VALEDICTORY ADDRESS 
TO THE 
GRADUATING CLASS 
OF 
HAHNEMANN 
]Vledical College and Hospital, 
OF CHICAGO, 
MARCH 19tli, 1874, 
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Professor of Obstetrics and the Diseases of Women and Children, 
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THE REPORT OF THE REGISTRAR, THE PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS, AND CATA- 
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LOGUE OF THE STUDENTS AND GRADUATES. 
CHICAGO: 
Sinclair & Blair, Book and Job Printers, 182 & 184 Clark Street, 
1874. VALEDICTORY ADDRESS 
TO THE 
GRADUATING CLASS 
OF 
HAHNEMANN 
JYledical College and Hospital, 
OF CHICAGO, / 
MARCH I Utii, 1874, 
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Profossor of Obstetrics and the Diseases of Women and Children, 
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THE REPORT OF THE REGISTRAR, THE PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS, AND CATA- 
LOGUE OF THE STUDENTS AND GRADUATES. 
CHICAGO: 
Sinclair & Blair, Book and Job Printers, 182 & 184 Clark Street, 
1874. FACULTY. 
A. E. SMALL, M. D„ 
Emeritus Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine. 
C. J. HEMPEL, M. D., 
D. S. SMITH, M. D„ 
Emeriti Professors of Materia Medica. 
R. LUDLAM, M. D., 
Professor of Obstetrics and the Diseases of Women and Children. 
R. WELCH, M. D„ 
Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology. 
J. S. MITCHELL, M. D., 
Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine and Clinical Medicine. 
TEMPLE S. IIOYNE, M. D., 
Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. 
WILLIS DANFORTII, M. D„ 
Professor of Clinical and Operative Surgery. 
S. P. HEDGES, M. D„ 
Professor of General and Descriptive Anatomy. 
E. M. HALE, M. D„ 
Professor of Medical Botany, Pharmacology, and Therapeutics of Mew Remedies. 
LEONARD PRATT, M. D.. 
Professor of Special Pathology and Diagnosis. 
W. H. WOODY ATT, M. D„ 
Professor of Opthalmic and Aural Surgery. 
CHAS. ADAMS, M. D„ 
Professor of Surgical Pathology and Minor Surger;/. 
J. R. KIPPAX, M. D„ 
Adjunct Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine and Clinical Medicine. 
E. II. PRATT, M. D., 
Adjunct Professor of Anatomy. 
CHAS. C. BONNEY, LL. D„ 
lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence. 
GEO. A. HALL, M. I)., 
Lecturer on Institutes of Surgery, and Surgical. Anatomy. 
A. G. BEEBE, M. D„ 
Lecturer on Physiology and Pathology. Valedictory Address. 
Members of the Graduating Class : 
In the name of the Trustees and Faculty of your Alma 
Mater, it is my pleasant duty to tender you their warmest con- 
gratulations on the successful accomplishment of your desires, and on 
the fact that you now stand clothed with the honors of the Doctorate. 
This fruition of your hopes is very gratifying to your teachers, as well 
as to yourselves and to your personal friends. And in parting with you, 
I am bade to say something which shall indicate our interest in your 
Avelfare, and which may influence your future career. 
The Trials and Rewards of the Physician are peculiar. As the 
years roll by, you will realize what they are. You are now upon the 
threshold of professional life; henceforth you will be engaged in, and 
engrossed with, a practical pursuit that will involve the application of 
what you have learned. And, since the step just taken places you in 
new relations with yourselves and with everybody else, let me rehearse 
some of the ups and downs that you will be likely to note in your 
march through life. 
The fiiqns of the times will soon indicate vour whereabouts; but 
the trouble will be that nobody will see them. They may creak, and 
groan, and beckon for a long time, day and night, before a special Prov- 
idence sends you a paying patient. The busy world will rush by while 
it is well, and when it is ill will run for the “old” doctor instead of 
the “ new ” one. And so you may be left, perhaps for a tedious period, 
to curse the Fates because your hair is not grey, or your whiskers 
grown, or because you have not a patriarchal household of your own 
as a criterion of your professional ability. 
Nobody’s lot is more forlorn than that of the young physician who 
has lighted in the midst of a great congregation of strangers, who care 
nothing for his present attainments, or for his undeveloped capacities. 
You will feel the wet blanket coming down on your aspirations when 4 
you must live upon hard-tack and wait for cripples. It will test your 
love for your calling, your honor, your determination and endurance, 
and your real merit also, to see those prosper who have engaged in other 
pursuits, while you are praying and hoping to get a start and to succeed. 
