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KEOKUK: 
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SESSION OF 1849-50. 
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FOR THE ENSUING SESSION 
KEOKUK : 
PRINTED AT THE WHIG AND REGISTER OFFICE. 
1850. THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA.. 
Board of Trustees. 
Hon. THOS. H. BENTON, Jr., President, 
HUGH D. DOWNEY, Esq., Secretary. 
His Ex. ANSEL BRIGGS, ROBERT LUCAS, 
CURTIS BATES, DEXTER P. SMITH,. 
CHARLES BURNHAM, SILAS FOSTER, 
W. G. WOODWARD, THEO. S. PARVIN, 
GEO. ACHESON, H. W. STARR, 
E. H. LYONS, JAS. P. CARLTON, 
A. H. PALMER. 
THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, 
Was created by an Act of the General Assembly 
OF 1846-7, AND MUNIFICENTLY ENDOWED BY AN AP- 
PROPRIATION from the General Government. 3 
Faculty of Medicine, 
CHANDLER B. CHAPMAN, M. D., 
Professor of Anatomy and President of the Faculty. 
JOHN F. SANFORD, M. D., 
Professor of Surgery and Dean. 
SAMUEL G. ARMOR, M. D. 
Professor of Physiology, Pathology, and Clinical Medicine. 
D. L. M’GUGIN, M. D., 
Professor of Theory, and Practice of Medicine. 
NICHOLS HARD, M. D., 
Professor of Materia Medica, and Therapeutics. 
A. S. HUDSON, M. D. 
Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children 
HENRY M. MATTHEWS, M. D. 
Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy. 
J. C. HUGHES, M. D., 
Demonstrator of Anatomy. 4 
Catalogue of Students-I8 4 9-’50. 
STUDENTS. 
RESIDENCE. 
PRECEPTORS. 
Allen, J. C. 
Ohio, 
Dr. Hume. 
Anderson, Geo., M. D. 
Illinois. 
Bowen, Jesse 
Iowa, 
Prof. Sanford. 
Bird, T. A. 
Illinois. 
do 
Burns, James G. 
do 
do 
Clark, W. J. 
Iowa. 
J. D. Elbert, M. D. 
Crandall, Samuel M. 
Wisconsin. 
Practitioner. 
Craig, Seth H. 
Iowa. 
Prof. Sanford. 
Cross, H. Wilfred 
do 
E. S. Barrows, M. D. 
Crockwell, J. D.M., M.D. do 
Clark, M. H. 
do 
Practitioner. 
Cameron, J. 
Ohio. 
Prof. Sanford. 
Dodson, Munro 
Wisconsin. 
Prof. Chapman. 
Dillon, J. F. 
Iowa. 
E. S. Barrows, M.D. 
Elliot, Thos., M. D. 
New York. 
Forrest, J. 
Iowa. 
Fearing, Franklin 
do 
Prof. Sanford. 
Griswold, W. R. 
Illinois. 
Dr. L. Newton. 
Graham, Jno. S. 
Iowa. 
Practitioner. 
Grover, A. J., M. D. 
Illinois. 
Grover, C. J., M. D. 
do 
Harvey, S. G. 
do 
Obed Harvey, M. D. 
Hall, Lyman 
do 
Practitioner. 
Howard, Rufus 
Wisconsin. 
Geneva Med.Col.N.Y. 
Huyck, A. S. 
Iowa. 
Prof. Sanford. 
Hall, J. M. 
do 
do 
Hubbard, Freeman 
Illinois. 
do 
Harris, G. G. 
Iowa. 
do 
Kellogg, Ambrose 
Illinois. 
Prof. Everts. 
King, E. W. 
do 
A. W. King, M. D. 
Kerr, Thos. 
Wisconsin. 
D. C. Roundy, M. D. 
La Dow, Wm. C. 
Ohio. Drs. LaDow&Campbell 
Morgan, Asa 
Iowa. 
Wm. H. White, M.D. 
Morse, Jas. F. 
Illinois. 
L. F. Torrey, M. D. 
Morey, E. S., M. D. 
do 
Noyes, A. A. 
Wisconsin. 
Dr. Crandall. 
Picket, A., M. D. 
Ohio 
Potter, H. S. 
Illinois. 
Dr. W. Somers. 
Richards, Geo. W. 
do 
Prof. Richards. 5 
STUDENTS. 
RESIDENCE. 
PRECEPTORS. 
Sanford, H. C. 
Iowa. 
Prof. Sanford. 
Sears, Reuben 
Illinois. 
Dr. Plummer. 
