1865.] 175 [Gros!. 



throughout the hind ; and its women were noted for their personal 

 charms and great acconiplishinents. 



With j^uch men as his compeers, Dr. Short had every inducement 

 for exertion; and there is reason to believe that, quiet and unosten-. 

 tatious as he was, he exercised no ordinary influence in sustaining 

 the reputation of the University. His heart and soul were thoroughly 

 in the work. The school soon rose to an unprecedented degree of 

 prosperity, which it steadily maintained until the dissolution of its 

 great Faculty in 1837. 



In 1828 he founded, along with his colleague. Dr. John Esten 

 Cooke, the "Transylvania Journal of IMedicine and the Associate 

 Sciences." With this publication, which for a long time wielded an 

 important influence in moulding the opinions and practice of the 

 groat body of physicians of the Southwest, he continued his connec- 

 tion until the close of the fourth volume, zealously laboring for its 

 interests and those of Transylvania University, whose prosperity it 

 was more particularly designed to promote. In this periodical is to 

 be found nearly everything that Dr. Short ever contributed to the 

 public press. 



In 1837, the Medical Department of Transylvania University, after 

 a period of eighteen years of extended usefulness and remarkable 

 fame, experienced a violent convulsion, which shook it to its very 

 centre. Dissatisfaction of a serious character had existed for several 

 years among some of the Faculty in regard to the manner of con- 

 ducting its afi"airs. The school had grown too large for the place where 

 it was located ; there was a great dearth of anatomical material, and 

 clinical instruction was, in great measure, neglected on account of the 

 absence of hospital facilities. Owing to these circumstances a part 

 of the Faculty withdrew, and accepted chairs in the medical school 

 at Louisville, whither Dr. Short soon followed, although the Trustees 

 of the University, upon reorganizing the Faculty, had reappointed 

 him to his former situation. 



In the University of Louisville, then a young but destined soon to 

 be a gigantic institution. Short had the same chair as the one he had 

 just vacated at Lexington. Here he quietly and unostentatiously 

 pursued " the even tenor of his way," devoting himself to botanical 

 researches and literary studies, and zealously co-operating with his 

 distinguished colleagues, of whom the great Drake was again one, in 

 promoting the interests and prosperity of the school, which soon rose 

 to an extraordinary height, students flocking to it from all sections of 

 the Mississippi Valley, until its spacious halls were completely crowd- 

 ed. The number of its pupils in 1847 was upwards of 400. Such 



