as silently 
depart, leaving a name proportioned to their merits. 
In what an astonishing acre have we made our debut in 
the great arena of professional life, how many theories or 
systems, hoary with age, to whose difficult solution thou- 
sands have devoted their lives, have been overturned or ex- 
plained by the intellects that have made the 19th century 
the most brilliant one in the annals of science. In the words 
of Disraeli, “ science within the last fifty years has had 
much more influence in moulding the world than any politi- 
cal causes, and has changed the position and prospects of JOHN M. GREEN, M. 1>. 
25 
mankind more than all the conquests and all the*codes and 
all the legislators that ever lived.” 
The geologist is diving into the very depths of the earth 
and disclosing the different strata composing it. The as- 
tronomer’s telescope penetrates farther into the realms of 
illimitable space. The metaphysician argues with greater 
scientific exactness. The chemist subjects everything to the 
test of the crucible. Spectrum analysis promises to reveal 
substances as yet unrecognizable, while the anatomist and 
pathologist, microscope in hand, wait upon nature at her 
very fountain head, and almost gaze, as it were, upon 
formative creation. Various instruments are devised, each 
possessing their own peculiar advantages, exhibiting more 
forcibly than words could express the onward march of 
medicine. 
Disease is but a step from health, and but a step to the 
grave. Insidious and unmistakable precursors mark its ap- 
proach. The mind that has quaffed the waters and drank 
deep draughts of the Pierian spring, finds a diminished 
power of concentration. The beautifully symmetrical form 
which seems the very embodiment of health wastes away 
under the influence of the fell destroyer. Different senses, 
or certain functions are altered, all tending to the same end. 
The prevention of such alterations, and the preservation of 
health fully attest the value and importance of the profes- 
sion to the community. 
The physician, in this day, has a higher duty to perform 
than the simple administration of a medicine, or some 
sweet oblivious antidote. It devolves upon him, as a sanita- 
rian and benefactor of humanity, that the interests of the 
public health shall be of paramount importance, and he 
should become an instructor of the populace in the results 
of his observations. This fact is being realized, and the 
establishment of Boards of Health fully exhibits the inter- 
est of the laity in the absolute necessity for such institu- 
tions. 
The great march of progress, distinguishing all the arts 26 
ADDKESS OF 
and sciences, has given birth to new facts, and put to flight 
the theories of the purely speculative philosopher. An 
impetus has been given to human research, which has 
discovered new paths for the efforts of the earnest investi- 
gator. It has pointed out, in the invisible world of thought, 
data that shall be valuable accessions, and has developed a 
confidence in natural abilities such as will eventually place 
medicine where it should be, among the certain and fixed 
sciences. Perfection is not to be hoped for, as such does not 
characterize the works of man. “It is doubtful whether we 
have reached the border line in any subject of learned in- 
quiry or department of scientific investigation.” 
Upon the public devolves, in a great measure, the success 
of all endeavors, and particularly true is it of medicine. 
The people shofihl be instructed in the laws of hygiene and 
physiology. With all the boasted intelligence of this age, 
when thousands can inform you in geology, the motions of 
the planets, the correlation and conservation of forces, can 
quote or read Aeschylus, Virgil, Homer, or the other classics 
perfectly, there are but few who are actually acquainted with 
the simplest sanitary laws. 
In diet, dress, customs, habits and fashions the true dic- 
tates of science are set at naught, and consequently we have 
disease the rule and health the exception. Such ought not, 
should not, be the case, and the only remedy lies in the 
general diffusion of proper intelligence among the masses. 
The physician recognizes the power of woman’s hand in 
the treatment and cure of disease. The support imparted 
by her in many acts of benevolence and self-sacrifice accom- 
plishes as much as medication. Possessing that “meek 
charity that shrinks not from distress,” she assumes a post 
that affection robs of all its weariness. Iler eyes, often beam- 
ing with a look of cheerfulness she cannot feel, and encour- 
aging the hope she cannot confidently share, she scatters 
sunshine in her path and throws a veil of gladness around 
the sufferer’s couch that robs disease of half its misery. 
The great achievements of modern medicine as exhibited JOHN M. GREEN, M. D. 
27 
in the discovery of the circulation, rendering the name of 
Harvey immortal; the employment of anaesthetics crown- 
ing Simpson, Morton and Wells with laurels evergreen. 
The perfection of physical exploration redounding enduring 
fame toLaennec; the introduction of vaccination, and its 
wonderful influence in controlling the most loathsome of 
scourges, inscribing the name of Jenner in every household 
and heart. 
