Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-30
UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE.


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riodical: Fr -
| The March number of tho Journal con-
| tanned the announcement Of the Ttcenty.
Fourth annual Course of Lectures in this
Institution, commencing in the autumn of
1878, and it will be found at its proper
| place in this number also.
The previous number contained editorial
mention of the retirement from active
teaching labor of Professors Bowling, Win
ston, and j. B. Lindsey, together with the
letters of resignation Of those gentlemen,
addressed to the Trust es of the University
and the Medical Falculty. 1t will be
perceived from the announcement that
they have been advanced to the
rank OF Professor Emeritus OF The several
branches of medical instruction in which
they had served so long, so hoporably to
themselves, so probably to the numerous
alumni of the College, and so conducibly
to the renown of the Medical Department
of the University. The two former, In the
vigor Of their time and in professional mid
career, having engaged their energies to the
University in the work of founding and
constructing the Medical College, and the
period of service for which they had origin
ally contracted having expired; and feeling
AS they deservedly might dO-a sense OF
supreme satisfaction in the success of their
labors, and something, too, of the need of
rest which comes in the scar leaf of life,
very gracefully chose the anniversary of the
date of their contract to terminate
their connection with the Medical
! Department. As expressed in their
joint letter of resignation, their col
leagues were cognizant of their wish to re-
| ~ 70 Mol m hV1f
SO wi h full confidence that they held "no
diminished regard for the continued sue
cess of the Institution" The other retir-
ing member, though younger in years, was
| an able and efficient collaboration in laying
the corners and rearing the structure of
the Institution. While severing his con-
nection with one particular department of
the University, it will be gratifying to its
friends, aad to those of the cause of liberal
education generally, to know that his zeal
and energy still finds employment in more
extended sphere in the service of the Uni
versity.
Nearly forty years ago, when the scheme
of the University was inchoate, and strug-
Cling with inadequate means and adverse
fortune, in q public address, the following
prophetic declaration was made regarding
| Medical Department: "And for this single
good reason, were there no other, namely,
| a Medical School, which may be regarded
as an essential, and as the most important,
part of q real University, can never be
sustained except in a large town or city,
and the larger the better. Nashville is
the only place lin this regioD] where Med
ical School would even be thought of; and
physicians know full well that such is the
fact" For almost q quarter of a century
that prophesy has been history. Under
liberal auspices, six physicians of the city
of Nashville u, dertook the task Of found
ing Medical School. Three of that num-
ber-BuchanaD, the elder, Watson and
Porter-haye died, and their names
are enshrined in the archives Of the temple
which they builded. The three survivors
have retired from the work. But, under
terms equally or even more generous, their
successors have assumed the duty of main
tanning the Medical Department of the
University of Nashville. This city, in its
accessibility-iu the salubrity of the region
in the eminence it has as an educational
centre-and the very marked success it has
acquired as the site of Medical College
sthe essential and most important part of
real Uniyersity'-affords advantages supe-
rior to any point in the South or Southwest.
The general sentiment of the medical profess
sion in the territory tributary comedies this,
and the testimony CT the more than thou
sand fits alumni dispe sed over thatregion,
confirms it. The builders of the institution
living anddead-builded wisely--perhaps,
''better than they knew" The fire on its
affairs has ever been the sacred flame of
science and honorable medicine; and, under
the ministers now attendant, it will burn
} upquenchable, and brighten in the future.
No success which it may yet attain can out
strip the sincere hope and ardent expec ia
} lions of its founders and the energies OF
the present Faculty are consecrsted to the
task of maintaining it as the leading Med-
cal School of the Southwest.
The Faculty, as now constituted, has two
] members who have been associated with
the Institution from its foundation-the in
cumbent of the Chair of Principles and
Practice of Surgery, and the venerable and
Justly distinguished Professor of Operative
and Clinical Surgery. They were original
laborers in the work.
, Professor Thomas L. Maddin has been
appointed to the Chair of Institutes and
Practice of Medicine, vacated by the resig-
nation of Professor Bowling. His long
and eminent success as preceptor in med
, icine and surgery-as the occupant OF the
Chair of Anatomy, and subsequently, that
of Surgery, in the Shelby Medical College,
and, for FIVE years past, the Chair of Insti-
! tutes in the Medical Department OF the
University, attests his qaalifiL atoms. His
reputation for science, skill, and the single
} and ardent pursuits of his profession,
} places him in the front rank of the earnest
J working corps Of physicians in the South
west.
Professor William L. Nichol succeeds to
the important chair OF obstetrics and dis
eases of women and children, vacated by
: Prof Winston. AS professor of clinical
medicine, and, for three courses, as profes
; soI of materia medica and therapeutics, he
has giyen high satisfaction. In the import
ant post of teacher of obstetrics, he is tho
roughly capable and truly ambitious, and
, doubtless will excel and enhance his repu'
? tation.
| Professor Van S. Lindsey is appointed
TO the chair of physiology. Competent and
faithful service as a teacher OF the funds
} mental branch of medical educ2iion-anat
f omy-has qualified DIR. Lindsey to under
} take this course successfully, and it is con
fidently predicted that his course OF lecture:
g will be fully up to the standard of scientific
progress.
: To the Professorship of Materia Medics
5 and Therapeutics, DR.. Thomas Menees, o.
: this city, has been unanimously elected
: and to the discharge of its varied aud i'm
2 portant duties-the true tombstone, as Il
. is, of medicinal skill-he brings qualitica
lions of a superior order. He is native o
7 this county, and an alumnus ofthe Medica
e Department Of Pennsylvania University, o
Y the year 1916. In alliance with great en-
4 ergy CT character, DR.. Menees, Throughout
!, a successful life, has exhibited talent anC
q cultivation, which made him a leading
D practitioner in one ofthe most populous anC
intelligent communities in Middle Tennes
e see. Except for few years, when, through
a the importantly of his fellow-citizeDs, whC
d recognized bis aptitude for public employ
!, ment, he served in the State Senate and il
: the Confederate Congress, he has beer
d Sssiduously devoted to his profession. Or
l Menees hos fluent and impressive deliv
t cry, and will pronounce course Of lee
t lures in the highest degree creditable tt
r himself and The institution.
: DIR. James NJ. Stafford succeeds to tn
, Chair of Chemistry, and the friends OF thu
t Department may well congratulate them
), selves on this important accession. He
+ 10 the vigor of life, and has both disposition
q and DISTINGUISHED capacity for labor in hi