Chapter V: Part 5

Ayres, David J., M. D. 29, 30

Bartlett, Doctor Elisha 57, 120, *132
Biographical sketch of 125
As a poet 129
At Baltimore 126
At Dartmouth 126
At Transylvania 126
At Woodstock Medical School 126
Beautiful character of 127, 128, 129
Born 125
Death of 128
Degree of M. D. 125
Early education of 125
Goes to the Legislature 125
In College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York 127
In Medical School at Louisville 126
Letter of resignation *126
Mayor of Lowell 125
Poisoned by lead 127
Studies in Europe 125

Bartlett, Doctor John *115

Bartlett, Otis 125

Bartlett, Waite 125

Barry, Honorable William T. *35

Bascom, Reverend H. B. *132

Beginning of success of the Medical Department 29

Best, Doctor Robert 40

Best, Doctor Robert, died *40

Biographical sketch of Doctor Samuel Annan 138
Doctor Elisha Bartlett 125
Doctor Samuel Brown 6
Doctor J. M. Bruce 154
Doctor H. M. Bullitt 141
Doctor Joseph Buchanan 14
Doctor J. M. Bush 114
Doctor Charles Caldwell 47
Doctor W. S. Chipley 147
Doctor J. E. Cooke 64
Doctor James C. Cross 105
Doctor B. W. Dudley 15
Doctor E. L. Dudley 132
Doctor Daniel Drake 40
Doctor John Eberle 106
Doctor Leonidas Lawson 130
Doctor S. M. Letcher 146
Doctor A. K. Marshall 155
Doctor T. D. Mitchell 109
Doctor Robert Peter 88
Doctor William H. Richardson 33
Doctor Frederick Ridgely 10
Doctor Charles W. Short 78
Doctor H. M. Skillman 143
Doctor Nathan R. Smith 120
Doctor Lunsford P. Yandell 83

Bishop, Reverend Robert H. *35

Blane, Gilbert 8

Blythe, Reverend James 4, 7, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 35
Acting President of Transylvania University 12
Appointed Professor of Chemistry in Medical Department 12
Died 12
President of Kentucky Academy 4
Resigns 12

Bodley, Thomas *46

Boling, Doctor William M. 141

Boswell, Joseph 38

Botanic Garden Company, stockholders 38

Bowman, Honorable John B. 99, 100, *100

Bradford, John 4, *46

Breckinridge, Lieutenant Ethelbert D. *137

Breckinridge, Reverend John 146

Breckinridge, Ensign J. Cabell *137

Breckinridge, General Joseph C. *137

Breckinridge, Doctor Robert J. *160

Brilliant era for Transylvania Medical School 34

Brittan, Mr., case of 67

Bronston, Honorable C. J. *160

Brown, Honorable John 7

Brown, Reverend John 6

Brown, John Mason *7

Brown, Orlando 9

Brown, Doctor Preston 7

Brown, Doctor Samuel 4, 7, 26, 34, 35, 38, 43, 46, 57, 163
Biographical sketch of 6
Anecdote of 9
Born 6
Died 6
Introduces cow-pox 9
Imports books, etc., for Transylvania 6
Personal appearance 8
Vaccination introduced by 4
Writings of 8

Bruce, Benjamin Gratz *154

Bruce, James M., biographical sketch of 154
Character of 154, 155
Children of 155
Degree of M. D. 155
Demonstrator of Anatomy in Transylvania 154
Education of 154
Parentage of 154
Studies in Europe 154

Bruce, Colonel Saunders D. *154

Bruce, William Wallace *154

Bull, Ole 163

Bullitt, Doctor Henry M. *115
Biographical sketch of 141
As Health Officer 143
As writer 142
Death of 143
Education of 141, 142
Establishes Kentucky School of Medicine 141, 142
Goes to Europe 142
Founds Louisville Medical College 142
In University of Louisville 142
In St. Louis Medical College 142
In Transylvania Medical School 141, 142

Bullock, Mrs. Waller O. *28

Buchanan, Doctor Joseph 13
In politics 14
Sketch of 14
Resigns 14

Burning of first University building 3

Burning of New Medical Hall 55, 161

Burning of Old Medical Hall 44

Bush, Benjamin Dudley 119

Bush, Doctor James M. 17, 63, 90, *91, 92, *115, 163
Biographical sketch of 114
As a teacher 117
Born 114
Character in his profession 116
Children of 119
Death of 119, 120
Degree of A. B. 114
Degree of M. D. 114
In Kentucky School of Medicine 115
Parentage of *114
Married 119
Opinion of Doctor Rogers on 116
Professor of Anatomy 17
Professor Adjunct in Transylvania 115
Removed to Lexington 114
Writings of 117, 118, 119