Under these circumstances a case of hysterics would be like the heav- 
enly manna in the wilderness. If the tailor’s son would only drop his 
father’s goose on his toes, and you could be sent for; or, if the selfish 
old doctor across the way would now and then say a word in your favor ; 
if there was some practical and positive reason for your going somewhere, 
for something, to please somebody, and to cure somebody, and to get 
your pay for it, your professional adolescence would be more tolerable. 
But to sit “ like Patience on a monument ” is as nothing compared with 
being forced to sit on one’s own monument waiting for patients. 
Men sometimes complain of “doctors’ bills,’’ but the bills that come 
to the young doctor before he can return the compliment, are more 
frightful and formidable by far. For how shall he live, and wherewithal 
shall he be clothed? If he was a clergyman or an attorney, he might 
mix in society and make acquaintance; but a doctor has no more busi- 
ness th;ui an undertaker where people are sound in health and jolly 
withal. 
The young parson gains tin* ears of the people legitimately, and the 
young lawyer may set them by the ears in the shortest space. No rea- 
son is assigned why a young dentist should not begin to extract our teeth 
as soon as he is strong enough ; and merchants and druggists, and even 
editors yet in their teens, are no rarity. But the young doctor is under 
the ban of advertising. lie must serve a probation, the length of 
which, as a rule, is in ratio with his reputation in later years. 
“ ’Tis not now, who’s stout and bold, 
But who bears hunger best, and cold ; 
And lie’s approved the most deserving 
Who longest can hold out at starving.” 
To find himself in the full tide of practice, directly after taking 
his degree, might be the worst thing that could happen him. This 
accident has made more drones and parasites, more mediocre practi- 
tioners than all other causes combined. And yet, the road before the 
beginner is so long and tedious and discouraging that such a mis- 
fortune is likely to be courted and coveted, no matter what the ultimate 5 
cost. By and by lie may have cases that are troublesome and un- 
promising, but they will never worry him like the early and incurable 
tongue-tie of his own door-bell. 
In tlic outset it is very natural that our young hero should feel 
himself thoroughly prepared for the practical duties of his profession. 
But whether the execution will equal the promise it is impossible to 
predict. Much will depend upon the quality as well as the number of 
his patients, his tact and contact, his dress and address, and also upon 
a, mutual good feeling and forbearance between the doctor and those 
who consult him. 
The Diploma just conferred certifies to your medical and surgica 
ability, but it will not shield you from criticism. It gives you a legal 
protection and sanction, but the most ignorant man in the community 
may sue you at the law for the error of having saved his life. The au- 
tographs of this honorable Faculty which are appended to the instru- 
ment, will not protect you from abuse. And one of your earliest and 
sorest trials will be that your advice will not always be taken, and that 
your honest efforts to restore health, and to preserve it, will be counter- 
acted and thwarted by those who assume to know more than you. 
These inconsiderate quacks are omnipresent, and almost omnipotent. 
How to antidote their impertinence, which has indeed been sugar- 
coated with a friendly interest in the sufferer, will often put you to 
your wit’s end, and tax your good nature to the utmost. 
Perhaps one reason why physicians are less tolerant of each other’s 
peculiarities than they should be, is that they are forced to be amiable 
to all their patients and to indulge them in all sorts of caprices. Noth- 
ing so mortifies the young doctor as to be discharged, and to find his 
place supplied by another. But, if his course has been an honorable 
one, and if he has faithfully endeavored to cure his patient, such a dis- 
missal implies no disgrace. There are social, personal, and morbid an- 
tagonisms which make this experience inevitable. To accommodate 
himself to circumstances; to obey the dictates of that politeness which 
is 
“ To do and say 
The kindest thing, in the kindest way;” 
to make the best of the rebuff; and not to loose his head, or in any 
way to commit a professional suicide, may tend to the developement and 6 
discipline of his character. And, when the wheel comes around, he will 
succeed his neighbor. 
To be forced to give place to a mere pretender, a member of the 
Veneering family, who is all surface and show, and who lacks the in- 
grain, textural, organic qualities of the genuine physician; to com- 
pete with incompetency, with one whose claims are meretricious, no 
matter what his school of practice, is exceedingly disagreeable. To 
witness for the first time that doctors themselves are fallible; that the 
members of a learned and liberal profession, so-called, are especially 
beset with, and often overcome by the sin of prevarication; and to 
discover that the nearer and more intimate the relations of a profession 
with the domestic, home-life of the people, the greater the proneness to 
discord among its members, is very discouraging. 
