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SCIENCE. 



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Medical School until his death in 1861, 

 having succeeded to the professorship of 

 theory and practice of physic upon the 

 death of Dr. Smith in 1829, and becoming 

 emeritus in 1853. He was a highly re- 

 spected physician of large practice in this 

 city. He was widely known as a botanist, 

 and was credited with the most extensive 

 knowledge of the indigenous materia med- 

 icaof any man of his day, a tasfce for which 

 he had acquired from his preceptor, Dr. 

 Munson. His mind was richly stored with 

 facts, and all were impressed with the value 

 of his teachings. 



Dr. Jonathan Knight, who was only 

 twenty-three when appointed professor, be- 

 came one of the most influential men in the 

 medical profession of this country, having 

 been twice president of the American Medi- 

 cal Association. He was tranferred to the 

 chair of surgery upon the death of Dr. 

 Hubbard in 1838. Of dignified personal 

 appearance and manner, with well-bal- 

 anced mental powers, and fine literary cul- 

 ture, Dr. Knight has probably never had 

 his superior in any medical school in this 

 country as a finished lecturer. He was an 

 active teacher in the Medical School for 

 fifty-one years, dying only a few months 

 before Professor Silliman, the latest sur- 

 vivor of the first medical faculty. 



With this able and devoted group of 

 teachers and a class of thirty-three students 

 the Medical School began its work in No- 

 vember, 1813. To follow in detail its his- 

 tory from that day to this would far exceed 

 the limits of this address. I regret that I 

 can do no more than make mention of some 

 of the professors who have passed to the 

 majority : Thomas Hubbard, of necessity 

 an inadequate successor of Dr. Nathan 

 Smith in the chair of surgery, a plain, self- 

 taught man, of whom Dr. Knight says that 

 he filled his position to the time of his death 

 in 1838 ' with great and increasing reputa- 

 tion to himself and benefit to the institu- 



tion ' ; William Tully, a really remarkable 

 man, of whom I had hoped to say much 

 more, erudite, original, an experimentalist, 

 unrivaled in his knowledge of the materia 

 medica, an extensive contributor to medi- 

 cal literature ; Charles Hooker, of good 

 scientific training, who had the great merit 

 of introducing the newer medicine with its 

 methods of physical examination into New 

 Haven, a writer of valuable papers on 

 auscultation and percussion and on physio- 

 logical subjects ; Henry Bronson, scholarly, 

 devoted to antiquarian research, contributor 

 of important papers on medical history and 

 biography ; Worthington Hooker, inter- 

 ested in medical education and the improve- 

 ment of professional organization, a facile 

 writer, widely known as a useful popularizer 

 of natural science ; Moses Clark White, for 

 thirty-three 3^ ears professor of pathology, 

 who taught as early as 1860 the use of the 

 microscope in medicine in this School ; 

 Leonard Jacob Sanford, a faithful teacher 

 of anatomy for nearly a quarter of a cen- 

 tury, devoted to the interests of the Med- 

 ical School ; James Kingsley Thacher, en- 

 dowed with unusual intellectual powers and 

 capacity for original scientific investigation, 

 eminent as a comparative anatomist, abreast 

 of modern physiology and clinical medicine, 

 whose early removal by death was an irrep- 

 arable loss to this Medical School and to 

 medical and biological science. 



While I refrain in general from mention 

 of the names of those who are still living 

 and are the faithful and able successors of 

 these distinguished men, I cannot in this 

 connection pass over the name of Dr. Charles 

 Augustus Lindsley, a member of the medi- 

 cal faculty for thirty-seven j^ears and its 

 executive officer for twenty-three years, a 

 devoted teacher and eminent sanitarian. 



The period of greatest prosperity' of the 

 Medical School, until quite recent years, 

 was the first two decades of its existence, in 

 which the average annual attendance of 



