Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-04-08
MEDICAL COLLEGE.
ADDRESS OF DR.. c. w. P. BROCK TO
THE ALUMNI.
Commencemet Exercises to Take Place
Tonight and DR.. Goodwin TO
He the Orator.

dent of tho association. occupied the cH"'
and introduced as the orator OF the eve
ming Or. c. ". P. Brock, of this city. In so
doing, Or. Newton said that it was hardly
necessary 10 dwell upon the talents OF that
gentleman, as be was already sufficiently
well known 10 commend himself to the
earnest attention Of bis hearcrers.
The Address.
This institution said he. began
it's work as a medical college IN 1888
as the medical department OF Hampden-
: dney College confcrrinS the degree oI
doctor Of medicine by authority or me
charter Of said college. ] am told tnat
the understanding between the professors
Of the medical department ard the tIus-
tees Of Hampden-Sydney College was ihat
the professors Of tho medical department
were TO pay to the college $500 per annum
for the useof their charter and that the
medical Department was 70 be under INC
control of the professors Of that department
entirely free from any interference on the
part Of the trustees Of the college.
TIE FIRST COLLEGE, HALL.
"The first building occupied by tho
faculty a. a medical college was the Old
United States Hotel at the southwest
corner Of Nineteenth and Main streets,
q building now used for educating colored
Cians of the soul. The present college
building was erected by the gentlemen
composing the faculty, aided by some
money obtained for the State Literary
Fund. our college buldingis beautiful. PIC
turcsQue. and unique-being cast IN the
purest style OF Egyptian architecture. rs II
The founders wished TO perrctuate IN THIS
memorial structure the gratitude which
medicine owes to Egypt that country
whore the Yotarics Of the science found
refuge from persecution"
PcRsoyAL.
DR.. Brock gave the PERSONAL Of the first
faculty: referred 10 ihe erection Of the
hosp tai building by the State and then re-
cited the difference that arose between the
faculty and Sidney College,
which led to litigation and separation and
finally to charter being granted by the
LEGISLATURE to the Medical College Of Nlr-
Tho speaker was student in the time Of
Professors ID. II. Tucker, Charles l.. Glb-
SON. Beverley Wexford, J.. :. Joynes, j. Il.
NcCaw, 4. L. Pet.cOlas, and James Con-
way, and the characteristics OF these he
skotched with skill and grace.
Two colorcd worthies- Lewis, the Jani
tor. and Billy, the bell-rinser-were also
remembered.
Or Brown-Scquard was referred TO as n
/ professor of chemistry here one year.
position now filed by Professor Coroner
William II. TAYLOR from whose book
("Travels of Doctor of PhySlc"D DR..
Brock quoted q humorous description OF
Dr.. Brown-Scquards experiments III c'c'-
section.
srUDESTs sIcFDE.
Or. Brock next pictured the mutterings
| Or the storm of war tho departure ot
southern medical students from Philade-
phia IN 1859; their arrival in Richmond;
their reception here by Governor II. A.
Wise, and the great popular ovation they
/ received.
This said Dr. Brock, was the first
practical secession. and created profound
impression throughout tho country
TIE WAR.
"The war came and the part that tho
graduates OF these schools played IN that
bloody drama wa,.n said DR.. Brock, " 10y
no means an considerable one, for they
contributed very largely 10 the formation
Of tine corps of Confederate States army
/ surgeons. "a body Of men who won IN
perisEablo fame ON the many battle-neids
and in the hospitals of the Contederacy."
After referring to the doctors IN the war,
I the hardships they endured, the difficult
ties they had 10 contend with, DR.. Brock
concluded as follows:
To supplement our lacaero supplies, surgeon
. General = p. Moore, VINO, IN tie ajmini5tra' ION
b
displayed 30 much wisdom ana foresight ana
( who was couceGed 10 he mo beat executive off,
+ Ger IN the confederate Goy0rnment had manu-
+ factories established 10 extract from the Indigo
P nous uiauts Of thc South thcir medicinal viz
tues. An occasional blockadeIunncr would
land medicines and instruments from abroad.
aud the hearts OF tho edical puryeyOTs were
ever and anon made 90 rcioico by contributions
I TO their stores Of captured supplies.
A WONDERFUL BANDAGr.
