for sixty years. To uphold it, her doors spoke a special wel- ^^ 

 come to youths with the will for medicine ; and every entrant 

 was supposed to have such. Once in, it was then up to him as 

 to how much he would take unto himself of the educational 

 repast set before him, for Rush's tables carried large and varied 

 assortment. Police supervision was largely absent — men did 

 their best because they wished to, not because they had to. The 

 lock step and standardization still lay some years in the future. 



In Wherry's student years a remarkable (and numerically 

 large) number of teachers maintained Rush's common pur- 

 pose. In medicine, James B Herrick, Norman Bridge, Frank 

 Billings and Bertram Sippy were simultaneously active in 

 bringing into hospital teaching a learning gatherable only 

 from years of practical experience with sickness in the field; 

 while D W Graham, Christian Fenger and Nicholas Senn 

 (with J B Murphy soon to help them) were doing the same 

 for surgery. J Clarence Webster (import from Canada) 

 preached the doctrine that surgical gynecology was so glori- 

 ously triumphant because physiological obstetrics was so badly 

 defeated. But the general idea that a sick man is forever the 

 centre of interest in the medical picture and that the doctor 

 must see the picture as a whole, was stressed even by those who 

 made up the specialties. Ophthalmologists, dermatologists and 

 neurologists were not afraid to treat constitutional syphilis or 

 kidney disease; even as the surgeons were not afraid to limit 

 their therapeutic ventures to straightout medicine; nor the 

 internists to make final diagnoses in the fields of the specialties, 

 and without consultation. 



This wide-angled view was characteristic even of the men 

 who composed what have since become known as the preclini- 

 cal, academic or scientific years of the medical curriculum. 

 Walter Stanley Haines's chemistry embraced not only its 

 fundamentals, but everything that to-day goes as biochemis- 

 try, diagnosis by laboratory methods, pharmacology, toxicol- 

 ogy, pharmacy, drug therapy and forensic medicine, not to 

 mention much medical history; Arthur Dean Bevan and Dean 

 Lewis made dead-house anatomy live once more in surgical 

 terms, while John M Dodson stressed for physiology (unhap- 

 pily to minds too often too young to understand) that there 

 was "greater interest in a live issue than in a dead tissue." 