Torrey, L. F., M. D. 
do 
Vorhes, J. T., M. D. 
Kentucky. 
Waterman, Alfred 
Illinois. 
Dr. L. Newton. 
Warne, Geo. 
Wisconsin. 
Practitioner. 
Warriner, R. C. 
Iowa. 
Wm. Hough, M. D. 
Widener, James 
do 
A. A. Jones, M. D. 
Witter, M. D. 
do 
Win. H. White, M. D. 
do 
Wolf, James W. 
Illinois. 
Dr. Clark, 
Wyatt, Thos. M. D 
Ohio. 
Cri'ad nates. 
At the Annual Commencement, held on the 20th of Feb- 
ruary, 1850, and a Commencement in June, 1850, the follow- 
ing gentlemen received the degree of Doctor of Medicine : 
NAMES. 
SUBJECT OF THESIS. 
RESIDENCE. 
Crandall, Samuel M. Pneumonia, 
Wisconsin. 
Craig, Seth II. 
Medical Physiognomy, 
Iowa. 
Cross, H. W. 
Anaesthesias, 
do 
Dillon, J. F. 
Cholera Frigida, 
do 
Dodson, Munro 
Pathology. 
Wisconsin. 
Graham, J. S. 
Acute Peritonitis, 
Iowa. 
Hall, Lyman, 
Physiology of Man, 
Illinois. 
Howard, Rufus 
Malignant Dysentery, 
Wisconsin- 
Huyck, A. J. 
Inflammation, 
Iowa. 
Kerr, Thos., Physiology of the Secernent Syste 
m, Illinois. 
Noyes, A. A 
History of Surgery, 
Wisconsin. 
Potter, II. S. 
Prognosis, 
Illinois. 
Warne, Geo. 
Pathology of Asthma, 
Wisconsin. 
Waterman, Alfred, Auscultation, 
Illinois. 
Warriner, R. C. j 
| Laws & Relations of the Nervous, I y 
[Vascular, and Muscular Systems. £ °'va 
At the same time, the Honorary Degree of Doctor in 
Medicine was conferred upon the following gentlemen : 
Doctor M. H. Clark, Iowa. 
“ William Weatherford, do 
“ Luke Hale, Illinois. 
“ K. D. Barton, Iowa. 6 
ANNUAL CIRCULAR. 
The Trustees and Faculty of the Medical Department of 
the Iowa State University, in making their Annual An- 
nouncement, take pleasure in stating to their friends through- 
out the North-west, that the prospects of the Institution are 
of the most flattering character. 
It will be perceived, that since the last Annual Announce- 
ment, the Institution has been removed from the town of 
Davenport, to the City of Keokuk, Iowa. This change of 
location, desirable on many accounts, is especially so in re- 
ference to the cultivation of Anatomy and Clinical Medi- 
cine, in respect to which, there is a growing interest felt by 
the American Medical profession. 
The City of Keokuk, possessing commercial advantages 
unequalled by any other point on the Upper Mississippi, is 
destined at no distant day to take a position amongst the 
prominent Cities of the West, and with a population of sev- 
eral thousand souls, already offers anatomical facilities, and 
opportunities for Clinical instruction superior to any other 
place in the State. In view of these facts, and recognizing 
the justness of the sentiment enunciated by the American 
Medical Association, in reference to thorough instruction in 
those important branches of Medical Science, the Faculty 
did not hesitate to incur the transient disadvantage of remov- 
al, when it would enable them to comply with the demands 
of their professional brethren, and to locate the Medical De- 
partment of the State University, where, by uniting these ad- 
vantages to the fullest extent, they could illustrate its high- 
est objects, and make it an ornament to the State, whose at- 
tention to the interests of science gave it existence, and 
whose fostering care will insure its perpetuity. This last 
remark is made in reference to a change of character which 
the Institution has undergone since the last Annual An- 
nouncement. Then it was an individual enterprize, strug- 
gling into existence beneath an opposition of envy and rival- 
ry, foreign to the spirit of science, but stimulated by a hope, 
that the fluctuations incident to unaided effort would over- 
whelm it. Now it is a department and integral part of the 7 
University of a State, with an intellectual and cultivated 
population, and unrivalled in all the elements of substantial 
wealth. 
Gratifying, however, as is this change to the friends of 
Medical Science in the West, and especially to the friends 
and Alumni of this College, the Faculty do not wish by any 
means to be understood as predicating its perpetuity exclu- 
sively upon this ground. It is only one element of success ; 
but, when superadded to others essential in their nature to 
its prosperity, serves to enlarge the basis of confidence. 