When you are fairly launched upon the sea of experience, the false 
lights that are set up in our periodical literature especially, will often 
deceive and disappoint you. You will be slow to believe that very many 
clinical reports which are thus published, are compounded of one part 
fact and twenty [tarts fiction. How to know the true from the false, 
and how to test the merits of the remedy proposed, and to realize for 
yourselves and your patients all that lias been promised, is the question. 
The chances are, that since so many of these marvelous results are fal- 
lacious and untrue, you will finally become disheartened and skeptical. 
For there are those who set their face as a Hint against all medical 
journals and societies whatever, because so much that they contain and 
produce is so trashy and untrustworthy. The whole yield of this species 
of boasted experience is a fraud upon the profession and the public. 
It is full of the self-saturation of the Quack : it toys with our confi- 
dence, and trifles with human life; it makes a permanent record of the 
professional ignorance and credulity, and will testify against us in the 
years that are to come. 
In the nature of things, there must always be differences of opinion 
and schools of belief among physicians. Each theory of cure is an 
intellectual stair-way by which to gain admission to the different apart- 
ments in the Temple of Medicine. It would be unreasonable to insist 
that either of these apartments, however large and thoroughly furnished, 
could possibly contain everything, whether new or old, that might be 
of use in the practice of the Healing Art 7 
If we spend our time exclusively in building, ornamenting, or in 
climbing one of these stair-ways, we lose what involves a sacrafice of 
human life; for the means of cure are not in the means of access 
merely, but in the resources that wc draw from the great storehouse of 
Medical Fact and Experience, when we have them in hand and know 
how to apply them. 
It is characteristic of the age in which we live that our very Libe- 
rality, like the elevators in our grand hotels, will lift us to a higher 
plane, save our strength, and keep us comfortable and harmonious by the 
way. Our mission is not to wage a warfare against those who hold 
different views, with the hope of exterminating them, but to battle 
against Disease and Death, and carefully to plant and to water the germs 
of Life and Longevity. If you will bear this distinction in mind, you 
will not waste your golden opportunities in wrangling and discord. 
Our fields of labor may be divided and separated, but the fence be- 
tween them need not be so high as to exclude the shower and the sun- 
light. Nor need it bar a brother’s intercourse. It compensates for 
many of the trials of our calling to " compare notes with those who are 
working for tlu* same result, bur in a different way. And when I see 
a doctor who is more anxious to separate himself from his neighbor than 
to uproot bis own prejudices, and to clear the soil of his mind 
for the seed and the sun of intelligence and experience, I put 
him down as one who will be more likely to do harm than good. A 
gentleman traveling on horseback, came upon an Irishman who was 
fencing in a most barren and desolate piece of land. “ What are you 
fencing in that lot for. Fat?' said lie: ” a herd of cattle would starve to 
death on that ground. " “ And sure, ycr honor, wasn’t I fencin’ it in 
to kape the poor bastes out av it. " When we build and repair our sec- 
tarian walls, we should be careful lest they enclose a barren field and a 
worthless piece of property. 
One of the peculiar trials of the physician comes of his not being 
his own master, but the servant of others, and subject to their call at 
anv moment. lie may sit in his office all the day long waiting for a 
message, and without interruption, but in the evening, when he is about 
to participate in a social gathering, or to attend church or the opera, 
he will be sent for and spirited away. It would be all the same if ho 
had the gout or was going to be married; for the doctor must go when 8 
ho is called, or the patient might get well, or worse, it* there was any 
delay. Somebody’s only child, or somebody's only wife, or, what is 
more provoking, somebody’s only husband, is in extremity and must 
bo relieved. And so he is left to chew the cud of a foregone vision, 
and to content himself with the good he may do by going. 
The more popular and experienced he becomes, the more frequent 
are these obtrusions and disappointments. In due time his sign attracts 
too many patients, and his office-bell threatens never to hold its tongue 
again. Sundays and holidays are blotted from the calendar, and those 
whom he serves sometimes forget that the seeds of sleep and of mortality 
are in him. For him there is no sure margin of leisure for social or 
domestic life. If he could command an hour each day, he might cultivate 
his mind in other than medical subjects, and so keep pace with his 
neighbors. If his ears were not stuffed with complainings; if he could 
eat and rest like other mortals, and if he could always be punctual, and 
did not have to plod and pull perpetually, the case would be different. 
