Metropolitan Boston; a modern history; Volume I, Part 35

Author: Langtry, Albert P. (Albert Perkins), 1860-1939, editor
Publication date: 1929
Publisher: New York, Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 396


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Holmes, in making a list of the important Boston medical events, listed them thuswise: "The founding of the Boston Dispensary (1796), and of the Massachusetts General Hospital (18II). The establishment of the City Hospital (1864), and that of the Eye and Ear Infirmary (1826), and other medical charities. The removal to Boston of the Medical School of Harvard (1815), followed by the erection of the building in North Grove Street, and of the noble edifice now (1880) in the course of erection at Boylston and Exeter streets. The formation of the Boston Medical Association (1806), of the Suffolk District Medical Society (1839), of the Societies for Medical Improvement (1839), for Medical Observation (1835 and 1846), of Medical Sciences (1869), and others." Perhaps the list is as good as any, if one substitutes the Massachusetts Medical Society founded in 1781 for the Boston Medical Association.


The Massachusetts Medical Society-The Massachusetts Medical Society with its close to a century and a half of uninterrupted life, the oldest State medical society with an unbroken existence, is the organiza- tion that has been responsible for most that has been best in the medical history of the State. The first medical society in this country was one that existed at Boston in 1735, but all that is known of it is contained in a brief letter written by Dr. William Douglass, of Boston, in that year Another association was planned in 1765, but failed to organize. On No- vember I, 1781, the Massachusetts Medical Society was incorporated,


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which has held its meetings continuously and regularly ever since. The charter was signed by Samuel Adams as president of the Senate, and John Hancock as Governor of the State. By its charter the president and the fellows of the society, or such other officers and fellows as they might appoint, were given authority to examine all candidates for the practice of physic or surgery, offering themselves for examination respecting their skill in their profession; who, passing their examination success- fully, should receive "the approbation of the society in letters testimonial of such examination, under the seal of the said society, signed by the president or such other person, or persons, as shall be appointed for said purpose." The charter members are supposed to have numbered thirty-one, and represented different sections of the State. In 1803, when it was reorganized on a democratic basis, there was a membership list of sixty-seven, and from that time there has been a fairly regular growth, until at the present time (1927) the members number nearly 4,500, rep- resenting about three-quarters of the physicians in the Commonwealth. During its long life, the society has numbered among its officers and fellows a large proportion of the eminent medical men of the State.


The Founders of the Society-The first president of the society was Dr. Edward Augustus Holyoke, of Salem; the first censors who were to approve candidates were Drs. Samuel Danforth, Charles Jarvis, Joseph Orne, Cotton Tufts, and John Warren. The fourteen founders, as their names appear in the bill for incorporating the society, were James Pecker (1724-94), who was made the first vice-president; James Lloyd (1728- 1801), who was one of the leading practitioners of Boston, and was the first physician in America to use ligature instead of searing wounds, and to use the double flap in amputation ; Joseph Gardiner (1727-88), prob- ably one of the group that tried to form a medical society in 1765; Samuel Danforth (1740-1827), a member of a family noted in the annals of Massachusetts jurists, physicians and literary men; Isaac Rand (1743- 1822), who did much to establish the art of obstetrics in Boston, and who, with John Warren and Lemuel Hayward, established a smallpox hospital in Brookline; Charles Jarvis (1748-1807), prominent in politics as well as in his profession; Thomas Kast (1750-1820), a traveled and favorite physician of Boston ; John Warren (1753-1815), the first of that famous family ; John Linn (1750-93), of whom little is known, having removed to Philadelphia, where he died; Benjamin Curtis (1752-84), who died when but thirty-three; Thomas Welsh (1751-1831), army surgeon, treasurer and orator, the first surgeon engaged by the Council of War to attend the wounded after the battle of Lexington; Nathaniel Walker Appleton (1755-95), for ten years the recording secretary of the society ;


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Joseph Whipple (1756-1804), for five years corresponding secretary, and Shirley Erving (1759-1813), the most youthful of the organizers. A glance at the birth dates of these founders show how young a set of men it was that organized so valuable a society, the majority being under thirty-two-John Warren was but twenty-eight.