The brilliant and successful investigations of the German, 
French and English physicians of the present day, marvelous 
and wonderful, are possibly fully equaled by their transat- 
lantic brethren, America pointing with just and honest pride 
to many names shedding an undying lustre and brilliance 
upon not alone medicine, but all the arts and sciences. 
Experiment and demonstration proclaim the philosophy 
of the age, and the many contributions of mechanical skill 
and ingenuity and numerous additions to the materia medicay 
all illustrate that ignorance, bigotry and superstition, form- 
ing an unholy trinity, are slowly, but surely, receding 
before the irresistible influences of religion, learning and 
true philosophy. 
Revered President : 
In receiving from your hands the evidence and stamp of 
our ability, we can only, as yet, express our obligations and 
love for our alma mater, with the hope that we may prove 
offspring worthy and creditable. Happy indeed are we to 
be scions of a mother ever anxious that the humblest of her 
sons should be an object of her special care. May she pros- 
per for all time, and may her medical department continue 
to merit the high appreciation and encouragement it has 
always received. 
Gentlemen of the Faculty: 
The relations that have heretofore bound us are to-day 
dissolved. Never have we realized so fully as at the pre- 
sent moment the strength of the ties which linked us in 28 
ADDRESS OF 
heart and feeling. To-day, profiting by your teachings and 
admonitions, we have reached the goal of expectation. In 
performing the last duty of our class, I fain would give ut- 
terance to the feelings of gratitude cherished by each of us 
toward you. Other classes will come and go, other friend- 
ships and affections will weave their meshes round you, 
other themes and associations will cluster round your pro- 
gress through life, still we claim a bright spot in your 
memory, a reserved portion of your hearts. 
The generous expressions, and words of encouragement 
uttered by you, through your representative orator, will ever 
remain as never fading stars in our memories. The earnest, 
valuable advice will ever recur to us, and when in life’s 
stormy sea, tossed about by the winds of adversity, they will 
be as the beacon lights, guiding our frail barks in safety 
through the billowy surge. When 
“ With stumbling steps along the dubious maze, 
Tracing with half seen thread the darksome ways,” 
they will be as gentle music wafted in mellow cadence, bid- 
ding us hope, toil on, persevere, success and reputation must 
crown deserved efforts. 
Should any of us, in future years, return to greet our 
alma mater, may we bring with us the trophies of a life well 
spent, filled to repletion with scientific knowledge and 
honors, the germs of which we have been fortunate to im- 
bibe from your vast stores. We trust we have been faithful 
and industrious students. Our labors have always been 
those of love for our profession, and devotion to yourselves. 
May Providence shower its greatest, divinest favors, may 
you be spared to assist many future classes in the arduous 
and difficult task of mastering our beloved profession, and 
may your names “ go sounding down the ages,” rich in 
reputation and surrounded by a halo radiant with worthy 
deeds. It is difficult for one voice to utter the love and 
admiration that is welling up and bubbling forth from all 
these several hearts. They, individually, will grasp your JOHN M. GREEN, M. D. 
29 
hand and utter the parting word. The bright, joyous scenes 
of our student life must now forever cease. 
“Like the shadows of night at the dawning of day, 
Like a tale that is told, they vanish away.’’ 
Farewell. 
Gentlemen of the Alumni Association : 
En welcoming us as fellow-graduates, you will accept our 
hearty appreciation of the honor. We hope to become de- 
serving and useful acquisitions to your phalanx of worthy 
and prominent physicians. 
Gentlemen of the Junior Class : 
In severing the connections of the past, it is not without 
a pang of sorrow. In loosening the ties that friendship has 
60 firmly interwoven, we cannot help regret the necessity 
that bids us part. Your kindness shall never be forgotten, 
and we trust that the many acts of generosity that have 
characterized your demeanor to us, will be extended by fu- 
ture classes to you. We wish particularly to return thanks 
for your chivalric attention to our friends to-day. 
The successful prosecution of the study of medicine de- 
pends upon your own exertions. Deserve what you aspire 
to, and time will bring its rich rewards. Memory and hope 
must supplant the keen sense of our present separation, 
and the happy hours spent in your society will ever remain 
as perennial fountains reviving pleasant reminiscences of 
happy by-gone days. Farewell. 