These surgeons having 10 depend large
+ Iy upon themselves. io'Gme very forti!o IN
resources, ana long before tsm8rch gayo
10 the world bis handage for bloOdless
operations the same principal was in daily use
ia tho army POrcelalne-uppcd pencils Ola
daty as NclatOn's probe, and the lowering OF tho
head IN chloroform uaIcO,is @as the common
practice. antedatng NcuiOns publication on
hese mon were impellei 70 action not for tho
sake Of tine bubble rcpu alton gained al the can
/ uOu's mouth, but by u hgu ana pAtf1Ouc sense
Of diffu, a word tnat ha. been chscacterized by
thc gisndcst man of all tho ages, General
Robert 4. Lee. the subl.iuest WORD III tho
bngiith Language.
MILITARY SURGERY.
Long ere the var he'd Deen thought to a
finish - and 10 wac best O ~ II should have h9en
fought 10 the blt'cr ond, the surgeons OF the Con-
federate army could have taught military sur
gery 10 TIE world. 1hi- fact was impressed upon
me ID reading tre surgica. reports o. The Franco
Prssan war tbnt followed a few years after the
cessation OF hostiiities in this country.
Many OF this corps yielded up their lives on the
field Of bat le, displaying courage more sub
lime, II such De possible. than was shown By
those VINO sfOrmed height or led tor.ofn hope.
| cannot 4orbear 10 mention IN this connection
my old friend and cld,smale, Dr. Jchn ron
tame as noble 4 fellow a. ever bore Tho reHk OF
surgeon, who fell IN front OF Petersburg while IN
tho discharge Of his duties rs chief surgeon OF
the cavalry corps. The heroic courage Of
private at great battle fought on tho
plains Of tho Danube, and who there
fell, Contributed much 10 tho success OF
| tho French on that field. Ever after at the
! Dhraies OF his battalion the name OF LaIour
d'Auverguo was drsf called, when tue Oldest ser
geant stepped 10 the front and ansN Nered; =" Dled
on the leld OF honor" Whom the name OF John
| Fontainc IS reached on TIE roll OF this Alumni
Association lot the Oldest alumnus answer
"Died IN the discharge OF duty"
NO APOLOGIES.
Ineyer heard Of any southern soldier or citi-
zen who did his duty in that heroic struggle OF
four years who had any apology 10 make for the
part he bore in 1t. When the war ended,
not forgetting the past, but looslng
/ the inevitable square In the face, and submit
Z ting with iOrtitude aud dignity, accepting the
harshest conditions and faithfully Observing
them, the southern people went earnestly 10
work 10 repair their ruined fortunes Anu
t never in the worlds history has there been seen
such recuporaiion from tie most ablect poverty
and destruction as mas marked the honost strug,
gle Of these people since the war. Ihis should
nave been expected. This is no new South All
that hes been done has been accomplished py
the brain aud muscle Of the survivors
Of tho war and their children and the children OF
those who fell In the light
THE OLD STOCK.
The survivors Of the GOOoOO men who for four
years successfully cOntended against 5,UVc'VUO
OF men, equipped aud supplied in manner
never equalled in the history OF war, are Inaue
OF stern-r stuff than to gri0Se over failen lOr-
tunes. The same stock still exists that gave "
IA past age Washington, a Jefferson, taihouh'
ana u Marshall: aud 70 our own tunes JAWS
a Leo. "a Johnston, a Stuart, a Forrest ana 'hou-
sands OF others whose names have been lnauo
"a familiar as h0usf hold words by their heioic
deeds on the field and at tho forum.
Tho treod 10 which these men belong, says
General Dick Taylor, " has for eight centuries
been master Of The earth wherever theY nave
planted their feet i handful conquered ahu
holds IN subsection the crowded millions 0i lhla.
Another and smaller brides tho fierce Calre
tribes Of South Africa. Place but score OF
them on the middle course OF the Congo anu
they VIII rule unless egtorminated, and All IN
armies and all the Eumanltarlsns cAnhOt
change this until the appointed time arrives ior
liam 10 dominate Japnet"
Respect Tor the memories and deeds OF our
ancestors IS security for the present ana see1
corn for the future" And In the Language OF
/ Burke "thuse Hln not look forward 10 tlelI