AND SURGEONS OF INDIANA, Indianapolis, Ind. FIRST ANNUAL ANNOUNCEMENT. 1874-5. Session Commences Tuesday, Oct., 13, 1874, FACULTY. DAVID W. YANDELL, M. D. Prof. of the Science and Art of Surgery. JOHN E. LINK, M. D. R. N. TODD M. D. Prof. of Anatomy. Prof. of Principles and Practice of Medicine and Clinical Med. THEOPHILUS PARVIN, M. D. Prof of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children. R. E. HAUGHTON, M. D. Prof. of Physiology and Physiological Anatomy. JOSEPH ROGERS, M. D. G. V. WOOLEN, M. D. NATHAN MENDENHALL, M. S. C. TOMLINSON, M. D. Toxicology and Analytic Chemistry Demonstrator of Anatomy. Lecturer on Special Medico-legal Subjects. Lecturer on State Medicine and Hygiene. The Matriculation Demonstrators and Laboratory Tickets are required to be taken each year. Studens are requested to call at the Secretary's Office No. 35, East Market street, Indianapolis, when they arrive in the City, where all nece sary information will be furnished them. For Circulars, Address H. JAMESON, Secretary INRARKA JOURNAL OF MEDICINE EDITED BY THAD. M. STEVENS, M. D., INDIANAPOLIS. VOL. VI. MAY, 1875. No. 1. Original Communications. SYNOPSIS OF AN ADDRESS BY EZRA M. READ, M. D., PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD LADIES AND GENTLEMEN-It was only in the past autumn, that we convened in this city to inaugurate the beginning of "The College of Physicians and Surgeons" -now about to close its first session. It was not without distrust that an undertaking of such magnitude was thought of and commenced. It was with feelings of pride, however, that our plans were so skillfully made, that assurance of success was forced upon our minds, almost at the threshold of our existence-we felt the influence of the medical profession in the State of Indiana, invoking that success. Nor were we in a lesser degree insensible to the influences of the citizens of Indianapolis in their aid to this great professional enterprise. Above all, we had our own determined wills to succeed, and when the curators had selected a faculty individually so eminent in their respective branches, they were doubly assured of success, and if this night, we forever closed the college doors, its usefulness would still be manifest and influence felt in the future as now for the benefit of our race. Its teachings during the past winter can no more be blotted out than the flashings of the electric fluid from God's throne, eternal and all pervading, to which nothing can be put, from which nothing taken from it. It was the inception of the great undertaking that laid the lion in the pathway, but true courage rather seeks obstacles, and scarcely fails to remove them-the beginning is half finishing, or as our homely proverb expresses it, "well begun is half done." Those having the control and immediate interest in its success, are completely satisfied with the results of the first session of teaching which is now closing, and I have no hesitation in the declaration of its excellence, in all respects equal to that of the best ordered, best established institutions of the country, and it is the full interest of those controlling and interested in its destiny to see that it progresses to the highest usefulness. In an age like this no backward steps are to be taken, and if born in the whirlwind and nurtured in the storm, it will develop to greater strength and broader influence. And now, ladies and gentlemen, I trust that a few remarks personally addressed to you will not be untimely, not more for the good of this institution than for your own individual interest, not more for your own interest than for the interest of the human race. Those now present and those absent as well, can not but recognize the necessity and usefulness of medicine. Whereever the human race is to be found, there you will have disease and its frequent consequence, death. The economy of civilization, too, demands the guidance of this science for the public weal to protect against and save from disease those who aggregate communities and States, and to avert from death so far as may be by the aid of science skillfully applied. To the physician is intrusted your hopes of health, life and happiness-he is the mentor of the human race, its Star of Bethlehem, its "Cara Deûm Soboles," its "Salve Magna pancus." He is with you when you are born into the world, with you in all the trials of life, in the agonies of sickness and pain and sorrow, and goes with you into the dark valley of the shadow of death, the last human being to give you strength and hope. In the darkness of night, in the noon-day sun, in the cold and in the storm, he is your vigilant friend, hoping on, hoping ever. He softens the horrors of war, walks with the pestilence, with famine and with death. Others sleep, he toils with heavy lids and body worn and exhausted. Is all this for naught? Suppose this night, by enchantment if you please, that every physician in this city was borne beyond your call, would it bring you to the full realization of their usefulness or the need of their presence? How many trembling, hopeless, tearful mothers and wives, think you, would on bended knees implore their return? Is the profession of medicine, then, I repeat for naught? And to what sources do we ascribe the growth and perfection of this science and of medical men? It is by the aid of Medical Colleges, where all the apartments are provided for careful and thorough teaching in anatomy, in surgery, in the principles of medicine, the theory and practice of medicine, in obstetrics and its cognate branches, in physiology, in materia medica and chemistry, in all that widens up to properly prepare the student for the accomplished physician. This is the high and holy purpose of this and all other medical colleges. And has it no interest for you, none for the community, none for the commonwealth? If nothing more then, give this |