The times., 1901-05-28

| Earnest words were spoken last night.
| and much good advice was given to the
| twenty-six graduates Of the Columbian
| University Medical College and the nine
! graduates of the dental department. The
| graduation exercises. held in the National
Theatre. and the first of series Of three
which have been arranged to include all
the university departments, were brill
liant. brilliant men, seated on the stage
| amid brilliant decorations. listened TO a
learned address by a man of brilliant
achievement in medicine. Dr. Z. A. De
! Schweinitz Many prizes were awarded
and the achievement and ranking of the
class among others are to be judged from
the fact that the first honor in medicine
went To a student who had attained dur
ing his three years course l3S per cent
out of a possible 40.
/ Special effort had been made to render
| the National Theatre beautiful for the
occasion, and the effort had met with
eminent success. The leading colors in
the scheme were yellow and blue, the col
lege shades. and they were used in such
profusion that scarcely a column or a bit
of the permanent wall was anywhere to
be seen The ratings Of the balconies
were looped with American flags, Old
| Glory hung across the pToscenium arch,
and above the heads Of the graduates and
| faculty on the stage were little clusters
of silk flags.
! The most conspicuous decoration OF the
| stage was an enormous scroll made in
yellow and blue immortelIes. bearing in
the middle a great monogram &c. u and
! the figures 1901" The students were lit
orally embowered. Bouquets by the hun
dred were placed in the footlights, hiding
| them Completely under mass of BIOS
! SONS. SnlilaX trailed up and down the
| columns. and across the fronts of both
balconies, and the sides of the prosce-
MUM were concealed BY heavily Ieafed
vines.
| 1t was long before the hour set
| for the commencement of the pro
gramme that the seats were all
| filed The audience was a large one
! finely sGwned and distinguished While
! waiting for the students to gather, those
| present were entertained by the Marine
band which furnished. at intervals
/ throughout the programme. music to re-
lieve the speakers
| The exercises began with prayer by
Dr. Greene. acting president of the col
! lege. He asked the blessing of the AL
mighty upon the students as they went
! out into life, and fervently prayed that
they might be kept true to their trust.
| Without further delay the presentation
of degrees began. DR.. Z. A. De Schwein-
! itz presented the candidates for the de-
/ gree Of N. d. to Dr. Greene, and in a
( happy speech told how they had COM
plcted their course and deserved the hon
or which was about TO be conferred upon
them.
! Ifapressing upon their minds that, as
they received the honor of doctors of
medicine, they also received the response
| bilities, Dr. Greene granted each his
! diploma AS each man stepped forward
! there was placed around his neck the
Doctors cap of green. The following
We're graduated in medicine:
Holm Franklin Atkinson. Adolphus D. Bennett,
r.. Harry Lee Brown, Thomas J. Wilson Brown.
B. s; Clifton Power Clark, B. S, Phar. D.;
Henry Franklin Collins. William Thornwan Davis
William Russell Eastman, Pin. B.; Paul Lamar
Freeman Thomas Sandford Dunaway Grasty Hcy-
man Z. rkittredge. Harry A. March. b. S;
James WidgeTy Marshall, T. L. Mason, Waiter
Hibbard Merrill, B. l.. Samuel Jonathan Morris
Baxter Morton. 4. B.. B. 5; W. +. Musgrave,
William Robert Perkins. Phar. D.; John Matthew
Pullian, Phar. D.; viii Leroy Pyles, Doctrine
Hugh Reed, George Marshall Robinson, Robert
Lee Russell. B. :; Harry Wood Tobias, B. E.;
and Clarence Clayton Walker, A. B.
The presentation Of the candidates for
degrees in dentistry was performed by DR..
J. /. Lewis, who complimented them upon
their achievements and recommended
them TO lJr- Greene IOr InelT degrees Inc
graduates in dentistry are:
Iohn Robert de Farges. Albert Luther Hasel-
barth Charles Max Hasseibach james Taylor Nc
Clonahan Clinton Atwood Putnam, Richard Gill
Richardson, Robert william Rule, Howard Free
man smith and John Henry WeSer.
DR. r. a. de Schweinitz, addressing the
graduates said: "A fly sat on the wheel
of 4 rapidly driven chariot and sad.
What a dust I do make. That is Aesop .
fable. We medical men are a little too
inclined 70 think that we are making all
the dust.
1T is well for US to learn hurnbleness.
and to learn willingness to study the
methods and people of the past. We live
| IN a great age Of anesthesia, anaIgesia,
and a hundred new 'Ulogies' and easias,'
! but Il is well for US 10 look at the dust
! the golden dUst-that our predecessors
raised.
we can limit ourselves only 10 the
/ great names Of our American medical
( history and yet have all we need of ac-
compllShnent to ruminate over Begin
only with DR.. William Beaumont. 1t was
a great turn Of fate that put IN his hands
| the young Canadian, Alexis st. Martin,
! whose stomach had been injured by
gunshot wound.
.'The organ had been completely per-
! forated, but flap had grown over the
/ hole, making digestion possible in nor
NAL manner. With this man to work
with beaumont was able to study all the
! phenomena Of digestion, and after years
I of hard study he published In lS3J
| brochure which revolutionized the att
| tude Of the medical world on the subject
| Of the digestive process. Yet he said he
was merely student.
| physicians were studying the febrile
| affections all over the world, and Louis
! Of Paris had published an extensive work
/ on them. 1t was left for W w. Gerrod,
| Of our country, TO first differentiate COM
plefeIv typhoid fever from the malignant
I and fearful tvphus fever. During a great
| epidemic in Philadelphia he made Il deep
study Of the two feVeTs disSectinS and
c0Inparing each case until he had reached
| certain results. which he then published
( 10 tho world
/ Some few years later Samuel D. Gross,
having reached the conclusion at path
/ OIogical anatomy had been neg rcted. set
! himself to work and produced a monu-
mental work on surgical pathology and
pathological anatomy
/ There were problems Of sepsis and
| contagl0n in maternity wards always
staring the old practitioner in the face.
/ BUT in ApriI 1913, Oliver Wendell Holmes,
having carefully collated all the facts and
/ cases he could reach, wrote his paper on
the 'Contagiousness Of Puerperal Fever
His was the voice Of the prophet crying
in the wilderness; but now, needing the
ADVICE he gave, which was but tardlly
recognized AZ its true worth, puerperal
fever is a rarity.
Therapeutics have advanced 10 point
now whore remedies are used with
definite idea Of their action upon human