Bush, Miss Nannie M. *119

Bush, Captain Thomas J. *119

Caldwell, Doctor Charles 7, 31, 34, 35, 38, 40, 43, 46, 57,
64, 81, *82, 83, 84, 86, 87, 102
Biographical sketch of 47
Address on the L. & O. R. R. 60
Address at Lexington Lyceum 60
Antagonizes Doctor Rush 50, 51
At University of Pennsylvania 50
Born 49
Compares Transylvania with Philadelphia school 55
Dean of Faculty 53
Described by Doctor Gross *54
Died 49
Dismissed from Transylvania 62, 53
Early life in Philadelphia 51, 52
Effort to remove school to Louisville 61, 62
Extracts from autobiography of 49, 50, 51, 52, 53
Induces Legislature to give money 43
Mental activity of 51
Parentage of 49
Sets out for Europe 31
Yellow fever in Philadelphia 51

Caldwell, Thomas L. 38

Calomel, experience of Doctor Peter 69, 70
Experiment with, by Doctor Peter 72, 73
Irregular action of 69
Mammoth dose of Doctor Cooke 73
Properties of 68, 69

Calvert, Doctor William Jeptha *123

Causes of the decline of the Medical Department 57, 157

"Captain Neet's Rifle Guards" 58

Centenary of Lexington *3

Centennial Park 3

Ceremonies on laying the first "stone sill" of
L. & O. R. R. 58, 59, 60

Chapman, George T. *46

Chapman, Reverend Doctor 75

Chemical work of Doctor Peter 95, 96

Chew, Doctor Samuel C. 122

Chipley, Amelia Stout 147

Chipley, Doctor William S. 156
Biographical sketch of 147
Advocates Deaf and Dumb Asylum 151
As a lecturer 149
As a specialist 153
As a writer 149
Asylum burnt 152
At College Hill 153
Burning of "Duncannon" 152
Death of 153
Establishes asylum at Anchorage 151
Goes to Columbus, Georgia 148
Goes to Europe 151
Graduates in Transylvania 147, 148
Marries 148
Mayor of Columbus 148, 149
Parentage of 147
Practices among Indians 148
Private asylum at Lexington 153
Professor in Transylvania 149
Purchases "Duncannon" 152
Return to Lexington 149
Takes charge of Lunatic Asylum 149
Takes issue with Doctor Dudley 148
Work for idiots 150, 151
Work for Lunatic Asylum 149, 150

Chipley, Reverend Stephen 147

Cholera of 1833 66, 67, *67, 73

Cholera of 1833, number of deaths *67

Churchill, Armistead 82

Churchill, Jane Henry 82

Churchill, Mary Henry 82

Citizens of Lexington subscribe to Medical Department 42

Clifford, John D. 31

Coit, Reverend Thomas W. *83

Coleman, James B. 58

Coleman, Nicholas D. *35

Combs, General Leslie 58

Completion of Lexington & Ohio Railroad 58

Consolidation of the Transylvania and Kentucky Universities 56

Consolidation of the Transylvania Seminary and Kentucky
Academy 5

Cooke, Doctor John Esten 15, 21, 40, 57
Biographical sketch of 64
As a lecturer 77
Cases from the practice of 66, 67, 68, 71
Character, by Doctor Yandell *78
Characteristic anecdote of 75
"Cooke's pills" 73, 74
Died 64, 65
In cholera of 1833 66, 67
In Louisville 77, 78
In Transylvania Medical School 64
Fame of 64
Logic of 76
Mammoth doses of calomel 73
Method of making antimonial wine *65
Only fear of calomel 70, 71
Removed to Louisville 64
Removal from Virginia 64
Retired on pension 78
Sincerity of opinions 74, 75
Universal theory of disease 76
Use of calomel 65, 66
Writings of 64, 78

Cooper, Doctor Thomas 27

Cow-pox introduced 9

Criticism of Doctor Caldwell by Doctor Yandell 48

Cross, Doctor James Conquest 106, *132
Biographical sketch of 105
Born 105
Character of 106
Dean of the Faculty 105
Dismissed from Transylvania 105
Made medical professor 63
Professor in Transylvania 105
Writings of 105