The earliest meetings of the society were held in the Court House, later in the Manufacturing House, one of the noted buildings in its day, located on Tremont Street, then in Mr. Furnass' painting room in Court Street, again in Concert Hall, a popular tavern, and so on down to 1901. In this year the society moved into the recently completed building of the Boston Medical Library at 8 Fenway, which place has been the domicile of the organization ever since, and seems likely to continue for many years. No more central location could have been chosen, and the situation is ideal from almost every standpoint.


The Boston Medical Library-Boston Medical Library, organized in 1875, is independent of the Medical Society, and, for that matter, from any other organization, being in this respect the only one of like character in the United States. Practically all the medical societies of Boston have deposited their medical collections there, making it the center for med- ical literature in Greater Boston. An account of this library can be found in the chapter dealing with the libraries of the city.


The Boston Medical Library, it might be mentioned, grew out of the rather ignominious ending of the Society Library in 1872. The Massa- chusetts Society founded a library in 1782 which continued in existence for ninety years, when most of the books were given to the Boston Library. The old collections served well the generations that had ac- cess to them, and it bridged a time when books were few and private own- ership was not the ordinary thing. The new organization is now the fourth largest in the country, used annually by 10,000 readers, a convinc- ing proof that such a library was needed in the capital of the Common- wealth.


Early History of the Society-Swinging again to the past, the seal as adopted by the Massachusetts Medical Society presents "a figure of Aesculapius in the proper habit, pointing to a wounded hart, nipping the herb proper for his cure," with the motto Natura Duce. The long his- tory of the body, in which are recorded the efforts and affection of hun- dreds of the best of the medical profession, in which are also the records of its failures, its many and long fights for that which it considered best for the profession is worthy of greater exploitation than it has received. The society still functions along the lines on which it started, and few better mottoes could be inscribed on its banner than "Natura Duce."


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In 1789, by an act of the Legislature, authority was given the society "to point out and describe such a mode of medical instruction as it might deem requisite for candidates prior to examination." And by further act in 1803, it was provided that its number of fellows, originally limited to seventy, might "embrace all respectable physicians and surgeons resi- dent in the State." In that same year the society voted to divide the Commonwealth into four districts, Middle, Southern, Eastern and West- ern. These organizations afterward grew into the present district so- cieties, although many changes have been made in the territory covered by each, and in the number of the districts themselves, as increases in population made such divisions necessary. Internal changes have been many as is but natural in a growing body whose existence has extended over so long a period, and which has seen medicine rise from one of the least scientific of arts whose practice ranged close to superstition, to heights little conceived of by the founders and early members.


"Sections" Under which the Society Now Functions-Among the many changes in procedure forced upon the society by its constant en- largement, one of the most important was that of dividing the work of the body into "Sections," each of which was complete in itself and which represented the principal divisions of medicine. The "Sections" first functioned in 1889, and proved to be a valuable method of handling the affairs of the society. The Section in Obstetrics was started in 1889, hold- ing its last session in 1892. The Section of Tuberculosis held its first meeting in 1907; that of Hospital Administration began in 1917; and of Diseases of Children in 1920, and at each annual meeting after these years. The Sections of Medicine and of Surgery date from 1889. The most recent "Section," the sixth, is that established in 1922, a new one of Obstetrics and Gynecology.


In the World War-The entrance of the United States into the World War found the society prepared to do its part in supplying the medical requirements of the period. The members of the society were urged to enter the national service, and a committee of five was appointed to co- operate with the government. Although the matter of securing enlist- ments in the medical corps of the Army and Navy was the work of the United States Council of National Defense, through the Massachusetts Committee, the most of the members of this committee were active mem- bers of the State society, the secretary of the society, Walter Lincoln Bur- rage, acting as secretary of the committee. According to a list of the Massachusetts physicians in the medical corps of the United States Army and Navy, the Red Cross, or British service during the great war, published by the State committee in August, 1919, after the close of the


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war, Massachusetts gave a total of 1,721 men to these services, or 31.3 per cent of all the physicians in the State, including the women, those who were too old and the physically unfit. Of those who were offered commissions by the government 1,593 actually served, or 29 per cent of all in the State at the time, a most creditable showing.


