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Title: One hundred years of medicine and surgery in Missouri; historical and biographical review of the careers of the physicians and surgeons of the state of Missouri, and sketches of some of its notable medical institutions
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Goldstein, Max A. (Max Aaron), 1870-1941, ed
Subjects: Medicine Physicians
Publisher: (St. Louis) St. Louis Star
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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ville,Ivy.; James Blake of London, England; Thomas Eayburn, Kobert Simp-son Holmes, William M. McPheeters, David Prince of Springfield, 111.,,and Willis Greene Edwards at various times filled chairs in the facultyover which Dr. Linton and Dr. Pope presided as dean. The school soon outgrew its modest quarters, and in 1849 entered anew house erected by Col. John OFallon on the northwest corner of Sev-enth and Mvrtle. The new college building was one of the conspicuous edi-fices of the city at that time. The now prosperous school at this time,,impelled chiefly by reasons growing out of the so-called Know-.X thing movement in politics, was induced to sever its con-nection with the St. Louis University. The school was in-corporated and assumed the name of the St. Louis Medi-cal College, under a charter granted by the Legislature of the State Feb-ruary 23, 1855. The renown of its dean had already added the by-name-of Popes College. The faculty consisted of Drs. Linton, Litton, Pope^
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MEDICINE AND SURGERY. 135 Fallen. Holmes, McPheeters, Charles Whittlesey Stevens and John BatesJohnson. Other changes about this time brought to the college Dr. John HenryWatters, Dr. Ellsworth F. Smith and Dr. E. H. Gregory. The childhoodof the school may be said to have ended and prosperity marked the new-charter and the new name. While the War of the Eebellion did not interfere with the regularcollege work or its prosperity, it led to a number of changes in the faculty,among which we find the name of John Thompson Hodgen, who, on Sep-tember 15, 1862, was called to the Chair of Physiology and in 1864 wasmade dean of the college, and held the same until 1882. In 1866 thecollege allied to itself the Missouri Dental College, which in 1892 becamethe Dental Department of Washington University. On April 9, 1891, theSt. Louis Medical College accepted the offer of alliance with the Wash-ington University as her medical department, because it would serve asa guaranty to the profession and to

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