Daguerre's wonderful discovery 91

Dallam, Major William S. 90

Dallam, Frances Paca 90

Davidge, Professor John B. 122

Davidson, Reverend Robert 157

Decline of the Transylvania Medical Department 157
Causes of 57

Dedication of Morrison College 90

Description of New Medical Hall 162, 163

Description of Old Medical Hall 44

Difficulty of travel in early times 31

Difficulty of procuring anatomical material 61

Director, first, of Transylvania Seminary 3

Donation of Reverend John Todd 2, 3

Donations of physicians of Lexington, etc. 43

Douglass, William, case of 66

Driver, Absolom 163, 164

Drake, Doctor B. P. 156

Drake, Doctor Daniel 7, 15, 32, 38, 107
Biographical sketch of 40
Advice to young practitioners 42
Born 40
Died 42
Founds school in Cincinnati 41
Gross's description of *42, 54
In Louisville Medical Institute 41
In Medical College of Ohio 41
In Philadelphia 41
Professor in Transylvania 41
Resigns 33
Resigns from Transylvania 41
Writings of 41
Yandell's description of 42

Dudley, Ambrose 15

Dudley, Doctor Benjamin W. 7, 11, 13, 27, 29, 30, 32, 35, *35,
38, 46, 53, 54, 57, 82, *82, 91, 102,
114, 115, *115, 117, 118, 119, *132,
*133, 156, 157, 158, 159
Biographical sketch of 15
Appointed Professor of Anatomy and Physiology 13
As citizen 24
As medical practitioner 24
As surgeon 19
As a teacher 18
As a writer 21
Born 15
Character of 18
Contracts poison *26
Death of 18, *26
Duel with Richardson 25
Elected President _pro tem._ of Transylvania University 21
Exemplification of character 24
Influence on Medical Department 158, 159
First papers of 21
Last lectures of 17
Last productions of 23
Liberality of 25
Made Emeritus 17
Memoir of, by Yandell 23
Notice of two operations 20
Operations for lithotomy 19
Papers in _Journal of Medicine_ 22
Preparation of patients 20
Receives degree of M. D. 16
Recollections of school of 1815 27
Removal of Medical Department to Louisville 62
Removes to Lexington 15
Resigns 17
Roller bandage 20
Sensibility of 19
Studies in Europe 15, 16
Treatment for _fungus cerebri_ 22
Use of hot water 21
Withdraws from practice 17

Dudley, Ethelbert L. 17, 21, 23, 96, *115
Biographical sketch of 132
As editor 134
As medical student 132
As practitioner 136
Death of 138
Degree of M. D. 132
Demonstrator of Anatomy 133
Endearing attributes of 136
Energy of 133, 134
In the Civil War 137
Incident of Civil War *137
In Kentucky School of Medicine 134, 135
Raises regiment 137
Resigns from Kentucky School of Medicine 136
Teaches at Marine Hospital 135
Visits Europe 134

Dudley, Scott *137

Dudley, Reverend Thomas P. *26

Dudley, William A. 25

Duncan, General *110

Early advantages of Lexington 30

Eaton, Amos 84

Eaton, A. M., Hezekiah Hulbert 79, *79, 84, 89, *89
Character of 84
Death of 85

Eaton, General William *84

Eberle, Doctor John 109, *110, 113
Biographical sketch of 106
Appearance and character of 108
As practitioner 108
Botanical work of 108
Called to Transylvania 63
Death of 63, 109
Difficulties as author 106, 107
Early education and birth 106
Founds Medical School in Cincinnati, Ohio 107
Professor in Jefferson Medical College 107
Professor in Medical College of Ohio 108
Professor in Transylvania Medical Department 108
Writings of 106, 107, 108

Eclectic Institute 89, *89

Editors of _Transylvania Journal of Medicine_ 21

Effort to remove Medical School to Louisville 61, 62

End of Transylvania Medical Department 157

Epilepsy, cause of 21

Epilepsy, cure by Doctor Dudley 21, 22

Era of depression in Lexington 160, 161

Everett, Edward *46, 168

Faculty, first, of Kentucky School of Medicine *115

Faculty of Transylvania University in 1821 *35

Faculty of Transylvania University under the Methodists,
1842 *132

Fanning, Elizabeth 148

Fanning, Colonel James 148

Ficklin, Joseph 38

Final dispersion of Medical Faculty 157

First acting President of Transylvania Seminary 2

First Faculty of Kentucky School of Medicine *115

First Medical College in the Mississippi Valley 5

First meeting of Trustees of Transylvania University 5

First "Director" of Transylvania Seminary 3

First effort to establish a Medical College 5

First geological survey of Kentucky 94

First Grammar Master of Transylvania Seminary 2

First lecture room of Medical Department 29

First medical graduate 32

First medical lectures 29

First Medical Professors in Transylvania University 6, 26

First newspaper in the West 4

First operation of lithotomy by Doctor Dudley 20

First President of Transylvania Seminary 4

First railroad in United States *158

First Rector of Christ Church 2

First site of Transylvania University *97

First University building burned 3

Fishback, Jacob 13

Fishback, Doctor James 16, 26, 46
Appointed Professor in Medical Department 12
Character of 13
Death of 13
Legislator 13
Trustee in Transylvania *13
Writings of 13