It is with feelings of peculiar gratification that the Faculty 
refer to the generous liberality of the citizens of this City, 
whose munificent donations have already enabled them to 
place under contract an adequate and commodious edifice 
for their occupation the coming winter; the commendable 
liberality of Hugh T. Reid, Esq., one of our eminent citizens, 
has supplied us with ample and beautiful grounds ; and the 
plans submitted by the Architect, and subsequently embrac- 
ed in the contracts, provide for the requisite Lecture and 
Cabinet rooms, with apartments, large, well lighted and well 
ventilated for anatomical pursuits. 
In addition to this, the City Council, in the true spirit of 
humanity, and actuated by a desire to afford to the Medical 
College every requisite facility, has made an appropriation 
for building a Hospital in connection with the College edi- 
fice, which will be put under contract immediately. The 
plans and arragements upon which this appropriation was 
based, embody everything incident to an institution of this 
kind, and there is the surest guarranty that the establish- 
ment will be conducted on the most approved and liberal 
scale. Medical Students will be admitted to the wards free 
of charge throughout the year, and from the charity bills 
paid by the City during the past twro years, we are assured 
that the most ample opportunities for clinical instruction 
and surgical operations will be afforded. 
In view of this arrangement, the Department of Clinical 
Medicine has been added to the Chair of Pathology, filled 
since the organization of the College, by Professor Samuel 
G. Armor, whose abilities as a teacher are so extensively 
known. To those who have listened to Prof. Armor’s able 
and interesting lectures on Special Pathology and Physical 
Diagnosis, nothing need be said of the wisdom of the cast. 
He will locate permanently in the City of Keokuk, and, aid- 8 
ed by our eminent Professor of Theory and Practice, will 
make this department everything which the friends of Medi- 
cal Science could wish. 
Under these favorable auspices the Faculty cherish the 
hope that the friends of Medical Education in Iowa, and 
throughout the north-west, will see a guarranty of useful- 
ness and permanancy, and that their friends everywhere will 
receive assurances of their desire to participate in the effort 
which is being made, to place the courses of instruction in 
Medical Colleges upon a more respectable and elevated ba- 
sis. A strict compliance with the recommendations of the 
American Medical Association will be their constant aim, 
and they can offer no better evidence of their sincerity and 
probable success, than the change of location which has 
lately been made, and which will enable them fully and sat- 
isfactorily to comply with the requisitions of that body, in 
reference to the important departments of Practical Anato- 
my and Clinical Medicine. 
With these remarks, the Faculty will close their Annual 
Circular. They are convinced that no claims of excellence, 
however eloquently urged, can compensate for any deficien- 
cy in the courses of instruction, or satisfy the mind of the 
American Student, recently aroused to a sense of the impor- 
tance of a thorough elementary Medical Education. 
They will be happy to rest their hopes of success upon 
an enlightened professional opinion, and to that impartial 
tribunal will be at all times proud to appeal. 9 
Course of Instruction. 
The regular Course of Lectures in this Institution will 
commence on the first Monday in November, and continue 
sixteen weeks. There will be six lectures daily on the fol- 
lowing branches of Medical Science : 
GENERAL AND SPECIAL ANATOMY. 
PROFESSOR CHAPMAN. 
This course embraces a description and demonstration of 
the entire structure of the human body. The Professor is 
abundantly supplied with plates, diagrams, models, and pre- 
parations, and it is intended to teach Anatomy in a way that 
will impress its primary truths, and through them to con- 
firm a knowledge of its more difficult parts. Particular at- 
tention will be paid to the surgical regions, and throughout 
the course it will be remembered that the uses of Anatomy 
and the objects for which it is studied, are its applications to 
practice. 
Books of Reference—Wilson’s Anatomy, Cruvelhier’s 
Anatomy, and Smith and Horner’s Atlas. 
INSTITUTES AND PRACTICE OF SURGERY. 
PROFESSOR SANFORD. 
The lectures on Surgery will commence with the outlines 
of Surgical Pathology, including those diseases which affect 
all organic tissues—as inflammation, scrofula, cancer, en- 
cephaloid and wounds. Dislocations and fractures will re- 
ceive especial attention, and all the modern operations will 
be presented upon the subject—as Tenotomy, Myotomy and 
Anaplasty. In their proper place the details of Minor Sur- 
gery will be explained, including dressings, bandaging, &c. 
Every opportunity will be improved to present to the class 
Clinical cases that offer for the benefit of advice, or opera- 
tion, and the wards of the Hospital being open for the class 
it is hoped good opportunity may be afforded for attention to 
operative surgery. 
