The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-11
YOUNG Dol TORS
GET D' j LO.iylAS
Commencement Exercises Of Medical.
College of Virginia,
DR.. C. A. [. REEDS ADDRESS.
DR.. C. A. [. REEDS ADDRESS.
Several ofthe Young Graduates Re
ceive Good Appointments to Hos
pitals-Banquet rendered Grad
uating Glass at the Jefferson.

The commencement eSeTcISeosoi LIE si<>--
ty-third session of the Medical College OF
Virginia were held a t the Academy OF
Music last night. The building was crowd
ed with friends and acquaintance OF the
young men of the graduating class The
stage was beautifully decorated with
palms, carnations and roses.
The exercises were opened with prayer
by Rev. DIR. ]. B. Hawthorne. followed
by an address by DR.. Christopher Iomp-.
kins. DR.. Ionphins made a most interest
ing talk on the work of the college and
asserted that il was now in satisfactory
and prosperous condition.
Dr. j. d. McCaw made an address con-
corning the working OF the Board of sVisi-
tors He thought that the resolution pass
ed by the Board relative to four years
course in medicine deserved special men
ton.
DR.. Tompkins after few remarks, pre-
sented tn d p.omas 10 the 81 adua ing class
THOSE WHO RECEIVED DIPLOMAS.
The following is a list of those VINO re-
ceived diplomas:
Graduates in. Medcine-M. l.. Anderson,
]. c. Bianton, Virginia: Michael Block,
New York; r. S. Bosher, Jr., A. E. Bucn-
anan. s. A Draper. j. n. De Shazo, NIr-
GINA, z. N. Easiey, West Virginia; r. ).
fisenan W. +, Ferguson, e. l.. w. Ferry,
c. o. Fon;aine. w. y. Gills, J. c. Gregory,
Jr, Virginia. j. c. Greene. North Carolina:
j. II. Hagy. E T. Hargrave John T.
Harris, James O. Hart. b. l.. Hume, Nir-
ginia; II. II. Hunter, North Carolina; w:
L. Hunter West Virginia.: r. l.. Lawrence,
w. X Mccoy, Virginia.; RI. McNair.
North Carolina: Albert Pilkngton. Eng
land; ]. j. Purdy, Virginia; F. b. Quincy,
New Jersey: j. F. Ragland, Jr., W. ;.
Shepherd. D. S. Solliday, George IL.
Sparks. Thomas F.. Staley. z. II. Terrell.
j. E. Tilnlan. II. l.. Tutwier, T.. L.
Weaver, Virginia: r NJ. West, North Car
Dina: C. A. White, Pennsylvania. and
John E. White, Virginia.
Graduates in Dentistry-H. D. Atkinson,
c. L. DELANEY, S. F. Hart. E. W Shack
elford and W. NJ Smith, Virginia.
Graduates in Pharmacy-M. NJ. sauls,
North Carolina. and L. T.Wrisht, Nir-.
GINA.
The graduates in medicine were app
pointed as follows: sDrs. M. G. Ander-
son and j. n. De Shazo, Old Dominion
Hospital; DIR. r. T. McNair,l Retreat for
the Sick: Dr.. j. E. Harris, ST Vlncents
Hospital, Norfolk: Dr. E. II. Terrell,
Protestant Hospital, Norfolk; Drs. j., c.
Gregory. Jr., and Thomas F. Stately.
United States Marine Hospital, Boston;
DIR. w. A. Gills. resident physician at
City Almshouse. Richmond.
DIR. REEDS ADDRESS.
The address before the graduating class
was delivered by DR.. Charles A l.. Reed,
of Cincinnati o. His remarks We're well
received and frequently punctured with ap-
plause DR. Reed spoke, in part, as fol-
lows:
.'One of the thoughts that come 10 me
unbidden on such an occasion as this Is.
what would be the condition of society if
there were no such exercises as these?
What, indeed, let me ask would be the
condition of society, if there were no medi-
cal profession? Ii we do not consider the
whole state of society. still what under
such circumstances would be the condition
of the healing art? How may we answer
this question? It is obviously unfair to
take the crude notions Of Inferior races as
criteria; it is, however, perfectly proper
TO take those primitive notions of medicine
as they exist in the minds of primitive
representatives of superior peoples-I now
aliude to those people of whatever grade
whose intellects are not illumed with the
intelligence which constantly radiates from
the medical profession. Their crude con-
ceptions, comprising what Is properly dcsig-
mated as folk medicine have been collateG,
BY the light of that research.
am enable to give you some
idea OF what would comprise medical teach
ing if it were not for the medical profess
sion. Let us imagine that am your pro-
fessor-your Professor of Folk Medicine
and that you are my students. ] am about
to lecture to you and begin thus: Re-
member now. there is no medical science
as we TODAY understand it. but I have
gathered together the knowledge of the
world on diseases and their cures, and L
am giving you the first installment of that
wisdom Well. remembering this we begin.
CAUSES OF DISEASE.
.'You have assembled to-day to learn how
to keen away diseases and how to cure
them. But before we can do this we must
find out what causes them. To begin with,
as everybody knows there are spirits-and
among spirits there is great spirit that
is above all other spirits. We are born and
We die by the grace of the Great Spirit,
for he not only giveth, but he taketh away.
All diseases are efforts at death. and hence
are caused by the spirits When diseases
don't kill us it's because the spirits want
to punish or persecute u.s. Now. when
person dies. his spirit goes to the spirit
world and becomes powerful. more power
full than it ever was in the flesh. Now,
that NE understand spirits, you will see at
a glance that diseases must be caused-are
caused in one of three particular ways viz:
First BY the anger of an offended spir-
it that has been liberated from, its earthly
abode.
Second BY the displeasure Of powerful
spirits that always have belonged to the
spirit world.
Third BY the enmity of spirit, yet
abiding in human form. but which has
acquired superhuman power by organ
izing trust under the presidency of the
devil (keep your eye on the devil, he is
an important factor in our philosophy
in fact. we couldn't make it hang to-
gether without him).
WORK OF SPIRITS.
'.Now. spirits, whether gods OF high or
low degree, or those Of men by death
set free. move in mysterious way their
wonders to perform Having all power
they can do all things. They speak and
work often by entering into and assuming
the form of stones, trees, bushes; they
speak, in the rustling of the wind and
in the babb,ing of the brook: they may
{ take the form of chirping birds or OF
loving kline. but they much prefer to
operate through the instrumentality of
warlocks, wames and witches. wisacres
and wizards. sorcerers and soothsayers
magicians and nagnetizers. They are
I especially effective if they can borrow
the wrinkled visage of some old crone
although they often work sad havoc by
assuming the form of a lovely miss
an arion, which Is not restricted to the