Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-25
MEMPHis MEDICAL COLLEGE.
A Preparatory Celebration at the
College Yesterday-The session
OF IS79-SO to Commence on
the First OF October,
Next.

Yesterday, by special invitation of the
faculty of the Memphis hospital medical
college, and the medical department of the
Southwestern Baptist university, number of
gentleme1, including physicians, trustees.
newspaper men, merchants, lawyers, etc.,
visited the college, which is three story
trick building, situated on Union avenue,
Immediately IN front of the Memphis city
and marine hospitals. Among those present
were the following citizens: Drs. Hennlng,
Mitchell, Rogers, Nall, Baskerville, Sim,
Wise, Maury, Griswald. Vim, Collins, Pur-
nell, Overall, Biloxi, w. P. Rogers and other
physicians, and Messrs. w. n. Brown,
Frank S. Davis, A. W. Roberts, Judge ]. A.
Anderson, Ii. Furstenheim, George Rudisill,
Ike Suowden, j. j. Busby, Joseph Lock,
Hon. Jacob Thompson, beside other gentle
men who were invited guests.
The invited guests were received by DR..
W. E Rogers, dean of the faculty, and we're
shown throughout the building. The first or
ground floor contains the offices of the dean,
secretary and janitor, the lobby, elevator
and laboratory. The second floor contains
the lecture-room or amphitheater, which will
comfortably seat three hundred students;
also the museum, which is already furnished
with many valuable specimens of great in
terest to the medical profession, besides
anatomical pieces of work, engraved plates
and other things most necessary in medical
museum. Our reporter was startled some
what by the exhibitions of diseases in plaster,
which diseases the human frame is incident
to from accident and Gin. The third floor
contains the library-Tooal, dissecting room,
and private dissectIng- room. Those who
| seemed to know something concerning medi-
cal colleges are of opinion that this hospital,
| for Its size, Is not excelled In arrangement,
| capacity or convenience by any college on
| the continent. Tie guests, after being
shown through the building, assembled IN
| the llbrary-roOm, where repast or refresh
ment in the shape of Mumm & Co. s cham
payne and cigars was placed before them.
SPEECHES AND REFRESHMENTS.
Judge James A Anderson was called upon
to talk, and that gentleman, taking a glass
| of champagne In his hand, expressed his
pleasure at meeting so T. any of the learned
| profession OF medicine upon the occasion.
| He referred in complimentary terms to Dr..
| Rogers, dean of the faculty, whom he had
| known in earliest manhood at New Orleans,
where they were both young men, paying
their addresses to a bright-eyed Creole girl
| in the Crescent City. II his friend possessed
the same enterprise now in his profession as
he did then in love affair, he felt assure d
that the Memphis medical college would be-
come success, it would become an enterprise
| a credit to science and learning, and benefit
to mankind. During the pa5t year the people
| were taught what the medical profession was
worth to the world, when they stood to their
posts and faced disease and death. The
| medical college of Memphis will become the
| nursery OF medical skill and that of profess
sional heroes.
DIR. r. w. Mitchell was next called upon.
| He toasted the success of the medical COL
| lege, and proposed the health of DIR. Rogers,
dean of the faculty. He was not at the pres
emit time pregnant with speech, and he re-
spectfully declined to detain his friends with
| any lengthy remarks.
Dr.. julius WISE, when called upon, stated
that, being the youngest member of the
faculty, he felt a delicacy in saying anything.
He felt proud and glad to see so many repre-
sentatives of the city present. The faculty
has done nothing so far. Up to the present
everything for the college. In October next
he hoped that the faculty would commence
work and then their time came to talk and
work. He hoped that the college would open
I'D with a large class of students. He
thanked the people of Memphis, in behalf OF
the faculty, for their generous aid IN erecting
| a medical college, which was an honor and
| an ornament to the State.
Dr. Charles Baskerville was called out 10
speak. That gentleman expressed himself as
| 10th to respond to so hattering call, as I'M
| deserving as unexpected. He sincerely, as a
| professional man, desired the full success of
| the medical college, and wished it all the
| success II most unoopoteuly deserved. he re-
garded the establishment of a medical COL
| lege in Memphis as a stepping stone to the
/ advancement of Ledicine and surgery In this
section of country. The Institution had his
earnest wishes for its advancement and pros
perity, and he hoped and predicted that its
success would be all that was expected by its
originators and friends. He in his humble
| capacity would give IL all the aid and eacopr-
agement in his power.
| Hen. Jacob Thompson responded to call
| by stating that he did not come to make a
| speech, but to drink glass of champagne
to the success of the college. He wished it
| all the success he knew it deserved, and he
| declined making speech of any length upon
| so pleasant an occasion. When he was a
student at college his professor said to him
and his class: Suppose, young gentlemen,
you were called suddenly to make speech.
What would you doP" True eloquence con-
slsts IN this; when you have nothing to
say, say nothing"
Dr. Frank L. Sim stated that he was a
member of the faculty, and he thanked those
citizens who had formed a nucleus upon
which the college had been erected. 1t was
an institution worthy of Tennessee, and the
faculty felt ganguine Of its success.
Mr.. VIM. II. Brown, In his speech, said he