Fellow-Classmates : 
Can it be that we, too, must separate? Can it bo that 
the electric chain linking each heart together shall hence- 
forth cease to complete its circuit? The thought, however 
repulsive, is nevertheless true. Companions in college life, 
co-laborers in the same vineyard, our immediate task is 
finished. Be impressed, and let it be written in characters 
of adarqant, that to-day but commences our career as real, 
earnest, conscientious students, seeking in every direction 30 
ADDRESS OF 
to discern the truth and cluster the gems of our noble pro- 
fession. 
We should evince our devotion by unceasing, untiring 
industry and application. Seek the least frequented paths; 
mediocrity always hovers o’er routine practitioners. Hav- 
ing caught the spirit of the age, strive on; and though our 
advance may not always march to the music of four aspira- 
tions, and disappointment and despair stare us, nevertheless, 
eventually will be accorded that reward that always crowns 
true merit, the praise and approbation of our fellow-man. 
There awaits you, if yon but pursue them, honors as great 
as decked the brow of Podalirus or Hippocra- 
tes, of ancient times, or of Jenner, Simpson or Nelaton, of 
modern. Reputation depends not upon the evanescent 
applause of the multitude—peers alone are able to estimate 
our abilities. Cultivate the friendship and society of your 
fellow physicians. Medical associations, whether national 
or local, are of inestimable advantage to the young physi- 
cian, bringing him into co-relation with the profession, and 
strengthening the ties and bonds wrought by a common 
brotherhood in a common cause. Hygiene and sanitary 
laws, questions agitating the world of medicine, should 
claim an important share of our attention. 
Quackery, in all its protean shapes, must be abhorred, 
wherever or on whatever occasion it may intrude. 
Providence appoints us artificers of our own fortunes. 
Diligence, integrity of character, enterprise and ceaseless 
perseverance must be our traits. These qualities must be 
part and parcel of our natures* one or other of them has 
prompted every worthy deed of history and governed every 
discovery of science. They inspired Harvey to resist the 
opposing influences of his time; nerved Jenner, and assisted 
Bell in elaborating his grand discoveries. 
The magnificent portals of the Temple of Science are 
opened to us. We stand upon the threshold, and in retro- 
spect appear flashing as meteors through a darkened sky 
the golden hours passed. In endeavoring to penetrate the JOHN M. GREEN, M. 1). 
31 
misty veil of the future doubt and uncertainty arise. Do 
not, however, he alarmed; let us throw aside our golden 
fantasies and dreams and commence to advance. There 
lies concealed within 
“Many a gem of purest ray serene,” 
that needs but the quick eye and ready hand of industrious 
youth to discover. 
We are bewildered, as it were, when we reflect that true 
medical science is a modern institution. That for ages men 
groped their way in darkness, without daring to dissect a 
human body, that the most absurd and imperfect ideas as to 
its mechanism and construction were entertained, that the 
edicts of Galen held undisputed sway for ages, that the only 
mode recognized or known by the dignitaries of Rome to 
control a pestilence was in erecting a temple to 
or driving a nail in the Capitol; that all the grandest dis- 
coveries have been the outgrowth of a few centuries should 
be an incentive to push still farther, and penetrate still 
deeper into the recesses of nature, seeking her innermost 
haunts and exposing to the broad light of day her most 
favored secrets. 
Microscopy in this era almost enables us to trace every 
link of morbid action, and expose to view the minutest 
atoms of living organisms. Look well to the foundation 
stones, upon these depend the strength and durability of the 
structure. Labor intellectually, and do not allow the minor 
details, the fine aesthetic touches of science to escape scru- 
tiny. To add one stone, to inscribe one fact in the temple 
of medicine will redound enduring laurels and world-wide 
fame. Philanthropy and charity, “earth’s link to heaven,” 
must he predominant characteristics. Entertain an exalted 
view of our profession, be jealous of its interests, and ready 
to defend its honor. AVe would not deserve to succeed did 
we lack these qualities. Principle will be our security. Be 
honest in communication with patients. ISTo avocation, no 
relation places one in such intimate and confidential associ- 
ation with family circles. 32 
ADDRESS OF JOHN M. GREEN, M. D. 
Oar merits will proclaim our capabilities. Seek not, by 
means dark and dishonorable, to gain popularity. Remem- 
ber that ill-gotten fame and false glitter fade with the first 
rays of living truth, and, like the fabled echo, die away into 
empty sound. 
Gentlemen, in departing and separating, different desti- 
nies await us all. Resist temptations, they will be many. 