Publications of the Society-Many valuable publications have been issued by the Massachusetts Medical Society, among which are "The Medical Communications of the M. M. Society," first printed in 1790; the "Library of Practical Medicine," volumes of which covering the period from 1831 to 1868 are now on the shelves of the Boston Medical Library ; and other pamphlets and books as the times demanded. In 1914, the "Boston Medical and Surgical Journal" was taken over as a "publication" automatically ending the further printing of other character. The "Boston Medical and Surgical Journal" is one of the foremost medical journals in the country. Established in 1828, the first number being issued in February of that year, it succeeded a quarterly published from 1812 to 1827, as the "New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery and Collateral Branches of Science," and then as the "New England Med- ical Review and Journal," and also the weekly published from 1823 to 1828, under the name of the "Boston Medical Intelligencer." In 1914 it became the official organ of the Medical Society, and in 1920 and 1921 it was purchased by the society and its publication chartered by the State. The "Journal" was reorganized in April, 1921, with Dr. Walter P. Bowers as managing editor ; Dr. George G. Smith, assistant editor, and the fol- lowing editorial staff : Drs. David L. Edsall, Walter B. Cannon, Robert W. Lovett, Edward H. Nichols, Francis W. Peabody, John P. Sutherland, S. Burt Wolbach and George R. Minot. The "Journal" not only took on new vigor, but branched out into many features that have made it exceed- ingly valuable to the medical profession. The success of the "Journal" is due in a large measure to the unremitting labor of the managing editor, Dr. W. P. Bowers.


The officers of the Massachusetts Medical Society, 1781-1927, are as follows :


PRESIDENTS.


Edward Augustus Holyoke, Salem 1732-1734


William Kneeland, Cambridge.


1784-1786


Edward Augustus Holyoke, Salem. 1786-1787


Cotton Tufts, Weymouth. 1787-1795


Samuel Danforth, Boston


1795-1798


Isaac Rand, Boston. 1798-1804


John Warren, Boston


1804-1815


Joshua Fisher, Beverly


1815-1823


John Brooks, Medford 1823-1825


James Jackson, Boston


1825-1832


John Collins Warren, Boston.


1832-1836


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George Cheyne Shattuck, Boston. 1835-1840


Rufus Wyman, Roxbury ..


1840-1842


James Bigelow, Boston


1842-1847


Zadok Howe, Billerica ..


1847-1848


John Ware, Boston ..


1848-1852


George Hayward, Boston


1852-1855


Elisha Huntington, Lowell ..


1855-1857


Luther Vose Bell, Somerville.


1857-1859


John Homans, Boston.


1859-1862


Josiah Bartlett, Concord.


1862-1864


Augustus Addison Gould, Boston ..


1864-1866


Henry Coit Perkins, Newburyport.


1866-1868


Charles Gideon Putnam, Boston.


1868-1870


Samuel Augustus Fisk, Northampton.


1870-1872


George Cheyne Shattuck, Boston.


1872-1874


Benjamin Cody Cotting, Roxbury


1874-1876


William Cogswell, Bradford ...


1876-1878


George Hinckley Lyman, Boston.


1878-1880


Henry Willard Williams, Boston ..


1880-1882


Alfred Hosmer, Watertown ..


1882-1884


Charles Dudley Homans, Boston.


1884-1886


Thomas Hovey Gage, Worcester.


1886-1888


David Williams Cheever, Boston.


1888-1890


Amos Howe Johnson, Salem.


1890-1892


James Clarke White, Boston.


1892-1894


Franklin Kittredge Paddock, Pittsfield.


1894-1896


Edwin Bayard Harvey, Westborough.


1898-1900


Frank Winthrop Draper, Boston.


1900-1902


George Ebenezer Francis, Worcester.


1902-1904


Arthur Tracy Cabot, Boston.


1904-1906


George Washington Gay, Chestnut Hill.


1906-1908


Silas Dean Presbrey, Taunton


1908-1910


George Brune Shattuck, Boston


1910-1912


Walter Prentice Bowers, Clinton


1912-1914


Charles Francis Withington, Boston.


1914-1916


Samuel Bayard Woodward, Worcester 1916-1919


1919-192I


John Washburn Bartol, Boston


1921-1923


VICE-PRESIDENTS.


James Pecker, Boston. 1782-1785


Cotton Tufts, Weymouth.