Flint, Doctor Joshua B. *115, 142

Fry, Joshua 82

Garden, botanic 38

Garden, Thomas J. 30

Garrard, Governor 4

Geological survey of Kentucky begun 94

Geological survey resumed 98

Goldsmith, Doctor Alban 114

Government appropriation for rents and destruction of
Transylvania University property *162

Graham, Doctor Christopher C. *17, 20, *27, 28, *133
Adventures as medical student *33
Reminiscences of 28

Gratz, Benjamin 3, 38, 46, 97, *109

Gratz, H. H. 3

Gratz Park 3

Green, Doctor Lewis W. 160

Griswold, Henry A. 79, *89, 93

Gross, Doctor S. D. *42, *54, *81

Guyot, Professor 163

Hall, Reverend Nathan H. 59, *106

Hall, Doctor William *76

Harkness, L. V. *34

Harper, J. 38

Harrison, Professor J. P. 130

Hesperian Society 89

Higgins, Richard 38

Holley, Doctor Horace 3, 34, *35, 38, 46, *46, 53, 97

Holmes, Doctor Oliver Wendell, on Doctor Bartlett 127

Home Guard 96, 97, *97, 137

Hosack, Doctor 7

Humphreys, Charles 38, *46

Hunt's Artillery 58

Hunt, John W. 38, 46

Hunter, John 18

Huntingdon, Doctor, extracts from address of 126

Influence of rival schools on Transylvania Medical
Department 159

Influence of Doctor Dudley on Transylvania Medical
Department 158, 159

Inoculation for smallpox 4
Great hazard in 4

Ill feeling between Doctors Dudley and Richardson 32

Jackson, President 29

James, Miss Charlotte 119

Janitor of Medical Hall 163

Jenkins, John F. *35

Jenner, Doctor 9

Johnson, Honorable Madison C. 97, *97

Joint stock company to build first Medical Hall 43

Journey to Philadelphia, difficulty of 31

Kemp, Reverend J. L. *133

Kentucky Academy 4, 12
Rivalry with Transylvania Seminary 5
United with Transylvania Seminary 5

_Kentucky Gazette_ *4, 11, 19, 20, 26, 30

Kentucky School of Medicine 17, 134, 135

Kentucky School of Medicine as winter school 115

Kentucky School of Medicine, first Faculty of *115

Kentucky University controversy 100

Kentucky University removed to Lexington 99

Kentucky University united with Transylvania University 99, 100

Law College established 6

Lawrence, Mr. Byrem *94

Lawson, Doctor Leonidas, biographical sketch of 130
As practitioner 131
Graduate in Transylvania 130
In Kentucky School of Medicine 131
In University of Louisiana 131
Practice in Cincinnati 130
Professor in Ohio Medical College 130, 131
Professor in Transylvania 130
Writings of 130, 131

Lawson, Miss Louisa 131

Leavy, William 38, *46

Leavy, William A. 38

Letcher, Doctor Samuel M. 156
Biographical sketch of 146
Death of 147
In Civil War 147
Professor in Transylvania Medical Department 146

Letter of Doctor Mitchell to Benjamin Gratz 109, *110

Lexington & Ohio Railroad begun 58

Lexington & Ohio Railroad completed 58

Lexington, early advantages of 30

Lexington endows Transylvania University with $70,000 *56

Lexington, population of 57, 58

_Lexington Reporter_ *43, 59

Light, George C. *46

Loan, city of Lexington to Medical College 43

Location of Botanic Garden *39

Lofty aims of John B. Bowman *100

Lynch, Reverend Thomas H. *133

Mangum, Senator W. P. 129

Marshall, Doctor Alexander K., biographical sketch of 155
Education of 155
Death of 156

Marshall, Honorable Thomas A. *133

"Marshall, Tom" 163

Marshall, Doctor Louis 155

McCalla, John M. 38

McClellan, Doctor George 107, 121, 122

McCoun, Reverend B. H. *133

McCullough, John Lawson 32

McDowell, Doctor Ephraim 7, 155

McIlvaine, B. R. 38

Medical Class of 1815 29

Medical College established 5

Medical Department of Transylvania University, Causes of
decline 57, 157

Medical Department of Transylvania University first
instituted 5

Medical Faculty of Transylvania University intermits
winter session in Lexington 17