It might be said that medical science and art is a 
“Golden and fatal circle, 
Upon whose magic skirts a thousand devils, 
In crystal forms sit, tempting innocence, 
And beckoning early virtue from its centre.” 
All seems, however, propitious. Our alma mater sends us 
forth with the highest encomiums, our own self-conscious- 
ness encourages, and beauty showers her most radiant smile. 
Have no fear for the superstructure; the tempests of calumny 
may assail it, the floods of ignorance and superstition deal 
roughly with it, but its foundations are too firm, and bid de- 
fiance to all opposing causes. 
“The feeble sea birds, blinded by the storms, 
On some tall lighthouse dash their little forms, 
And the nude granite scatters for their pains 
Those small deposits, that were meant for brains; 
Yet the proud fabric, in the morning sun, 
Stands all unconscious of the mischief done, 
Nay, shines all radiance o’er the scattered fleet, 
Of gulls and boobies, brainless at its feet.” 
Now, farewell. ’Tis a sad, bitter word, and harbingers the 
ruthless dissolution of firm friendships and pleasant associa- 
tions. The heart finds itself unable to give utterance to the 
feelings that overwhelm it. It dare not trust to words its 
fondest hopes and purest affections. It can only breathe the 
fervent prayer to the Being that shapes our fortunes, that 
Ilis hand may guide us, His friendship be our safeguard, and 
His blessing attend our future pathway in life. Farewell. GRADUATES. 
CLASS OF 1875. 
BOARDMAN, MYRON, Tritmansburg, N. Y. 
Bromide of Potassium. 
GREEN, JOHN MATTHEW Washington, D. C. 
White Blood Corpuscle. 
HARVEY, LEVIN ALLEN, .... Moorefield, Ohio. 
Phthisis Pulmonalis. 
KELLY, DANIEL JAMES, A. M., . . . Lancashire, England. 
Inflammation. 
STEPHENSON, JOSEPH GWYNN, . . . Washington, D. C. 
Intermittent Fever. 
THOMPSON, JOHN HARRY, Jr., ... Washington, D. C. 
Action of the Heart. STUDENTS. 
ADAMS, EDWARD II U. S. Naval Hospital. 
ADAMS, W., Maryland. 
ANGLES, MIGUEL, Italy. 
BECKETT, FRANK 0„ Williamstown, Ya. 
BINNS, DOUGLAS, Chillicothe, Ohio. 
BOARDMAN, MYRON, ...... TrumanSburg, N. Y. 
BOYCE, WALTER J., . . . . . . Washington, D. C. 
BRANDEBURY, L. A., Ohio. 
BRASSLER, CHARLES A Maryland. 
BRIDGET!', JOSEPH F., Washington, D. C. 
BROOKS, W. II., Washington, D. C. 
BROWN, THEODORE V., Washington, D. C. 
BUSIINELL, J. HOWARD, Washington, D. C. 
BUTTS, EDWARD A., Washington, D. C. 
CARROLL, rillLIP -Savannah, Ga. 
CHRISTIAN, M. 0., Cleveland, Ohio. 
DOBSON, L., Cherokee Nation, 1. T. 
EATON, J. S. J., Elkhorn, Wis. 
EICI1ELBERGER, F. T.. Baltimore, Md. 
.ELLIS, C. C New York. 
EVANS, THOMAS II., Great Britain. 
FRANZ, C. F. L., . . . • . . Philadelphia, Pa. 
FRANK, E. B., Washington, D. C. 
FUG1TT, LEMUEL, Washington, D. C. 
GREEN, JOHN M., Washington, D. C. 
GEDNEY", C. D., Washington, D. C. 
GEENNA, ARTHUR, Washington, D. C. 
GIESEIvING, HENRY, Washington, D. C. 
GLENNAN, A. II., ' Washington, D. C. 
GRIEBLE, GEORGE II., Prussia. 
HAYES, NOAH, . . • Cadiz, Indiana. 
HARVEY, L. A., Ohio. 
HAZEN, W. P. C., U. S. Naval Hospital. 
IlICKOX, MILTON, Columbia Hospital. STUDENTS 
35 
HOWARD, EDWIN, Washington, D. C. 
JACOBSON, C., Denmark. 
JEWELL, JOHN A., ...... Washington, D. C. 
KELLY, DANIEL JAMES, A. M., . . . Lancashire, Eng. 
LATHAM, .JAMES T. Missouri. 
LAVENDER, JOHN A., ..... Oswego, N. Y. 