1785-1787


Isaac Rand, Boston.


1787-1790


Samuel Danforth, Boston


1790-1795


Samuel Holton, Danvers.


1795-1797


Isaac Rand, Boston. 1797-1798


Ebenezer Hunt, Northampton. 1798-1800


John Warren, Boston .. 1800-1804


Joshua Fisher, Beverly


1804-1815


Thomas Welsh, Boston.


1815-1823


James Jackson, Boston.


1823-1825


Abraham Haskell, Leominster


1825-1827


Amos Holbrook, Milton


1827-1832


John Dixwell, Boston.


1832-1835


Nathaniel Miller, Franklin.


1835-1840


Stephen Bacheller, Royalston


1840-1842


Solomon Davis Townsend, Boston ..


1842-1843


Robert Thaxter, Dorchester.


1843-1845


Samuel Morrill, Boston


1845-1846


Edward Flint, Leicester.


1846-1848


Joseph Stone, Hardwick.


1848-1849


Henry Pickering Walcott, Cambridge.


1896-1898


Alfred Worcester, Waltham.


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Charles Gideon Putnam, Boston. 1849-1850


Andrew Mackie, New Bedford .. 1850-1854


James Deane, Greenfield. 1854-1857


Thomas Richardson Boutelle, Fitchburg. 1857-1859


John George Metcalf, Mendon. 1859-1862


Ebenezer Alden, Randolph 1862-1864


Henry Lyman Sabin, Williamstown.


1864-1866


Foster Hooper, Fall River.


1866-1868


Henry Lyman Sabin, Williamstown


1868-1870


Ebenezer Hunt, Davenport.


1870-1872


Benjamin Eddy Cotting, Roxbury


1872-1874


Joseph Sargent, Worcester.


1874-1876


Jonathan Walter Dandolo Osgood, Greenfield.


1876-1877


Gilman Kimball, Lowell ..


1877-1878


David Paige Smith, Springfield. I878-1880


Asa Millett, East Bridgewater


1880-1881


Thomas Hovey Gage, Worcester.


1881-1882


John Howell Mackie, New Bedford.


1882-1883


Ira Russell, Winchendon.


1883-1884


Adam Calhoun Deane, Greenfield.


1884-1885


George Nelson Munsell, Harwich.


1885-1886


John Martyn Harlow, Woburn.


1886-1887


William Gilman Breck, Springfield.


1887-1888


George Jewett, Fitchburg .. .


1888-1889


Charles Ellery Stedman, Dorchester.


1889-1890


George Danforth Colony, Fitchburg


1890-1891


Jan Joseph Bastianus Vermyne, New Bedford.


1891-1892


Francis Augustus Howe, Newburyport.


1892-1893


Zabdiel Boylston Adams, Framingham. 1893-1894


1894-1895


Andrew Martin Pierce, New Bedford.


1895-1896


Albert Wood, Worcester.


1896-1897


Samuel Warren Abbott, Wakefield.


1897-1898


Maurice Dwight Clarke, Haverhill


1898-1899


Charles Montraville Green, Boston


1899-1900


William Winslow Eaton, Danvers.


1900-1901


Augusta Chapman Walker, Greenfield.


1901-1902


Stephen William Hayes, New Bedford.


1902-1903


George Washington Gay, Chestnut Hill.


1904-1905


Frederick Henry Thompson, Fitchburg.


1905-1906


Leonard Wheeler, Worcester.


1906-1907


Francis Joel Canedy, Shelburne Falls.


1907-1908


Daniel Edward Keefe, Springfield ..


1908-1909


Joseph Gurney Pinkham, Lynn ..


1909-1910


Halbert Greenleaf Stetson, Greenfield.


1910-19II


Ernest Sanford Jack, Melrose ..


19II-1912


Francis Webster Goss, Roxbury.


1912-1913


Lyman Asa Jones, North Adams.


1913-1914


Samuel Bayard Woodward, Worcester.


1914-1915


Edmund Francis Cody, New Bedford. 1915-1916


Frederick Weston Taylor, Cambridge 1916-1917


George Pierce Twitchell, Greenfield. 1917-1919


Arthur Richmond Crandell, Taunton.


1919-1920


Frederic Ellis Jones, Quincy. 1920-1921


Brace Whitman Paddock, Pittsfield.