But he must tolerate these annoyances, and do his work cheerfully. 
This much is indispensable. 
To be a successful practitioner, skilled in the analysis and cure of 
disease, he must build a special sense for each particular department of 
study. At the same time, he must be careful that these petty trials do 
not put a twist in his perception of right and wrong, and of duty and 
privilege. It is one of the insoluble mysteries of his destiny that he is 
expected to overlook and to overcome so much that is disagreeable and 
vexatious, and from which the common day-laborer is exempt. 
1 need not pause to consider another of the trials to which, as young 
physicians, you will be especially exposed. 1 allude to the propensity 
which some of the good old ladies and nurses will have for prescribing 
for your patients, and for posting you in what Dr. This-or-that would 
have done under similar circumstances. You will need as much grace 
as would carry you through a domestic equinox to answer the questions 
which these people will ask, with all due courtesy, and yet without giv- 
ing them any particular information. 
But, my friends, we are not all martyrs and missionaries. We ;ret 
our pay for what we do and suffer, if we deserve it, The drill and 
discipline of the first few months is compensated when we are watched 
for and welcome at the bed-side. You will revert to this discouraging 9 
period with thankfulness if it has multiplied your points of contact 
with the suffering and your means of cure in after life. Each hour of 
dreary waiting has its correspondence in blessings on those for whom 
it is our privilege to labor. We must pause to take root lest we be 
overthrown. Bud and blossom, and fruit will come in due season. It 
is better that we ripen slowly. The only way to a merited distinction 
is through toil and privation. If you work and wait, your claims are 
as sure of recognition as the sun is to shine. By the time the parson 
is ready to be transplanted, and the lawyer to be promoted to a real- 
estate operator, or to the legislature; before the juvenile dentist has 
cut Bis eye-teeth, and the editor’s scissors have clipped his own wings, 
your name will be a household word, and your resources an absolute 
necessity. 
I commend you, therefore, to the improvement of this space, which 
is allowred by Providence for your more thorough preparation. For 
the habits you form and follow during this interval will be decisive. 
And you must not forget that “self-culture is self-perpetuating.” 
The reward of modesty is to enjoy the confidence of your patrons, 
not as the fruit of clamor and of artifice, of trickery and deceit, but of 
real downright merit. To find yourself beloved by your patients, and 
not forced to inflate your claims, like a life-preserver to keep you afloat, 
will afford you a good measure of genuine satisfaction. The essence 
of quackery lies in that presumption of superior knowledge and skill, 
which breaks over the restraints of propriety and vaunteth itself con- 
tinually. It is just as impossible for one who is blessed with a prop- 
per measure of self-distrust and of self-respect ever to be a charlatan, 
as it is for those in whom these virtues are lacking, ever to be anything 
else. “ Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue, keepeth his soul 
from troubles. 
Your diploma is and will always be a reward of merit. It has been 
earned by diligence and sacrifice. It is a letter of credit, a deed of 
trust, a certificate of stock, a parchment that conveys an interest in a 
royal estate, the badge of legitimacy, the medal of honor, a written, 
permanent and unqualified credential, of which no one can ever rob you. 
Bi accepting it you have taken the oath of fidelity to the best interests 
of the profession and the public, and you promise never to do or sav 
anything that will disgrace either party. For there are wolves in 10 
sheep-skins, and those who take advantage of such an endorsement as 
we have given you, to wound their alma mater and to bring reproach 
upon her sons and daughters. Upon that little roll, with its bit of gay 
ribbon, our names are inscribed in solemn compact against ignorance 
and empiricism. You will carry away the roll, we will retain the rec- 
ord, and both will keep the pledge. 
Dean Herbert showed that a plant does not necessarily grow in the 
situation which is best adapted for it, but where it can best hold its own 
against its hostile neighbors, and sustain itself against unfavorable con- 
ditions generally. The same is true of doctors. Plant them where they 
can grow at all, where the conditions for making a reputation are se- 
cured, and time, and culture, and contact will do the rest. They must 
wait patiently, work diligently and unceasingly, and, as the opportunity 
offers, become acquainted with the people. 
