College Class of 1852 | Penn in the 19th Century

Detail of program for declamations presented by Class of 1852 during their junior year Detail of portrait photograph of Henry Vethake, LL.D., Vice-Provost and Professor of MathematicsDetail of portrait photograph of Alfred Langdon Elwyn, Class of 1852Detail of portrait photograph of Benjamin Lee Detail of program for declamations presented by Class of 1852 during their senior year

Penn in the 19th Century
Professors and Lecturers in the Medical Department in 1852

 

Medical Department

The teaching staff consisted of ten professors (two were emeritus), two lecturers and one demonstrator in the subjects of anatomy, chemistry, materia medica, obstetrics, pharmacy, surgery, the theory and practice of medicine, and clinical medicine and clinical surgery. The University Catalogue, 1851-52 provides a description of the requirements for admission and of the curriculum.

Nathaniel Chapman, M.D.
Emeritus Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and of Clinical Medicine

Robert Hare, MD
Emeritus Professor of Chemistry

William Gibson, MD
Professor of Surgery

William E. Horner, MD
Professor of Anatomy

Samuel Jackson, MD
Professor of the Institutes of Medicine

George B. Wood, MD
Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and of Clinical Medicine

Hugh L. Hodge, MD
Professor of Obstetrics and of the Diseases of Women and Children

James B. Rogers, MD
Professor of Chemistry

Joseph Carson, MD
Professor of Materia Medica and of Pharmacy

George W. Norris, MD
Professor of Clinical Surgery

William W. Gerhard, MD
Assistant Lecturer in Demonstrative Medicine

Henry H. Smith, MD
Assistant Lecturer in Demonstrative Surgery

John Neill, MD
Demonstrator of Anatomy

 

 

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