A good collection of drawings, casts and models are at the 
disposal of the Professor. 
Books of Reference—Miller’s Principles of Surgery, Mil- 
ler’s Practice of Surgery, Liston’s Surgery and Pancoast’s 
Operative Surgery. PHYSIOLOGY, PATHOLOGY AND CLINICAL MED- 
ICINE. 
PROFESSOR ARMOR. 
The lectures on these important branches of Medical Sci- 
ence, will include a consideration of the general laws of 
formation, and a description of individual Organic Systems, 
the doctrines connected with these, being the only true basis 
of pathological science. Lesions of Circulation, Nutrition, 
Secretion, and Innervation, will receive attention, and the 
principles deduced from their consideration applied to spe- 
cial pathology and analysis of individual disease. 
Every effort will be made to convey a lively and correct 
impression of the condition of parts to the mind of the stu- 
dent, and for this purpose the Professor has obtained a full 
series of preparations and drawings. 
It is hoped the City Hospital will furnish adequate means 
for clinical instruction, and the student will there have an 
opportunity under the direction of the Professor, of marking 
the progress and termination of disease, and the effect of 
Therapeutic agents. 
Books of Reference— Carpenter’s Human Physiology, 
Kirke’s and Paget’s Physiology, Stille’s Pathology, Andral’s 
Pathology, Williams’ Principles of Medicine, Watson’s 
Practice, Grave’s Clinical Lectures. 
THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. 
PROFESSOR M’GUGIN. 
The lectures on the Theory and Practice of Medicine will 
be thoroughly illustrated by drawings, specimens of morbid 
structure, and every other available means. The more impor- 
tant Physiological and Pathological doctrines, as connected 
with the life-forces, death, sympathy, &c., will be referred 
to, and the subject of Idiopathic and Symptomatic fevers du- 
ly considered. Miasmatic Fevers, the endemics of the Mis- 
sissippi Valley will receive especial attention, and the prin- 
ciples connected with their Etiology, Symptomalogy, Diag- 
nosis, Prognosis and Treatment duly enforced. 
Books of Reference—Watson’s, Elliston’s and Wood’s 
Practice. 
MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS. 
PROFESSOR HARD. 
These lectures will include an examination into the nature, 
history and uses of all articles employed medicinally. The 
modus operandi of medicines, and their Therapeutic appli- 
cation will be explained, and the entire course will be well illustrated by drawings, specimens and dried preparations- 
Books of Reference—Pereira, Royle, U. S. Dispensatory. 
OBSTETRICS AND DISEASES OF WOMEN AND 
CHILDREN. 
PROFESSOR HUDSON. 
It will be the object of the Professor of this branch to 
make the course as practical as possible ; with this view 
he has secured an unrivalled collection of drawings, prepar- 
ations, models and machines. Obstetrics has assumed at 
length its proper rank, as an important division of Scientific 
Medicine, and the Professor will strive to inculcate a knowl- 
edge of a process which in a majority of instances is natural- 
ly and healthfully conducted to a favorable termination, and 
also examine those more complicated conditions, which de- 
mand so much self-reliance and skill in the medical atten- 
dant. The form and application of instruments, the mode 
of effecting artificial delivery, and other points are fully dis- 
cussed. 
Books of Reference—Ramsbotham’s, Rigsby’s, Meig’s 
Midwifery, Bennett on the Uterus, West and Condie on 
Children. 
CHEMISTRY AND PHARMACY. 
PROFESSOR MATTHEWS. 
In this department it will be made a constant object to 
teach the Elementary principles of Chemical science, with- 
out a knowledge of which, no one can hope to understand its 
more intricate parts. 
The rules of Chemical nomenclature, the phenomena of 
Caloric, light, electricity and galvanism, the properties of 
simples and compounds,are displayed in their most intelligible 
aspects. The Laboratory of the College contains abundant 
apparatus and materiel for preparing and illustrating a Chem- 
ical course ; and the modifications and improvements of mod- 
ern art are constantly added. 
Books of Reference—Fowne’s Chemistry for Students, 
Kane’s and Turner’s Chemistry, Faraday’s Chemical Mani- 
pulations. 
PRACTICAL ANATOMY. 
J. C. HUGHES, M. D. 
The Anatomical rooms will be large, -well lighted and 
well ventilated, and nothing will be wanting to the Medical 
student, either in the supply of material for dissection, or in 
attention on the part of the Demonstrator. 12 
Examinations.—Daily examinations upon the subjects 
of the preceding lectures, will be instituted by each Profes- 
sor. In this way it is found that the most important princi- 
ples and facts, developed in their respective courses, are more 
effectually impressed upon the memory. 