Medical Faculty of Transylvania University of 1815 27

Medical Faculty of Transylvania University in 1856-57 156

Medical Hall, New, burned 55, 161

Medical Hall, Old, burned 44

Medical Hall deserted 161

Medical Hall taken for United States Hospital 161

Medical Institute 102

Medical School of Transylvania University as a summer
school 115

Medical School of Transylvania University in 1809 13

Megowan, Joseph *29

Memorial of Doctor Peter to Legislature *94

Mercer, General 75

Merrick, Reverend Wright *133

Metcalfe, Governor 59

Michaux, F. A. 31

Mitchel, Reverend James 2

Mitchell, Doctor Thomas D. 21, 57, 63, 107, *133, 167
Biographical sketch of 109
As a lecturer 114, *114
At Frankford, Pa. 111
Born 110
Called to Transylvania 112
Dean of Faculty 110
Death of 110
Degree of A. M. 111
Degree of M. D. 109
Describes Medical School *63
Early education of 110
Fills two chairs 109, 110
Fortitude of 110
Founds total abstinence society 111
Lazaretto physician *109
Leaves Transylvania 112
Letter to Benjamin Gratz 109
Professor in Jefferson Medical School 113
Professor in Kentucky School of Medicine 112
Professor in Medical College of Ohio 112
Professor in Philadelphia College of Medicine 112
Professor in St. John's Lutheran College 111
Professor in Transylvania Medical Department 109
Resigns from Kentucky School of Medicine 112
Writings of 111
Yellow fever *109

Moore, Reverend James 2
Appointed president of Transylvania University 5
Restored to presidency of Transylvania University 11

Morehead, Charles D. *35

"Morgan's Rifles" *97

Morrison College, dedication of 90
Taken for United States Hospital 161

Morrison, Colonel James 154

New Medical Hall burned 55, 161
Corner-stone laid 162
Dedicated 162
Description of 162, 163
Erected 44
Purchase of lot for *56
Reverts to city *56
Used as United States Hospital 55

Nicholas, Colonel George 6

Norwood, C. J. 98

Old Medical Hall burned 44
Corner-stone laid 44 44
Description of 44

Opposition to Transylvania Medical Department 160

Organization of Medical Faculty in 1809 13
In 1817 32

Origin of Transylvania Seminary 2

Origin of Transylvania University 1

Owen, Doctor David Dale 94, 99, 161
Death of 96
Describes Doctor Peter's laboratory *95
On Doctor Peter's chemical work 95
Owen, Colonel Richard 99

Overton, Doctor James 26, 27, 29, 30, 32
Education of *28
Professor of Materia Medica and Botany 13
Removed from Lexington 28
Sketch of, by Mrs. Bullock *28

Palmer, James W. 38

Parrish, Doctor 111

Patti, Adelina 163

Pattison, Professor Granville Sharpe 122

Patton, Elizabeth 7

Paxton, W. M. *156

Peers, Reverend B. O. *83, 85, 89, *89

Pendleton, Major-General 59

Percy, Thomas G. 6

Permanent location of Transylvania Seminary 3

Peter, Doctor Robert 21, 63, 79, 109, 112, *115, *133, 156
Biographical sketch of 88
Ancestry 88
Analyses in new geological survey 98
Analyses in survey of Arkansas 99
Analyses in survey of Indiana 99
Analyses of Trenton limestone 99
Antagonistic to Doctor Yandell 102, 103
Appearance of 104
As army surgeon 97
As botanist 93
As city councilman 104
As editor 101
As experimental chemist 103, 104
As lecturer 103
As practitioner 90
As teacher 93
As toxicologist 98
As writer 101
Assists Doctor Yandell 89
At Rensselaer School 89, *89
Attacked by Louisville controversialists *102
Born 88
Brings first daguerreotype outfit to Lexington 92
Comes to America 88
Comes to Lexington 89
Character, by a colleague 104
Character of his teachings 92
Cholera of 1833 90
Controversy on the removal of the school to
Louisville 101, 102
Dean of the Faculty 90
Degree of M. D. 90
Death of 104
Discovery of phosphates 99
Donates apparatus *90
Early education 88
Emeritus Professor 101
Examination of calculi 92
Experiments with gun-cotton, etc. 92
Extracts from letters of 91
Herbarium 93
In agriculture and horticulture 101
In Arkansas geological survey 98, 99
Inaugurates the Kentucky Geological Survey 94
In Civil War 96, 97
In the Eclectic Institute 89
In the Kentucky Geological Survey 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99
Lectures at Pittsburg 89
Marries 90
Naturalized 88, 89
Professor in Kentucky University 100
Professor in Kentucky School of Medicine 93
Professor in Transylvania Medical Department 90
Proves the importance of soil analysis 94, 95
Purchases apparatus in Europe 90, 91
Reconciliation with Doctor Yandell 103
Religious views 100, *101
Retires from medical practice 90
Unanimously elected to chair in Morrison College 90
Views on Louisville controversy 102