This last condition is very important. Our spheres of labor, of duty, 
and of reciprocal influence, must touch each other, even although they 
sometimes collide. If the rays of light did not impinge upon the retina, 
we could have no perception of beautiful objects. Seal the papilisa of 
the tongue from contact with the savory particles of our food, and taste 
is obsolete. An odor will not be recognized if its invisible atoms do 
not rap at the right door; nor can we hear the voice of a friend, or a 
note of music, until a wave of sound has washed it into our very cars. 
It is just as true of the physician as it is of anything, or anybody 
else, that lie must be known in order to be appreciated. But the method 
whereby he becomes acquainted, and the means which he takes to bring 
himself into notice, will help the people to decide upon his merits. 
Being short-lived, the quack is always in haste to be famous. With 
him the question involved is one of expediency. He is after the loaves 
and the fishes, and how to obtain them before changing his occupation, 
or running off to another field, is what most concerns him. He cares 
nothing for the Code of Ethics, and is innocent of any intention to prac- 
tice the old-fashioned precept of the Golden Rule. He is like one who 
drives a blind horse at a high rate of speed, regardless of consequences. 
The dash attracts attention, the fools are run over and injured, and 
sensible people get out of the way. Unfortunately, however, the 
latter class is apt to be small in numbers. 11 
Speech has been defined as “ the art of putting things.’ Tact, like 
theft, is the art of taking things. It is the art of adaptation to cir- 
cumstances and of accommodation to the contingencies of life. It iin- 
plies skill and adroitness, whether inborn or acquired, in seizing upon 
the right moment and means, and the proper word and act in whatever 
we say or do. It is a species of delicate discernment between right and 
wrong, and between the ways of getting on in the world and of going 
backwards. It shuns obstacles instinctively, sees through a threatening 
shadow, and accomplishes its end silently and without a prodigal waste 
of time and of effort. It personates a living, practical, abiding faith 
in the law of Cause and Effect. By it, whatever is pleasant and grate- 
ful in ourselves and in others, is recognized, as face answereth to face. 
Lt is a special sense which all do not possess, and which only a few can 
acquire. It is that intuitive, intangible something by which we are 
attracted, and by which the world is drawn to us. In a word, tact is 
the measure and index of our physical, mental and moral dexterity, and 
indirectly, of our capacity and usefulness also. 
Without this delicate but powerful lever, no man works at such a 
disadvantage as the doctor. Culture, capacity, talent, and the best 
intentions are often slain upon this altar. If you would succeed, 
in the largest and best sense of the term, you must exercise that tact 
which will bring you to dwell in an atmosphere of human sympathy; 
else, no matter what your attainments, you may live without respect 
and die without regret. 
Ill-health has more compensations than most people imagine. Some 
of these accrue to the sufferer, and some to others. The sick-chamber 
is the nursery in which certain of the best and rarest virtues take root 
and begin to grow, and from whence they are to be transplanted, either 
into human society again, or into that of Paradise. The sweetest traits 
of character blossom in such an atmosphere, and shed their fragrance 
all around. When one of my best patients said to me a few days ago 
that, but for her present illness she might never have read or learned to 
prize the works of a certain author, I was reminded that writers of his- 
tory, fiction, and sentiment are not the only toilers who find their most 
appreciative audiences where you would least expect them. We can 
not estimate the reciprocal ipfluences constantly in operation between 
those who are at work in the world at large, and with a good measure 12 
of health, and those whose infirmities cripple their bodies and keep 
them at home only to increase the force of their character, and their 
unselfish devotion to the best interests of the race. The streams that 
irrigate the soil in which the germs of good intentions and of good 
works also, grow most luxuriantly, have their source in many a little 
rill that first bubbled and flowed in the sick-chamber. 
And, so it is, that a “ fellow feeling,” and a common sympathy and 
experience, builds and supports our hospitals and dispensaries, suggests 
and sustains our churches and charities, whether large or small, and 
sends the doctor along with the preacher to the mission field. It is 
through design, and not by accident, that there is not a parish, nor a 
community, a social, civic, or military organization, a club, or even a 
school, iu which this reflex interest is lacking. 
You will find the sick and the sorrowing wherever you go. Your 
life will be one of toil and privation. All the annoyances that I have 
named, and a thousand more, will worry and vex you. But when a 
fellow mortal appeals to you for relief and you are able and willing to 
give it; when a mother begs you to save her child, and, under God’s 
blessing, you can gratify her ; when you can lift the burthen from the 
shoulders of a brother who has fallen beneath its weight; when you 
stand where you can shield the innocent, and turn away the shafts of 
the destroyer, these little hindrances will vanish, and you will have 
your reward. For the sweetest recompense of the physician is evolved 
from the trust and confidence which are reposed in him. With the 
right motives and a reasonable stock of resource, you can not come into 
such a relation without benefitting others and being blessed in return. 