Regulations for tlic Term of Lectures. 
The next session will commence on the first Monday in 
November, and continue sixteen weeks. The Annual Com- 
mencement will be held, and the degrees conferred immedi- 
ately after the close of the term. 
Every student will be required, within ten days after the 
opening of the session, to take the Matriculation ticket, and 
pay the regular fee. 
The following are the requisitions for the Diploma: 
1st. The candidate must be twenty-one years of age. 
2d. He must have attended two courses of Medical Lec- 
tures ; one of which must have been delivered in the Medi- 
cal Department of the Iowa State University; or evidence 
of three years reputable practice, will be regarded as equiv- 
alent to one course. 
3d. The candidate must have studied medicine fot- two 
years, under the direction of a respectable medical practi- 
tioner. 
4th. He must write a Medical Thesis, either in the Eng- 
lish, Latin, French or German language. 
5th. He must pass an examination satisfactory to the 
Faculty, and pay the graduation fee in advance. 
Fees, &c., &c. 
The fees for a full course of Lectures amount to $70. 
The student may attend one or more of the courses, as he 
may be disposed, and pay only for the Lectures for which 
he enters. 
The fee for the Diploma is $20. The Matriculation fee 
is $5. The fee for admission to the dissecting rooms and 
demonstrations is $5. 
Members of the Profession from every part of the country, 
who are Graduates of Medicine, will, on presenting their 
diploma to the Dean and paying the matriculation fee, be 
admitted gratuitously to all the lectures. 
Board can be obtained in the city at from $1 50 to $2 00 
per week. Medical Books may be purchased at our exten- 
sive City Book Stores, on as good terms as in any Western 
city. JOHN F. SANFORD, M. D., 
Dean of the Medical Faculty. PROSPECTUS 
OF THE 
fflSTIl ISDICI-CHIlUgBICAL JIURIAL. 
The undersigned propose to enter upon the editorial manage- 
ment of a Journal of Medical Science, bearing the above title, to 
be devoted to the interests and purposes of Western Physicians, 
and issued monthly in the City of Keokuk, Iowa. 
It is not that we believe Science has boundaries—save those 
formed by truth—that we devote this periodical to ttie special 
purposes of our brethren in this interesting portion of the world, 
but in witnessing the rapid progress of the Medical profession 
abroad, the pride of laudable energy is naturally stimulated to a 
reflection upon the position the profession is capable of assum- 
ing at home, and this reflection develops the fact, thit amongst 
the many instrumentalities employed to advance the honor and 
usefulness of Medicine, none has done more than the Press. This 
engine of utility and power is more needed in this portion of our 
country than anything else, to exhibit to the world the fidelity of 
its Physicians to the interests of their Science, and the multi- 
plicity of useful tiuths with which their land abounds. 
Like all humble and sincere elforts, it is not expected that the 
size of the work will be at once commensurate with its fullest 
objects, but, in view of the many extraneous duties necessarily 
connected with the practice of Medicine in the West, and the 
small portion of time our practitioners aie able to devote to 
journal reading, it is believed, a periodical containing a synopsis 
of all real improvements in the Science, and such incidental no- 
tices of foreign intelligence as maybe useful, is better adapted 
to their wants than the voluminous works which emanate quar- 
terly from the Eastern and European press. In addition to this 
monthly periscope, we shall devote a brief space to a review of 
new books ; but the principle portion of the work will be devoted 
to the publication of original articles from the Physicians of 
Iowa, Illinois, Missouri and Wisconsin-, upon the Medical Bot- 
any, Topography, the Climate and Diseases of these respective 
regions, with such practical remarks as experience may sanc- 
tion. In this way we shall contribute a valuable share to the 
Medical Literature of our country, and secure a co-operation with 
the profession in other portions of the World, in the effort to 
disseminate and rendbr useful the truths of Medical Science. 
With these remarks, we shall commend our Journal to the 
kindness and care of the eight hundred of our professional breth- 
ren throughout the region above specified, assuring them that its 
permanancy is certain, and earnestly soliciting their aid in ex- 
tending its circulation, and in filling its pages. 
The Journal will contain Twenty-four octavo pages of reading 
matter, and will be sent to subscribers at $2 per annum, in ad- 
vance. The first number will be issued the first of September. 
Our friends will please send in their names prior to that time, 
with the accompanying funds. 
JOHN F. SANFORD, 
r SAMUEL G. ARMOR. 
Keokuk, August 1,1850.