Gerard N. Burrow
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300092073
- eISBN:
- 9780300132885
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300092073.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Education
This chapter focuses on the death of Nathan Smith in 1829, which signified a great loss to the young Medical Institution of Yale College. His reputation as a clinician in conjunction with Benjamin ...
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This chapter focuses on the death of Nathan Smith in 1829, which signified a great loss to the young Medical Institution of Yale College. His reputation as a clinician in conjunction with Benjamin Silliman's reputation as a scientist had been responsible for much of the school's initial success. Silliman now replaced Smith as the driving force behind the Medical Institution. From a pragmatic point of view, Smith had represented one-fifth of the medical faculty, holding the chairs in both medicine and surgery. To replace him Eli Ives was appointed professor of the theory and practice of medicine and Thomas Hubbard, a rural practitioner, became professor of surgery. William Tully took over Ives's former professorship of materia medica.Less
This chapter focuses on the death of Nathan Smith in 1829, which signified a great loss to the young Medical Institution of Yale College. His reputation as a clinician in conjunction with Benjamin Silliman's reputation as a scientist had been responsible for much of the school's initial success. Silliman now replaced Smith as the driving force behind the Medical Institution. From a pragmatic point of view, Smith had represented one-fifth of the medical faculty, holding the chairs in both medicine and surgery. To replace him Eli Ives was appointed professor of the theory and practice of medicine and Thomas Hubbard, a rural practitioner, became professor of surgery. William Tully took over Ives's former professorship of materia medica.
Gerard N. Burrow
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300092073
- eISBN:
- 9780300132885
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300092073.003.0013
- Subject:
- Sociology, Education
This chapter describes the relationship between the medical school and the hospital as one of mutual, although frequently strained, interdependence. Access to patients would be crucial to the success ...
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This chapter describes the relationship between the medical school and the hospital as one of mutual, although frequently strained, interdependence. Access to patients would be crucial to the success of the new Medical Institution of Yale College, “because theory without practice in this, as well as everything else, is comparatively of little use.” Of the ten incorporators who proposed the State Hospital in 1826, eight were physicians, including four professors at the Medical Institution: Nathan Smith, Eli Ives, Jonathan Knight, and Thomas Hubbard. The fifth Yale representative, Benjamin Silliman, had received an honorary M.D. degree from the Connecticut Medical Society but was not a physician. The solitary layperson, William Leffingwell, became the first president of the General Hospital Society of Connecticut.Less
This chapter describes the relationship between the medical school and the hospital as one of mutual, although frequently strained, interdependence. Access to patients would be crucial to the success of the new Medical Institution of Yale College, “because theory without practice in this, as well as everything else, is comparatively of little use.” Of the ten incorporators who proposed the State Hospital in 1826, eight were physicians, including four professors at the Medical Institution: Nathan Smith, Eli Ives, Jonathan Knight, and Thomas Hubbard. The fifth Yale representative, Benjamin Silliman, had received an honorary M.D. degree from the Connecticut Medical Society but was not a physician. The solitary layperson, William Leffingwell, became the first president of the General Hospital Society of Connecticut.