Ah ! my friends, these experiences will enable you to forego the 
pleasures and the diversions which others seek, and with which they are 
satisfied. They will lift you over the rough places in a toilsome jour- 
ney. In the darkness of night, and through the pitiless storm, they will 
incite you forward. They will draw out and develop your sympathies 
and the best traits of your character. They will bring you under the 
mellowing influences which settle around a home in affliction, and a 
household with its stricken member. YTou will come to those who can 
not unburthen their minds to any other mortal, and through the inef- 13 
fable gift of tact and skill, perhaps without a word from them or to them 
of what is so painful, discharge the cloud that threatens, and lighten 
their sky forevermore. 
When I reflect upon your mission in all the breadth of its influence, 
and consider that you enter upon your career with increased facilities for 
doing good at every turn and perpetually, I am envious of your pros- 
pects, and could wish that our positions might be reversed. With some 
of us the professional meridian is passed; but your sun is in the ascend- 
ant. We look toward the merciful twilight which sooner or later must 
close in upon our labors; but you aspire to a greater degree of useful- 
ness and renown. If you are faithful, sincere, unselfish, and honest 
toward yourselves and toward others, you will learn that, although the 
trials of the Physician are many and peculiar, even in this life they arc 
more than counterbalanced by the precious nature and quality of his 
rewards. 
Goo bless you : Farewell ! ANNUAL REPORT, 
TEMPLE S. 1IOYNE, M. D., REGISTRAR OF THE FACULTY. 
Mr. President : 
In presenting my report for the 14th Collegiate year of the 
Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Chicago, I take pleasure 
in stating that its affairs are in a very prosperous condition. 
The consolidation of the several courses hitherto given during the 
year, into a single term of over five months’ duration, and the division 
of several of the chairs, has been of incalculable advantage to the class. 
Such action of the Trustees and Faculty is in accord with the demands 
of the entire profession, and has secured a more thorough and com- 
prehensive study of all the branches. It has also permitted the greater 
elucidation of all points which were at all obscure, without slighting 
any important subject belonging to the chair—a condition of tilings 
which was not possible under the old regime. In truth, the lengthening 
of the term, and sub-division of many of the chairs, has met the hearty 
approbation of the whole medical profession ; and has proved eminently 
successful. Over seven hundred lectures have been delivered in the 
hearing of the class, during the present session. 
The clinics, medical, surgical and gynaecological, have been unusually 
interesting. Cases have been brought before the class which Averc ex- 
ceedingly difficult of diagnosis, but operations decided the opinions held 
to be correct. Not only have our students been regular in their at- 
tendance at the clinics of Hahnemann Hospital and the College Dis- 
pensary, but many of the advanced class also visited the clinics of the 
County Hospital, securing to themselves a practical familiarity with the 15 
different methods of treatment; thus enabling them to place greater con- 
fidence in the system of cure which they have voluntarily selected. 
Owing to the financial panic which occurred about the time of the 
opening of the session, the class was not quite as large as that of last 
session. Had it not been for this cause, our number would have been 
greatly in excess of last year. The class numbered seventy-six, who 
were attracted here from every portion of the country by the excellent 
reputation of the school. Of this class, twenty-one members have 
complied with the College requirements, and have passed a final and 
very thorough examination in all the branches taught in our curricu- 
lum. These persons are known to the faculty as competent, honest, 
earnest and industrious, and are cheerfully recommended as fit subjects 
for the degree of Doctors of Medicine and Surgery. 
REMARKS PREVIOUS TO CONFERRING THE DEGREES, 
A. E. SMALL, M. D., PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE. 
Candidates for Graduation: 
After listening to the annual report from our honorable 
Registrar, and particularly to that portion which makes honorable men- 
tion of your attainments in medical science, permit me to congratulate 
you upon the event of your having passed a final and plenary examination, 
which justly entitles you to the distinction we are called upon to confer. 
You undoubtedly have accustomed yourselves to hard study, and have 
listened to the instruction of your teachers, in order to creditably acquit 
yourselves as students—but rightly viewed, your studies have only com- 
menced, and will only end with your lives. 
The relation which has existed between you and your teachers is, at 
this hour, brought to a pleasant termination. They will not assume, 16 
hereafter, to instruct you, ex cathedra, but to meet, you on equal terms 
as members of the medical profession. 