LEACH, E. W., . . . . . . . Massachusetts. 
LETCHER, J. B., Virginia. 
LEWIS, JAMES, ....... New Hampshire. 
LINN, SAMUEL F., ..... Georgetown, D. 0. 
MAJOR, T. ELWOOD. ...:.. Hilsboro, Ohio. 
MARR, S. S., Maryland. 
MARTIN. .J. LEWIS, Philadelphia, Pa. 
MARTIN. JAMES, Jr Washington, D. C. 
MASI, E. P.. . . . . . . . . Washington, D. C. 
McLEOD, WILFRED, Georgetown, D. C. 
MILLER, NORMAN B., . . . . . . Virginia. 
MORGAN, CARROLL, A. B., . . . . Washington, D. C. 
NEWMAN, H. M. '. Washington, D. C. 
PATTERSON, J. FRED., Middletown, N. Y, 
PATTERSON, JAMES B Pennsylvania. 
PROCTER, WALTER, Washington, D. C. 
REID, L. H., ........ North Carolina. 
ROBERSON, THOMAS, Savannah, Ga. 
ROSS, F. W., . . . . . . . . Washington, D. C. 
ROWLAND, J. S., Washington, D. €. 
SPEAR, ADRIAN, ....... Virginia City, Nevada 
STACK, MAURICE J., Washington, D. C. 
STEPHENSON, JOSEPH G., Washington, D. C. 
STERNE, WILLIAM H., . . . . Pittsburgh, Pa. 
STOKES, GEORGE W., ...... Moorestown, N. J. 
TABER, ALVA S., ..... Washington, D. C. 
TATE, SAMUEL W., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
THOMPSON, J. HARRY, Jr Washington, D. C. 
VERIIOFF, WILHELM H., Germany. 
WESTCOTT, J. B., New York. 
WHITE, WILLIAM, ...... Pennsylvania. 
WILLIAMS, C. E., New Orleans, La. OF 
01 uirev'jitG. 
TWENTY-SIXTH MEDICAL SESSION, 1874 ’75 
College Corner of Tenth and J? Streets, 
WASHINGTON, D. O. 
NOBLE YOUNG, A. M., M. D., President. 
ELODOARDO HOWARD, A. M., M. D., Ph. D., Treasurer. 
JOHNSON ELIOT, A. M., M. D., Ph. D., Dean. 
FACULTY. 
NOBLE YOUNG, A. M., M. D., 
Professor of Principles and Practice of Medicine, General Pathology and Medical Ethics. 
FLODOARDO HOWARD, A. M., M. D., Ph. D., 
Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children. 
JOHNSON ELIOT, A. M., M. D., Pit. D., 
Professor of Principles and Practice of Surgery. 
JAMES E. MORGAN, A. M.t M. D., 
Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, and Medical Jurisprudence. 
J. HARRY THOMPSON, A. M., M. D., 
Professor of Diseases of Women and Clinical Surgery. 
ROBERT REYBURN, A. M.t M. D., 
Professor of Histology, Microscopy, and Clinical Surgery. 
BENJ. S. HEDRICK, M. A., Ph. D., 
Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology. 
WARWICK EVANS, M. D., 
Professor of Anatomy. 
RALPH WALSH, M. D., 
Professor of Physiology and Diseases of the Eye and Ear. 
CHARLES V. BOARMAN, A. M., M. D., 
HOWARD H. BARKER, M. D., 
Demonstrators of Anatomy. 
PARKE G. YOUNG, M. D., 
Prosector to the Chair of Anatomy. Summer Session. 
FACIILT Y. 
W. H. ROSS, M. D., 
Clinical Lecturer, Diseases of the Head and Abdomen. 
H. II. BARKER, M. D., 
Clinical Lecturer, Diseases of Women. 
C. V. BOARMAN, M. D., 
Clinical Lecturer, Diseases of the Throat, Heart, and Lungs. 
W. C. BRISCOE, M. D., 
Clinical Lecturer on Surgery. 
C. H. A. KLEINSCHMIDT, M. D., 
Clinical Lecturer, Diseases of the Eye and Ear. 
J. WALTER, M. D., 
Clinical Lecturer, Diseases of Children. 
The Summer Session will begin April 15, and end July 15, 1875. 
The Course of Instruction will embody Clinics and Examinations, to 
be held on three days of each week, from 6 to 8 P. M. 
PROSPECTUS. 