1921-1922


Charles Edward Mongan, Somerville.


1922-1923


RECORDING SECRETARIES.


Nathaniel Walker Appleton, Boston.


1782-1792


Josiah Bartlett, Charlestown 1792-1796


William Jackson, Boston ..


1796-1798


Frederick Augustus Sawyer, Wareham


James Forster Alleyne Adams, Pittsfield. 1903-1904


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John Fleet, Boston. 1798-1802


Thomas Danforth, Boston.


1802-1805


John Collins Warren, Boston. 1805-1814


John Dixwell, Boston. 1814-1822


Thomas Ivers Parker, Boston.


1822-1823


John Gorham, Boston.


1823-1826


George Hayward, Boston.


1826-1832


Enoch Hale, Jr., Boston.


1832-1835


John Homans, Boston.


1835-1838


Solomon Davis Townsend, Boston ..


1838-1840


George Washington Otis, Jr., Boston.


1840-1842


Samuel Morrill, Boston ..


1842-1843


David Humphreys Storer, Boston. 1843-1846


1846-1847


Alexander Thomas, Boston.


1847-1848


Charles Gideon Putnam, Boston


1848-1849


Henry Ingersoll Bowditch, Boston


1849-185I


Charles Eliot Ware, Boston.


1851-1854


Samuel Parkman, Boston


1854-1855


Benjamin Eddy Cotting, Roxbury


1855-1857


John Burroughs Alley, Boston.


1857-1862


Francis Minot, Boston ..


1862-1863


William Wallace Morland, Boston


1863-1864


Charles Dudley Homans, Boston.


1864-1865


Richard Manning Hodges, Boston.


1865-1866


David Williams Cheever, Boston 1866-1867


Calvin Gates Page, Boston.


1867-1868


Charles Walter Swan, Boston.


1868-1873


Frank Winthrop Draper, Boston. 1873-1875


Francis Webster Goss, Roxbury.


1875-1906


CORRESPONDING SECRETARIES.


John Barnard Swett, Newburyport. 1782-1787


John Warren, Boston.


1787-1800


Joseph Whipple, Boston 1800-1805


Thomas Welsh, Boston. 1805-1815


John Collins Warren, Boston.


1815-1822


John Dixwell, Boston.


1822-1832


George Hayward, Boston.


1832-1835


Enoch Hale, Jr., Boston


1835-1838


John Homans, Boston


1838-1840


Solomon Davis Townsend, Boston.


1840-1843


Samuel Morrill, Boston ..


1843-1846


David Humphreys Storer, Boston.


1846-1847


John Barnard Swett Jackson, Boston.


1847-1848


David Humphreys Storer, Boston.


1848-1849


Charles Gideon Putnam, Boston.


1849-1851


Henry Ingersoll Bowditch, Boston.


1851-1854


Charles Eliot Ware, Boston. .


1854-1857


Benjamin Eddy Cotting, Roxbury William Edward Coale, Boston ..


1864-1865


Charles Dudley Homans, Boston.


1865-1873


Charles Walter Swan, Boston.


1873-1906


SECRETARIES.


Francis Webster Goss, Roxbury.


1906-1909


Walter Lincoln Burrage, Boston. 1909-


TREASURERS.


Thomas Welsh, Boston.


1782-1798


Thomas Kast, Boston. 1798-1807


James Jackson, Boston. 1807-18II


John Gorham Coffin, Boston


1811-1818


1857-1864


Charles Gideon Putnam, Boston.


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John Gorham, Boston. 1818-1823


Jacob Bigelow, Boston .. 1823-1828


Walter Channing, Boston 1828-1840


Woodbridge Strong, Boston .. 1840-1845


Augustus Addison Gould, Boston. 1845-1847


Zabdiel Boylston Adams, Boston. 1847-1848


Augustus Addison Gould, Boston.


1848-1863


Francis Minot, Boston.


1863-1875


Frank Winthrop Draper, Boston


1875-1891


Edward Jacob Forster, Boston. .


1891-1896


Edward Marshall Buckingham, Boston.


1896-1916


Arthur Kingsbury Stone, Boston.


1917-


LIBRARIANS.


Aaron Dexter, Boston.