To the firesides yon left in quest of knowledge, you will soon return, 
bearing the testimonial of your Alma Mater, which certifies to your 
fitness to assume the responsibilities of the calling yon have chosen, 
and as a parting remark, suffer me to impress you, that the design of 
your education is to prepare you for a life of active usefulness as 
physicians—to be ever ready to minister for the relief of physical suf- 
fering—and to render your services always acceptable, let honor, hon- 
esty and truthfulness preside over your doings. ' 
That All Seeing Eye, which surveys your actions and notes your 
very thoughts and motives, will whisper words of encouragement in 
well doing, while at the same time, ignorance, carelessness, neglect of 
duty, insincerity and dishonesty will be reproached by the same “ still, 
small voice,” with an awful distinctness, to which all the loud curses of 
men would be as nothing. Be careful that no witnesses of this kind 
rise up against you, and you will be able to sit even by the bed of death, 
comforted by the silent whisperings of peace from an approving con- 
science. May this ever be your lot. And now, with flattering hopes 
and heartfelt desires, that your future lives will be an ornament to so- 
ciety and a blessing to your fellow-men, we commend you to the duties 
which are before you, and to the confidence of mankind. LIST OF MATRICULANTS 
For the Session of 1873-74. 
NAME. 
RESIDENCE. 
PRECEPTOR. 
ADAMS, C. H 
.. Illinois 
.Drs. Van Liew & Ricker. 
BAILEY, Mrs. A. E 
..Drs. Small & Burt. 
BAKER, J. E 
Dr. A. O. Longstreet. 
BALLARD, Mrs. L. A. S 
Tennessee 
.Dr. L. S. Stowe. 
°BELT, Mrs. L. D 
.Faculty. 
BOOTH, A. J 
.Dr. Jno. Eddy. 
BRACE, C. C 
.Dr. W. A. Burr. 
°BROOKS, B 
.Dr. R. Pitzer. 
BROOKS, ROBT. W 
..Dr. D. S. Pratt. 
CHURCHILL, W. R 
.Dr. M. C. Thompson. 
°COLGROVE, CHAS. H 
Connecticut... 
..Faculty. 
°COOMBS, L. D 
.Dr. S. J. Martin. 
CORNING, GEO. A 
.Dr. L. W. Carter. 
COWELL, Mrs. ETTIE R. .. 
Illinois 
.Dr. Cowell. 
CURTIS, CHAS. C 
.Faculty. 
DAVIS, J. J 
.Drs. Douglas & Sherman. 
DICKINSON, J. D 
Illinois 
.Dr. E. Parsons. 
DUNCAN, FRANK, 
• Dr. T. C. Duncan. 
EDGINGTON, LEVI I 
.Dr. A. H. Barbour. 
ELLIOT, L. W 
.Practitioner. 
FREED, J. D 
.Dr. G. F. Clark. 
FULTON, FRANK, 
... Illinois 
.Drs. Small & Burt. 
GASSER, f. J 
.Faculty. 
°GATCHELL, E. A 
.Dr. H. P. Gatchell. 
°GATES, J. W., M. D 
.Practitioner. 
GODFREY, E. L 
.Dr. L. M. Godfrey. 
GORHAM, GEO. E 
.Dr. J. L. Corbin. 
GRAESER, B 
.Faculty. 18 
NAME. 
RESIDENCE. PRECEPTOR. 
HALEY, H. A 
. .Faculty. 
HAZELTON, C. N 
..Dr. S. E. Trott. 
°HCPP1NS, H. I 
..Faculty. 
°INCE, E. A 
..Faculty. 
JAMES, Miss I 
.. Faculty. 
KELLOGG, A. C 
.. Practitioner. 
KENYON, W. O 
..Dr. I,. 'Labor. 
LATSON, J. W 
..Dr. J. R. Hvde. 
LEWIS, JOS., Jr 
. .Drs.Leuthstrom&Carlson 
LOOMIS, W. H 
..Faculty. 
LUDWIG, C. H 
..Dr. H. Ludwig. 
MACDONALD, A. P 
Nova Scotia. 
..Dr. J. H. Light. 
MAINE, E. C 
..Practitioner. 
MARTIN, T. W 
..Dr. S. J. Martin. 
MAXON, J. S 
..Dr. J. A. Macdonald. 
MAY, C. E 
..Dr. C. C. Olmstead. 