Petre, Sir William 88

Population of Lexington, fluctuation in 57, 58

Powell, Doctor Llewellyn *115

Preliminary preparation of patients by Doctor Dudley 19, 20

Present prosperity of Lexington 160

Present whereabouts of medical library and apparatus 56

Presbyterian patronage of Transylvania Seminary 2

President of Kentucky Academy 4

Preston family, memoranda of *7

Preston, John 7

Preston, Margaret 7

Priestly, Doctor 4

Primitive daguerreotype apparatus 91, 92

Procter, John R. 97, 98

Purchase of lot for New Medical Hall *56

Qualifications of medical students of 1838 63

Rafinesque, Professor C. S. *35, 38
Biographical sketch of 35
Born 36
Botanic Garden 37
Comes to Lexington 36
His estimation of himself 35
Professor in Transylvania University 36
Writings of 37

Railroads in Kentucky, difficulty in obtaining 158

Railroads, effect on Lexington 61, 62

Railroad, first in the West 158

Ranck, G. W. *29

Rapid increase of classes 46

Remains of the medical library *56

Reid, Doctor, of Edinburgh 113

Reorganization of Medical Faculty in 1815 27
In 1817 27
In 1823 40
In 1837 63

Richardson, Doctor William H. 7, 16, 27, 32, 35, *35,
38, 63, 110, 132
Biographical sketch of 33
Character of 33, 34
Death of 33
Duel with Doctor Dudley 25
Home of 34

Ridgely, Doctor Frederick 15, 26, 82
Biographical sketch 10
As army surgeon 10
Born *10
Character of 10
Death of 11
First lectures 11
First professor in Transylvania Medical Department 6
Made Professor in Transylvania Medical Department 11

Robertson, Honorable George *133, 149

Roche, John P. *35, 38

Rogers, Doctor Coleman 27, 141

Rogers, Doctor Lewis 14, 33, 116
On Doctors Short and Peter 93

Roller bandage, use of by Dudley 20

Rush, Doctor 51, 52, 53, *110

Sayre, David A. 97, *97

Scott, Sir Walter *46

Second geological survey of Kentucky 97

Shaler, Professor N. S. 97

Short, Doctor Charles W. 21, 40, 57, *79, 93
Biographical sketch of 78
As church member 82
As a lecturer 80, 81
As a teacher 93
Born 78
Character of 78, 79
Dean of Faculty 81
Death of 81
Description of, by Doctor Gross *81
Description of, by Professor Miller *80
Early education of 82
Editor of _Transylvania Journal of Medicine_ 81
Emeritus Professor 81
His herbarium 79, 80
Honored by botanists 80
Influence on Kentucky Medical Institute *81
Leaves Transylvania 81
Marries 82
Parentage of 81, 82
President _pro tem._ of Transylvania *82
Professor in Medical Institute 81, *82
Professor in Transylvania 78
Received degree of M. D. 82
Two remarkable cases 80
Writings of 79, 80

Short, John Cleves 82

Short, Peyton 81

Skillman, Doctor Henry M. 156
Biographical sketch of 143
Character of 144, 145
Death of 144
Degree of M. D. 143, 144
Early education 143
In Civil War 145
Marries 146
Offices of trust 145
Professor in Transylvania 144

Skillman, Elizabeth Farrar 143

Skillman, Thomas T. 143
Sketch of 145, 146

Skipwith, Sir William, baronet 82

Slaughter, Gabriel 38

Smallpox, notice of inoculation for 4

Smith, Doctor Alan P. 124

Smith, Doctor Nathan R. 57
Biographical sketch of 120
As a lecturer 124
As a surgeon 124
As a teacher 124
At University of Pennsylvania 121, 122
Born 120
Called to Transylvania 120
Early education 121
Estimation in which he was held 122
Letter of resignation *122, *123
Letter of Transylvania Faculty *123
Mental gifts 123
Professor in Transylvania Medical Department 122, 123
Professor in University of Maryland 122
Professor in University of Vermont 121
Resigned 120
Sketch of his father 120, 121
Writings and inventions 124

