A summer session, beginning on the first Friday in April each year, lasts four months and is specifically devoted to clinical instruction, hands-on demonstrations, and daily examinations. The regular winter session begins on the first Monday in November each year, with commencement occurring in early March. A P1 elimination course of lectures, free to all students, will be taught by the professors beginning on the first Monday of October; and at the same time the Anatomical Rooms are opened to students, led by the Professor of Anatomy.
The Practical Anatomy ticket is compulsory for one session and entitles the holder to the privileges of the dissecting rooms for two winters. The Tennessee State Hospital, under the direction of the Faculty, is open to the class, free of charge; and a Clinic is established in connection with the University, in which operations are performed, and cases prescribed and lectured, in the presence of the Class. He must, at the moment of receiving the diploma, recognize the Faculty's right to revoke it, in case he performs irregular or unprofessional practices.
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CATALOGUE OF GRADUATES. 1857
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UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE
AN ADDRESS
As we constitute that committee, we therefore very respectfully and earnestly request a copy of the said Address. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 13th instant, and request, on behalf of the Medical Class, a copy of the Address delivered to them.
ADDRESS
He died of the Asiatic cholera, at Dresden, in the Western District of Tennessee, in April, 1833. He seems to have given special attention during college to Associational exercises, speaking, debating, and writing. In view of his intention to prosecute his studies abroad, the Faculty of Medicine waived the rule requiring three years' study, and admitted him to the Doctorate, at the commencement of the Department of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, held on April 4 , 1845.
It is a special honor and reward for the learned professions, theology, taw and medicine. He was too ambitious, as well as too conscientious, to be willing to stoop to the low level of a mere routiner. Since he loved his profession so much and devoted himself so much to its study, one would naturally expect that he would not lack faithful attention to the needs and wishes of his patients.
He was equally faithful and correct in the discharge of his duty to his brethren of the same profession. In his personal conduct towards his fellow men he was kind, respectful, courteous, and was a favorite with the professionals of the city. Porter gave up, that he should make the city circuit to let his medical knowledge know what a great man he was.
He seems to have regarded this as one of the highest privileges of the profession, and was ever ready to recognize his obligations to work accordingly. They serve in all the hospitals here, and I have seen them so often administer comfort to the sick and dying, that I cannot look upon them with anything but feelings of the highest esteem. A few years have passed: the scene is changed from the banks of the beautiful Seine, with its crowded population, to the shores of the distant but no less beautiful Cumberland.
Porter's public life as a professor of anatomy at the University of Nashville, and as one of the founders of its flourishing medical department. He was unpopular in the ordinary acceptance of the term; for both in the classroom and in the community he was above seeking popularity. I cannot conclude the task assigned to me today without calling your attention to a number of important practical conclusions which are strikingly forced by the history of life and character which we have discussed.
At the time of his death he was arranging his affairs so as to make him independent of the drudgery of his profession, and to give him leisure for 'improving himself as a teacher and for scientific researches.
APPENDIX
Winston, the Speaker appointed a committee to draft resolutions regarding the death of the late Dr. Winston then moved the publication of the proceedings of the meeting to the city papers; and Dr. Morton, the furnishing with the same family of the deceased; both of these motions were approved.
THE Students of the Medical Department of the University of Nashville met for the purpose of expressing their feelings in reference to the death of the lamented R. RESOLVED, That we humbly submit to this dispensation of the Supreme Architect . of the Universe, while we deeply mourn the loss of such an honorable man. RESOLVED, That the proceedings of this meeting be published in the Medical Journal and city papers, and that a copy be sent to the family of the deceased.
Jennings was appointed a committee to draft resolutions expressing the sentiments of the faculty in regard to this sad event; whereupon the chairman of this committee reported the following preamble and resolutions, which were unanimously adopted by the faculty. RESOLVED, that in the many relations which our late colleague maintained to us, he so fared that our affection, respect, and confidence grew stronger and deeper with every year; that he added the agreeableness of a refined gentleman to a swarm deeply imbued with medical knowledge, and was in all things that which the good everywhere delight to revere. RESOLVED, That the Chancellor of the University be requested, at the opening of the next meeting of the Medical Department, to speak publicly on the life and character of our deceased friend and brother.
He then turned his attention to the higher walk of godliness, where the purity of his heart found its pleasing affinities. He died on the first of July, after an illness of two weeks, which he bore with true resignation, and in which he was sustained by that hope which is the only anchor of the soul. 34; A father of the fatherless and a Judge of the widows, is God in his holy dwelling." And the!J will not be forgotten by Him.
The Medical College building now occupies part of the land which was then given to the Academy. 34;THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE” became the legal style and title of the College, by an act of the Legislature, approved November 27, 1826.
VALEDICTORY ADDRESS
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I have invited you to a review of the course you have just passed. Porter, who was one of the founders of this medical school, was also one of its ablest and purest advisers. Censorship of the medical profession for alleged negligence in the initiative training of those who enter its ranks is commonplace.
How clearly the recitation of your course of study refutes any accusation of that kind. However, we do not wish to be misunderstood on this head, either by yourselves or by any section of the intelligent audience to whom we address ourselves. Yet assertions of the same kind are as much, if not more true, when applied to physicians who, at a given period, have been scattered over our country.
You can therefore find no serious obstacle to prevent you from adopting the remedy we suggest, except your own concerns arising from your expense. This view of the subject opens to you a field of reform which requires your most diligent efforts to discharge your duties. Yet, with all its great advantages, great evils grow out of the existing state of things.
29. taught, both by precept and example, that in order to secure the healthy state of the general interests of physicians, so much of them as relates to the mode of medical education must be preserved within the profession itself. . In the public the profession might be relied upon, for the mass of the community, though a minority may be wrong, .. is not inclined to recognize systems of quackery. With this, the control of the institution he founded is placed unreservedly in the hands of the medical association.
The University of Nashville Medical Department is standing by you now, so . as far as your education is concerned, in relation to- . rent. Make them understand the importance attached to it in all other parts of the civilized world. Another prompt which we entrust to you and which touches upon the nature of your answer, relates to the practical nature of the training which you have received with us.
Prove by your perseverance in study, observation, and care of the sick that you are passionate about the cause of suffering humanity which you have espoused.
