The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-22
YALE'S MEDICAL SCHOOL.
ADDRESS AT BITTELL CHAPEL
 YESTERDAY FORENOON

By William II. WeIch, M. D., IL. D., O
 Johns Hopkins Univsrsity-subjcct
 "Yale in It's Relation to Medicine"
 Two important addresses were deliv-
 cred in Battell chapel yesterday morn
 ing. The exercises were opened at 10: :3C
 o'clock and the chapel was crowded
 to the doors. President Arthur T. Had
 ley presided and on the platform were
 many distinguished guests and the Yale
 corporation.
 The exercises were opened by singing
 to verses of a hymn written by Rev.
 pr. Leonard Bacon, a fellow of Yale,
 from 1889 to 1S46, entitled 70 God Be-
 heath Thy Guiding Star"
 The first address was made by Thom-
 as Thacher, M. A., of the New York
 bar: Yale in Its Relations to Law
 was his subject. His address will be
 found in another column.
 Yale in Its Relation to Medicine"
 was the subject of the address of Pro- lessor William H, Welch, M. D., LL
 D., professor of pathology in Johns
 Hopkins university. Professor Welch
 said In part:
 My Friends, Guests and Members of Yale: Speaking, as I believe I may, in behalf of those who received their med ical education at Yale, and who have made Yale's medical department one of the foremost in this country, I will give a brief history of Yale in its relations to medicine and the work accomplished by those who are graduates of this great institution of learning.
 'The medical department was first added about 100 years after the found- ing of Yale college at Saybrook Any account of Yale's early work in the medical world would be incomplete without first mastering the names of Hunt, Harvey, Morgan and Hunter The records of early Yale physicians and their writings have an especial in- terest which belongs to and has been fostered by Yale men until the present day.
 In the early days the manner of teaching had not advanced beyond the style then in force. Then the training of students was by apprenticeship of three or four years work, divided be- tween the books on the shelf and the skelton in the laboratory.
 with the exception of two laws re- gently passed in New York and New Jersey. there has been no effective leg islatlon to control medical practice. AL most any one was allowed to practice In the 18th century the remuneration for the practitioners was so small that many found it difficult to live, hence they abandoned their profession and took up farming and other work. There were no medical journals published un til near the end of the 18th century. The brief outline of the medical work in the early days gives us a better un derstanding and makes us more appre- ciative of the advantages which we now l enjov
 "Those familiar with the early his | tory of New England know how we'll l educated were those persons known as | clerical doctors. One of the most cele- brated of these men was Rev. Thomas Thacher
 "James Elliott, of the class of 1773, was the first graduate to enter prac- tice, and he heads the list of all those who have since received their education nt Yale and have since launched in | practice. It is said of this man that for forty years he never stopped preaching in his work, and there is little doubt that he did more than any other man of his time for the medical profession.
 1.-TWO graduates of Yale were signers ,f the Declaration of Independence. physicians were probably the most prominent in the formation of oy,d thnGa | many Yale graduates. The first so ,iety was formed at Norwich in 1792. The physicians petitioned for a special court in 17S4 for an act of incorpora- ion but for some unknown reason it was refused. They again petit1oned 'or incorporation in 1792, and in this at empt were successful. Yale men were prominent in this movement.
 After the formation of this society ye find numerous writings which were if untolds value to the profession. "The first medical journal was pub- lshed in 17a7. "Noah Webster, who graduated in 7Ss published various papers and was
 prominent Yale graduate at that ime. "On the passing of the century Yale ( ,as passed with it in spirit and start ] d out on a policy of expansion until ' f has branched out to be one of the s argest universities in the United f ,tates.
 "It was Benjamin Siiman who made l Tales medical requirements his active ( york and the subject of his learned ( vritings. He created an interest in , he medical department, and this inter- $ st has never subsided. , "The members of the first faculty of r he medical school were appointed in i, s12, pr. M. R. Monson. who was on f hat board, was an octogenaran at the ! lme of his appointment. T "The faculty made group of teach ' E the equal of any other in the coun- ry. Nathan Smith, another member ,ade for himself an 1llustrious name. Ills career began as a poor boy in Yer ,ont and he worked long and hard at is chosen profession until he reached hair at Harvard and thence came to : ale. It was he who founded the med val department at Bowdoin college in s12
 "Dr. S. R. Johnson, another member, -as only twenty-three years of age at < is annointment He was an influential |
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