The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-26
MEDICAL SCHOOL GRADUATES
CLASS OF EIGHTEEN RECEIVED
 DIPLOMAS YESTERD4Y.

DIPLOMAS YESTERD4Y.
 Address by Professor Edmund B. Will
 son, Ph. D., of Columbia University
 Campbell Gold Medal Awarded to w
 Their Winners Last Even.
 ing.
 The anniversary exercises of the Yale
 medical school were held yesterday noon at College street hall. A class of
 eighteen was graduated, and the ad-
 dress was delivered by Professor Ed
 mund B. Wilson, Ph. D., of Columbia
 university, who spoke on "The Higher Claims of Minute Research in Biology
 and Medicine" An abstract of the ad- dress is given below.
 President Hadley presided and intro
 duced the speaker and on the platform
 were seated the medical faculty and
 several members of other college facul-
 ties. The Dr. Campbell gold medal,
 awarded for the highest rank in the
 examinations of the course. was given
 to Walter Sidders Lay of Westbrook, 1 Conn. The Reese prize for the best
 thesis presented for the degree of doc-
 tor of medicine was awarded to Will
 liam Singer, B. A.. Williams college, able mention of Leone Franklin La-
 Pierre of Norwich. Conn.
 Last evening at ' o'clock the faculty Lf-. .t.4 Professor Wilson and few invited guests.
 These are the graduates: Noah Ar thur Burr, B. A., Winchester Center, Conn.,; Patrick Vincent Costello, New Haven; William J. Blannery New Brit
 ain; Samuel Guerney, Bridgeport; Ed gar Francis Hamlin, Huntsville; Gould Sheldon Higgins. Hanover; Leone Franklin LaPierre, Norwich: Walter Sidders Lay Westbrook; Howard De- Forest Lockwood, Bridgeport; Nelson Amos Luddington, jr, New Haven; Arthur Samuel Mcqueen, New Haven; Thomas Francis Maher. New Haven; Frederick Fletcher Maloney, Dundee, N. Y.; George Augustus May, Philadel- phia; James Percival Merrill. Spring field, Mass; Gordon Mott Ryno, B. F., Benton Harbor, Mich; William Senger, B. A., Port Jervis, N. Y.; George Streit, New Haven.
 The speaker for the Medical school at the anniversary exercises yesterday noon was Professor Edmund B. Will son, Ph. D., of Columbia university. Higher Claims of Minute Research In 1f,1A of the address follows:
 Professor Wilson's address on the higher claims of minute research in bi- ology and medicine dealt with the close relation in spirit and method of study between scientific medicine and biolo- | gy, and emphasized the greatness of the issues that turn on the study of minute detail. The Physician and the | naturalist are workers in a common field and belong to one scientific fra ternity, and each owes to the other a great historic debt. The community of | their aim is nowhere more apparent l than in their point of view and meth | cd of attack in the study of vital phe- | the past great advances of | medicine and biology and their present | rapid progress, are due primarily to the thorough and prolonged study of | detail through which alone discoveries of far-reaching importance are made possible. This was illustrated by brief sketch of the history of cellular biology and pathology, and was specifi- ,ally shown in an account of some of Lhe most general conclusions that have been reached through the study of cell ,;,.A searches in this field have yielded re- suits having a vital bearing, in one di- 'ection, on theories of heredity that in- 5olve our whole conception of the pro- cess of organic evolution and the de- 1elopment of human faculty and in an- other direction on momentous practical problems of pathology High speclali- ;ation is chara Cteristic and necessa- y feature of all advanced research, ut if regarded from the true stand ,oint it has not the narrowing effect so ften attributed to it by the unih- tructed, since it involves issues pos- essing a universal human interest and f vital importance to human welfare. Discussing the subject from "a more practical standpoint, some f the remarkable results obtained by hemical experiments of ell-divison iere reviewed in their bearing on the roblem of tumor- formation. In the , judy of this question the patholoeist , ; endeavoring to solve through the ex- 7 study of normal develop lent It has been shown that the egg nay be chemically fertiized without , he influence of the male element, and lrther, that the normal course of de- ,, elopmont and differentiation may be modified by chemical treat lent There is req son to hope that by lalogous methods the pathologist may lcceed in clearing up both the causa- on and the true principle of treat lent of tumors Here especially is a cid in which the pathologist and the aneral biologist may most effectively a ,-operate. It is of high importance to IT r le future of medicine that practition- T $ shall retain their sympathy with - 'iginal investigation,no merely in : ientific medicine, but in other 'anches of biology, and shall heold in CIV the broader aims of those who are gagged in minuteresearch. The prac- cal aims and results of such research e often not immediately apparent 1t the history of medicine shows that a,y oP the prea tact adyaDanc boua