1782-1792


William Spooner, Boston


1792-1800


John Fleet, Boston.


1800-1813


John Dixwell, Boston


1813-1814


John Gorham, Boston.


1814-1818


William Gamage, Cambridge.


1818-1819


John Randall, Boston.


1819-1822


Walter Channing, Boston.


1822-1825


George Hayward, Boston.


1825-1826


Enoch Hale, Jr., Boston


1826-1832


David Osgood, Boston ..


1832-1838


George Washington Otis, Jr., Boston


1838-1840


Samuel Morrill, Boston. 1840-1842


Winslow Lewis, Jr., Boston.


1842-1843


Charles Gideon Putnam, Boston


1843-1846


Alexander Thomas, Boston.


1846-1847


Martin Gay, Boston.


1847-1849


Abraham Andros Watson, Boston.


1849-1854


John Burroughs Alley, Boston.


1854-1857


William Edward Coale, Boston.


1857-1864


James Clarke White, Boston.


1864-1872


David Hyslop Hayden, Boston.


1872-1884


Edwin Howard Brigham, Boston.


1884-1922


Homeopathic Medical Society-The Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society had its origin in the Homeopathic Fraternity, established in 1840 by physicians of that school, and incorporated in 1856 under the present name. In 1790 Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), placing empha- sis on a then well-known idea, that like cures like, used it as the basis of a school of medicine that became known as Homeopathy. In a day when medicine was hardly to be classed with the sciences, and the doctors kept up a constant bickering among themselves, the laity wel- comed with open arms one who spoke with authority, and held out the promise of health without heavy dosage or severe methods. In 1825 Hans Christian Gram, a native of Boston, although he had been educated in the University of Copenhagen, introduced homeopathy in this country. In 1833, Dr. Constantine Hening, one of his strongest supporters, came to this country and practiced at Philadelphia until his death in 1881. In 1835 a medical college was established at Allentown, Pennsylvania, to teach the system. Dr. Samuel Gregg of Medford becoming a convert to homeopathy in 1838, was soon joined by Dr. Josiah Flagg of Boston, Dr.


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Charles Wild, of Brookline, and Dr. C. M. Weld of Jamaica Plain. In 1840 they formed a medical club, holding their meetings at the houses of the various members. By 1850 the membership had increased to seventy, and in that year the club incorporated as the Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society.


The society and the physicians practicing homeopathy, met with op- position from the so-called "regular" doctors, which in the Massachu- setts Medical Society was carried on for twenty-five years, ending in 1877. The by-laws of the senior society were amended in 1874 so as to refuse admission to any physician professing adherence to any "ex- clusive" system. In later years the clause in the by-law was simplified so as to read "that they do not practice any exclusive system of medicine or practice medicine in a manner contrary to the code of the ethics of this society." There are now many homeopathists in the older medical society. The modern trend in medicine has been away from "schools," and the methods of practice tend always to a similarity, which thrusts into the background the particular faith to which the doctor holds.


Possibly the most notable advance made in modern medical educa- tion is not that the leading men in the profession are so far ahead of the students of the past, but that the medical fraternity as a mass are so well trained in their profession. It cannot be claimed that American medical education was not a bit backward in falling in line with the principles of higher study. Only during the present century have high requirements been demanded for admission to a medical school. Medical colleges mul- tiplied with great rapidity after the Civil War, but it remained for a more recent age to raise the standards. Boston's medical schools have been among the leaders in providing institutions where a diligent student may secure a scientific education of the highest order in preparation for his life work. There is probably no place of equal population, having so many or so complete, or more successful, medical schools.


Harvard Medical School-The Harvard Medical School was estab- lished in 1782, a rather strange late date to be associated with a univer- sity that was born in 1636. Starting in Holden Chapel in Cambridge the following year (1783), it removed to Boston in 1810, locating on Marl- borough, now Washington Street. After several changes of home the school moved into the building that now houses the Boston University College of Liberal Arts. This structure was supposed to be sufficiently large and modern to provide a home for the institution for at least forty years, but was outgrown in fifteen. In 1892 the course was extended to four years; and in 1896 the entrance conditions were raised so that ad- mission was restricted to those holding degrees. Another marked ad- vance was made in 1899 when the scope of the school was extended by




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