°MILES, Mrs. ELLA L 
..Dr. A. L. Fisher. 
MOORE, ANDREW 
. .Faculty. 
MILLER, C. T 
..Drs. Bowen & Ingman. 
NIXON, S. E 
..l)r. W. T. Virgin. 
OLIVER, W. A 
..Dr. Geo. Young. 
PARSONS, E. C 
..Dr. B. A. Wilder. 
PARSONS, G. R 
. .Practitioner. 
PETTIT, W. H 
..Dr. Soule. 
PURINGTON, Mrs. L. C.... 
Illinois 
..Faculty. 
RANDALL, GEO. W 
. .Dr. R. B. Johnson. 
REED, M. L 
..Dr. R. H. Pratt. 
REYNOLDS, JNO. W 
..Drs. Small & Burt. 
°RICE, A. A 
..Dr. L. C. Rice. 
ROBERTS, H. W 
..Drs. Patchin Sc Bishop. 
RUE, G. H 
..Dr. J. A. Aikman. 
STRAYER, J. B 
Drs.McC. & W. A. Dunn. 
SCHLOEM1LCH, ALB 
..Dr. F. C. John. 
SEIDLER, WM 
..Faculty. 
°SOMERS, Mrs. M 
..Faculty. 
STANHOPE, C. D 
..C. A. Leuthstrom. 
‘STEARNS, Miss M. S 
..Faculty. 
STORKE, E. F 
..Dr H. B. Dale. 
TITUS, W. H 
..Dr. C. W. Prindle. 19 
NAME. 
RESIDENCE. 
PRECEPTOR. 
TRITELINE, JNO 
.Faculty. 
TUTTLE, A. M 
.Dr. O. A. Goodhue. 
°WAY, Mrs. H. H 
.Faculty. 
•WEGENER, H. F 
Illinois 
Dr. Win. T. Kirk. 
WELLES, A. P 
.Faculty. 
WILLSON, W. H 
Drs. Patchin & Bishop. 
WILSON, W. R 
Dr. B. M. Camphell. 
WINSLOW, R., M. D 
.Practitioner. 
“WRIGHT, CARRIE A 
Illinois 
.Faculty. 
“WRIGHT, L. D 
°Piirtial Course. 
.Faculty. 
Recapitulation bv States : 
Illinois, v 
••••35 
Nebraska, 
Wisconsin, 
Maine, 
Iowa, 
.... 5 
Indiana, 
Michigan, 
.... 4 
Connecticut, 
Pennsylvania, 
.... 3 
Ontario, 
i 
Ohio, 
2 
Nova Scotia, 
i 
Tennessee, 
Total,.... 
76 LIST OF GRADUATES 
For the Session of 187-5-74. 
NAME. 
RESIDENCE. 
TITLE OF THESIS. 
BROOKS, ROB’T. W 
.. .Pennsylvania. 
..Intermittent Fever. 
CHURCHILL, WESLEY R... 
.. Report of a Case. 
CORNING, GEO. A.. 
...Illinois 
. .Chorea. 
CURTIS, CHAS. C 
... Maine 
. .Variola. 
DICKINSON, [ESSE D 
. .Malaria. 
FULTON, FRANK 
...Illinois 
. .Epilepsy. 
GASSER, [OS. } 
.. Hysteria. 
GORHAM, GEO. E 
..Nephritis Vera. 
LATSON, JOEL W 
..Puerperal Convulsions 
and Fever. 
MACDONALD, ALLAN I\... 
..The Functions of the 
Circulation. 
MAY, CLARENCE E 
..Traumatic Orchitis. 
NIXON, SAMUEL E 
. .Morbilli 
PARSONS, GEO. R 
..Oleum Cajuputi. 
PETTIT, WM. H 
..Placenta Previa. 
PURINGTON, Mrs. L. C 
..Moral Pathology. 
ROBERTS, HORACE W 
..Typhoid Fever. 
STANHOPE, CHARLES D... 
.. Digestion. 
STORKE, EUGENE F 
. ..Wisconsin 
..Ovarian Neuralgia. 
TITUS, WILLARD H 
..Proving of Physostigma 
Venenosum. 
TUTTLE, ADELMER M 
. ..Iowa 
..Comparative Mental 
Symptoms. 
WEGENER, HENRY F 
. Some advantages of Horn- 
ceopathic Treatment. 
HONORARY DEGREE: 
Dr. J. L. CORBIN, Athens, Bradford Co., Pennsylvania.