Smith, Thomas 38

Staughton, Professor 113

Stockholders of the Botanic Garden 38

Strakosch, Maurice 163

Students in Medical Department, total number of 55

Superior apparatus of Transylvania Medical Department 157

Superiority of library of Transylvania Medical Department *91

Swan, Mr. 168

Symmes, John Cleves 82

Table of students, graduates of Medical Department
(1819-34) *55

"The Botanical Garden" of Transylvania University 38

Theobalds, Doctor Samuel *147

Thomas, Doctor Philip *10

Thornbury, Doctor Philip *115

Titian, anecdote of 47

Todd, Reverend John 3

Todd, Doctor L. B. *136, 155

Total number of students in Medical Department 55

Total number of graduates in Medical Department 55

Toulmin, Mr. Harry, first President of Transylvania
University 4
Opposition to 4

Transylvania the best-endowed medical school in America *122

Transylvania Faculty in 1842 *132

Transylvania Institute *56

Transylvania _Journal of Medicine_, editors of 21

Transylvania _Journal of Medicine_, first appearance of 21

Transylvania Land Company 3

Transylvania Medical Library *91

Transylvania Medical School in 1809 13

Transylvania merged into Kentucky University 99, 100

Transylvania Seminary 2
First "Director" 3
First President 4
Presbyterian patronage of 2
Rivalry with Kentucky Academy 5
United with Kentucky Academy 5

Transylvania University 5
First meeting of Trustees of 5
Medical department established 5
Origin of 1

Tribute of thanks, 1817 30

Trotter, James *46

"Trotter's Warehouse" 29

Trustees of Transylvania University in 1828 *46

Unparalleled growth of Transylvania University Medical
School 167

Vaccination introduced by Doctor Brown 9

Wallace, Thomas 38

Warfield, Charles H. 30

Warfield, Doctor Elisha 13, 38, *46
Resigns 14

Warfield, Doctor Walter 11

Warner, Miss Harriot 47

Watson, Doctor Lotan G. *126
Sketch of 129
Character of 129
Professor in Transylvania Medical Department 129

Welsh, Reverend James 11

Wickliffe, Robert, junior 162

Wilkins, Charles 38, *46

Willett, Jacob 125

Wilson, Mr. Isaac 2

Winter, Elisha I. *46

Wistar, Doctor Caspar 82

Woods, Reverend Alva, D. D. 21
Installed as President 46

Woolley, Honorable A. K. *133

Yandell, Doctor Lunsford P. 21, 23, 47, 48, 53,
57, 63, 64, 66, 77,
89, 90, 158
Biographical sketch of 83
As editor and writer 87
Called to Chemical Chair in Transylvania 83
Character of 83
Character of Doctor Cooke, by *78
Criticises Doctor Caldwell 48
Death of 88
During Civil War 86
Early education 83
Forgives Doctor Caldwell 49
Goes to Memphis 86
Ordained Presbyterian minister 87
President of College Physicians and Surgeons 87
President of Medical Society 87, 88
Professor in Medical Institute 85, 86
Professor in Transylvania 83
Removes to Louisville 85
Succeeds Doctor Caldwell 86
Resigns from Louisville school 86

Yandell, Doctor Wilson 83

Footnotes

[Footnote 1: April 11, 1791. See Records of Transylvania University.]

[Footnote 2: Out lot No. 6.]

[Footnote 3: In honor of the Centenary of Lexington, celebrated April 2, 1879.]

[Footnote 4: An interesting notice of "_Inoculation for Smallpox_," in 1794, is to be found in the files of the old _Kentucky Gazette_, a paper published by John Bradford, in Lexington, August 11, 1787--the first newspaper published west of the Alleghany mountains. This notice appeared in that paper January 4, 1794, as follows: "On Thursday last the inhabitants of this place began the inoculation of smallpox and have agreed to continue until the fifteenth, after which they are determined to cease. They have appointed a committee to draw up a remonstrance to the court of Fayette County requesting that the order of that court granting liberty to the inhabitants of said county to inoculate may be rescinded, so far as respects the town of Lexington, after that date." The _Gazette_ for the first of February following has this significant statement, illustrating the great hazard of this primitive operation, viz: "That the smallpox had been very fatal within the three weeks past in the town and vicinity under inoculation, that at least _one out of fifteen died_ who had been inoculated, and very few children had recovered." Vaccination was introduced here by Professor Samuel Brown, M. D., at quite an early period, as we shall see further on.]

[Footnote 5: Lexington, January 8, 1799. (See Records of Transylvania University, Volume 1.)]

[Footnote 6: December 11, 1799. (See Records of Transylvania University.)]