The Regular Course will begin October 6th, and end in the following 
March. 
The Lectures are delivered daily at 5:30 P. M. This arrangement has 
been found most convenient for the students, especially for those who are 
employed in the various Government Departments. 
The College Buildings contain spacious Lecture Rooms and all other con- 
veniences requisite for the prosecution of the study of Medicine and Surgery. 
Clinical Instruction.—During the course ample opportunity will be 
afforded the students for Clinical Instruction, which is free to the Matricu- 
lants of the Institution. This instruction will be furnished at the different 
hospitals of the city; and, besides the Clinical Lectures there given, a Dispen- 
sary connected with the College Building affords great facilities for the study 
of disease. It will thus be seen that this valuable element of teaching is a 
chief feature in the curriculum. 
Dissections.—Abundant accommodations and material will be provided 
for the prosecution of Practical Anatomy and Surgical Operations upon the 
cadaver. The dissecting-room is a large, convenient, and well-ventilated 
apartment, furnished with gas and water. 38 
PROSPECTUS. 
Museums.—The Army Medical Museum, adjacent to the College Build- 
ing, contains the most valuable collection of Surgical and Medical Patholog- 
ical Specimens in the world, and embodies the results of the medical and 
surgical experience gathered from the various hospitqls and battle-fields of 
the late war. This collection is constantly being increased. The Smithson- 
ian Museum, which has a national reputation, contains one of the finest col- 
lections of Zoological Specimens on the continent, thus affording ample oppor- 
tunities for the study of Natural History and Comparative Anatomy. Its 
collection of Crania is in itself an important feature. The Museum of the 
Agricultural Department, and its Conservatories, containing magnificent col- 
lections of tropical and semi-tropical plants, offer rare facilities to the student 
of Medical Botany. 
Libraries.—The Congressional Library, the largest in the country, open 
daily to the public, places within the reach of the student rare works which 
otherwise would be difficult to obtain. The Smithsonian Library, celebrated 
for its scientific volumes, can be reached with equal facility. The Library of 
the Army Medical Museum, solely devoted to medicine and surgery, contains 
nearly forty thousand volumes. This is adjacent to the College, and is open 
daily to the students. 
General Enles for the Candidates for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine. 
1. The Candidate must be of good moral character. 
2. He must have studied medicine not less than three years, during which 
he shall have attended two full courses of instruction, delivered in some 
regular Medical School, one of which shall have been in this Institution. 
3. He must have attended at least one course of Practical Anatomy, and 
one course of Clinical Instruction. 
4. He must have submitted to th% Faculty an acceptable thesis, in his own 
handwriting, on some medical subject, and must have subsequently passed a 
satisfactory examination. 
FEES FOR THE WINTER SESSION. 
For the Full Course of Lectures $135 
Matriculation 5 
Demonstrator 10 
Graduation 30 
Single Ticket 20 
Payment of fees is required at the commencement of the session. 
For further information apply to— 
JOHNSON ELIOT, M. D., Dean, 
No. 510 E Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. THE 
Medical Society of the alumni, 
OF 
GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. 
Officers of 1874-5. 
President. 
F. 0. ST. CLAIR, M. D. 
Vice Presidents. 
JOHN EDWIN MASON, M. D., 
G. LLOYD MAGRUDER, M. D., 
JOSEPH TABER JOHNSON, M. D., 
II. E. WOODBURY, M. D. 
Recording Secretary. 
THOMAS F. GIBBS, M. D. 
Corresponding Secretary. 
JOHN WALTER, Jr., M. D. 
Treasurer. 
JOSEPH A. TARKINGTON, M. D. 
Librarian. 
J. T. SOTHORON, M. D. 
Officers of 1875-6. 
President. 
JOSEPH TABER JOHNSON, M. D. 
Vice Presidents. 
THEODORE MEAD, M. D., 
C. V. N. CALLAN, M. D., 
J. T. SOTHORON, M. D., 
THOMAS F. GIBBS, M. D. 
Recording Secretary. 
CHARLES BITT1NGER, M. D. 
Corresponding Secretary. 
j. A. McCauley, m. d. 
Treasurer. 
JOSEPH A. TARKINGTON, M. D. 
Librarian. 
W. II. MINNICK, M. D. 
The Miedical Society of the Alumni was organized. 
March 21, 1809. 
It lias for its objects the advancement of Medical Science, the cultivation 
of fraternal feeling among its members, and the promotion of the best inter- 
ests of the Medical Department of the University.