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tion, and was destined eventually, though only for a short period, to 

 occupy a very prominent position in the public eye. A wide field 

 of glory and usefulness now lay before him, and he was not slow in 

 availing himself of its advantages. Most of his associates in the 

 school were men of mark and merit. Dr. Benjamin W. Dudley, his 

 brother-in-law, the incumbent of the surgical chair, had already 

 achieved a high reputation as a teacher and an operator ; patients 

 flocked to him from all parts of the Mississippi Valley, and in a short 

 time he became the great lithotomist of America. His only rivals 

 were Physick and Mott ; but, owing to the great distance which sepa- 

 rated him from them, they were so only in name. He was literally, 

 for a number of years, " monarch of all he surveyed." 



Dr. Charles Caldwell graced the chair of the Institutes of Medi. 

 cine. A resident of Philadelphia, a man of great and varied talents, 

 well read in and out of his profession, his fame had preceded him 

 to Lexington ; and it is but justice to say that he contributed most 

 largely, by his writings and teachings, to build up and give temporary 

 edat to its medical school. His tongue and pen were never idle. 

 A more majestic figure on the rostrum could hardly be imagined. 

 Tall and erect in person, with a noble head and a piercing black eye, 

 he was the beau ideal of an elegant, entertaining, and accomplished 

 lecturer. He was eloquent, but too artificial, for he had cultivated 

 elocution too much before the mirror. 



Dr. Daniel Drake, afterwards so distinguished as a teacher and a 

 writer, had only a few years before made his debut in public. Em- 

 phatically a self-made man. he possessed genius of a superior order, 

 and successfully coped with his colleagues for the highest place in the 

 school. Of all the medical teachers I have ever known he was, all 

 things considered, one of the most able, captivating, and impressive. 

 There was an earnestness, a fiery zeal about him in the lecture-room, 

 which encircled his person, as it were, with a halo of glory. The 

 great work which he has left behind him on the " Diseases of the 

 Mississippi Valley," attests his industry and talents, and forms a 

 monument to his memory as enduring as the vast region of country 

 whose maladies he has so glowingly and faithfully portrayed. 



Dr. Holley, a man of brilliant talents, elegant accomplishments, and 

 superior literary attainments, was President of the University ; and, 

 although not immediately connected with the medical department, 

 nevertheless exerted considerable influence on its destiny. Lexing- 

 ton, emphatically the garden spot of Kentucky, was at that time 

 justly regarded as the "Athens of the West;" its University had 

 high pretensions ; it was the home of Henry Clay ; its bar was famous 



