New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-03-21

i, 1859.
Commencement of the Medical Department.
OF the Universlty Of Louislana.
The closing exercises of the session Of 1880 OF
the Medical Department of the University Of Louis.
lana took place at Lyceum Hall on Saturday. AK.
ious to secure q good position on this interesting
occasion people began to flock to the hall nearly two
hours before the appointed time, and the grand
Overture de Guillaume Tell" sweed from the
orchestra Of H. Leon Provost in the gallery the hall
| and galleries were crowded with as many as they
could hold, large proportion Of those attending
being ladies. The central row of seats occupied
by the graduating class nearly hundred in number
whose names are published below, the stage being
| occupied by Professors of the College-Dr. Hunt,
Dean Of the Faculty; Drs. Cenas, RiddelI, Mott
Richardson, Jones, Chaille and Nichols-with other
gentlemen.
After the opening overture, DR.. Hunt called over
| the names Of the graduates, who rose one by one
until the whole number standing, when by "au-
thory Of the State under the seal of the University
of Louisiana, and by the power vested in him as
Dean of the College by the Faculty Of the Medical
Department" be conferred the degree of Doctor of
Medicine on the following gentlemen:
Cornelius F. O'Ne John G. Mestayer, John F.
Noodle, Robert A. Stewart, Benjamin B. Barnett,
Edmund h. Fournier, Ralph c. Galloway, Thomas
a. Lanier, James v. Talbert, Charles L. Tarleton,
Harry Percy, Geo. Q. Brosnaham, John 8. Gardner,
John Goodman, John ]. Roberts, David j. Smith,
James P. Oliver, Alexander P. Brede Patrick H.
Griffin, Francis NJ Trayor Joab B. Spears, Lewis Il.
Hill, Pinkney D. Chrissman, James n. Owens, Rich
ard L. Dunn, John J. Lyons, Sheldon Stringer, Will
liam Ofat, John H. Davis Calvin U. Silliman James
B. Knowles, James W. Wingate, James H. Mcdonald,
George w. Monroe, Wiley P. Smith, John s. Ste
pbens, Samuel A. Hill, Marshall Pope Alexander P
Hail. John B. P. Johnston, Zachariah J. Scott, John
N. Morrison, Augustus H. Moore, James G. Fears
| William A. Walton, Charles D. Lewis, Charles G.
Cowan, Rufus H. Fitzpatrick, James E. Reeves, John
| D. Smith, Peter L. Hammond, John W. Cothran
Isaiah G. W. Steedman, Elisha NJ. Harris, Alfred G
Tebault, Alexander 7. Howe, David F. McEacham
Samuel R. Davis James NJ Quincy, Peter Taylor
James ". Bennett, Virgil '. Madden, Lucius 1. Hol
combe, William J. Barron, William P. Finley, Thomas
Gaddis William L. Jones, David B. Turner, W lliam
2: Powell, James NJ Haynes, Daniel 8. Chesser
William D. Jennings, John p De Jarnette, Eenry F.
Wade, Thomas H. Castleton, *Auguste Leicher
James Moore, William 7 Haddox, Charles n. Erwin
James A. Jones, Samuel Meeker, James W. Oswald
Henry Snow, Edward Caire, Charles e. Buck, Joseph
| Stevens, James Burns, Rufus Il. Wooten, Numa
Lambert. William NJ. Mercer, James W. Saunders
| Martin D. Morgan John /. Oats, Andrew W. Smyth
Samuel c. Murphy, William ". Leggett, Ebenezer NJ
Smalley.
Mr Angnste Isehe received the degree of Decor of Phar
After comforting the degrees the Dean addressed
the graduating class most eloquent charge, delv
cred in very earnest and impressive manner whicl
they must carry in their hearts as the professona
benediction of their chief preceptor in the scienc
which they profess He congratulated them upo
their attainment of the high and honorable testmon
to their proficiency, which had just been conferre
upon them, as the alumni of the University Q
Louisiana. He referred to the circumstance of their
being the largest class it had ever graduated spok
of its great and increasing prosperity the number o
maricnlates at this session being three hundred ant
thirtyhree, drawn from all the Southern and South
western States of the Union, which now send thel
sons to New Orleans for instruction in the most i'm
portant Of the sciences. The great body OF the re
spectacle physicians of the South was now composed
OF the graduates of this college, and at none other
even in the world, had the student such genera
advantages, aside from the circumstance of its oca
ton making him familiar with those Southern dis
eases, which, as physician in Southern practice,
would be his province to treat.
What rendered the advantages of this college 81
great were the opportunities afforded by the Chart
Hospital for studying diseases. at this institution
an average Of seven hundred patients were unde
treatments these the students could visit, examine
and converse with, which they are not allowed to d.
atany other college elsewhere they could walk tn
wards of hospital, but did not dare to lay hant
upon subject. As result of the operations of th
college and the benefits arising from students becom
ing familiar here with peculiar diseases of the South
statistics show falling oil in mortality of slaves OF
plantations of one half within less than score 0
years.
The Doctor alluded to the character and responsi
bities of the science which the graduates professed
1t is progressive science; the characteristic of th
age is labor, and doctors must work, must labor t.
advance the science, to make new discoveries in med
cine. He mentioned some of the most astonishing
discoveries in material arts and Sciences stating tina
just as wonderful were being continually made ii
medicine, some of which he enumerated. The pre-
gress Of the divine art of healing was the respor
sibty of successive generations of physicians-th
field of medical philosophy was open before ther
and they should enter it with energy. The Docto
referred to the general principles of practice at som
length, spoke of mental well as physical remedies
saying that in administering to the mind diseased
common sense and piety must dictate the physician
course.
We could not publish anything more useful or in
dress, a compend, as it was, of medical lore and
enlarged views Of the duties and responsibilities O
the profession; but the crowded columns of daily
paper compel US to do readers wrong in omittns
it, and we do the Doctor wrong in our crude an
brief synopsis of what We would willingly report il
full
Music followed the Deans address, after which j
Walker Saunders, NJ. D., valedictorian and a membe
of the graduating Glass; led forward to the stan
and delivered the vaedictory address, well wrtte
speech of length, which we have no space to report
We can only give single expression, at once grace
ful and truthful-that in the success and progress
the Institution the Faculty were building monumen
to their own glory. In behalf of the class its repre-
sentative returned the most earnest and feeling thank
to the Faculty of the college for their courteous an
unceasng devotion to the interests Of the students
After the valedictory DR.. James Burns, of th
graduating Glass; moved that the thanks of the clas
be returned to the committee for the skiltu and sut
cessful in which all the hall arrangements
the occasion had been carried out which was sec
onded by general acclamation, and the commence
ment proceedings closed with the "Ouverture d
Zampa' from the orchestra.