[Footnote 7: "Memoranda of the Preston Family," by John Mason Brown, Page 20.]

[Footnote 8: See "Memoranda of the Preston Family," Page 37, for his descendants.]

[Footnote 9: Quoted from an introductory lecture to the winter course in the Medical Department of Transylvania University, delivered by the present writer (Doctor Robert Peter) November 5, 1854.]

[Footnote 10: Doctor Ridgely was born on Elkridge, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, May 25, 1757, and studied medicine under Doctor Philip Thomas, of almost unrivaled reputation. (Doctor C. W. Short.)]

[Footnote 11: Doctor James Fishback resigned as Trustee and qualified as Medical Professor November 4, 1805. (See Records.)]

[Footnote 12: Jacob Fishback was a Trustee of Transylvania in 1801 and up to 1807. (See Records.)]

[Footnote 13: See Records of Transylvania University, 1809.]

[Footnote 14: An able biographical sketch of him by his son, Joseph Buchanan, also celebrated, was published in _Collins' History of Kentucky_, first edition.]

[Footnote 15: According to Doctor C. C. Graham he held that these two chairs should be inseparable.]

[Footnote 16: Now the site of the golf links at the termination of North Broadway.]

[Footnote 17: This was before the use of anesthetics in surgery, it must be remembered.]

[Footnote 18: Did he not, in this preliminary preparation of his surgical patients, unwittingly render them safe from the microbes of disease, thus practically securing for them the benefits of more modern scientific discovery?]

[Footnote 19: March 28, 1828, Doctor Dudley was elected President, _pro tem._, in the interval between the unanimous election of Reverend Alva Woods, D. D., February 7, 1828, and his installation October 13, 1828.]

[Footnote 20: "He contracted poison in performing a surgical operation, from which he suffered greatly and never recovered. He died suddenly after about two hours of illness, at a quarter to one on Thursday morning, January 20, 1870, of apoplexy. In his relations of son, husband, father, master and friend it is believed he has left no better man." (Extract from a short obituary by his brother, Reverend Thomas P. Dudley.)]

[Footnote 21: Doctor C. C. Graham says: "What few private students there were in Lexington went from shop to shop (at that day so called) and got three only, Dudley, Richardson, and eccentric Overton to give us a talk." (Letter to Doctor Peter.)]

[Footnote 22: Since dead as more than a centenarian.]

[Footnote 23: His great niece, Mrs. Waller O. Bullock, in speaking of the portrait of Doctor Overton, the only one extant, says: "It was done in Philadelphia just as he was completing his medical course, and I think it must have been soon after that he entered upon his work at Transylvania. He took a post-graduate course at Paris, France, and was considered one of the most brilliant men of his day. He had great command of language and his conversation sparkled with wit and humor, nor was he less happy with his pen. On one occasion the city of Nashville offered a handsome prize for the best essay on some disputed medical point; no one was barred; doctors of all ages entered the lists, and Uncle James--though an old man--bore off the honors. In cultivated elegant society he was at his best, and when distinguished foreigners visited President Jackson at the Hermitage it always devolved on Doctor Overton to do the agreeable, his command of French peculiarly fitting him for this post. He early left Kentucky to make his home in Tennessee, where he practiced his profession for many years, dying at an advanced age."]

[Footnote 24: "When the first medical lectures were delivered in our city a room was rented for the purpose on Main Street. At the time of the reorganization in 1819 a commodious apartment in the upper story of the large building (on Short Street) now occupied (1854) by the Branch Bank of Kentucky, then as a tavern, was temporarily fitted up as a lecture-room, and Doctor Dudley lectured in his own rooms back of his office ... (on Mill Street, east side, a little above Church Street). The rapid increase of the class soon induced Doctor Dudley to enlarge his accommodation by the erection of a very commodious amphitheatre, in which he lectured until 1839-40, when the new hall was built (corner of Broadway and Second)." (Lecture of Doctor Peter to Medical Department, November 6, 1854.)]

[Footnote 25: According to G. W. Ranck's _History of Lexington_.]

[Footnote 26: Doctor C. C. Graham relates, in reference to student life about this time: "Dead bodies at that day were not articles of commerce, so we, the students, had to disinter them; and we once had a battle, so published in the newspapers, at the old Baptist graveyard--the Battle of the Graveyard, so-called--when taking up the Irishman that caused the duel (between Dudley and Richardson). We were taken prisoners by an armed guard and hauled up to the court-house for trial, but there was no law to make the dead private property, so the declaration of Scripture that from dust we came and unto dust we must return let us off by paying one cent damages for taking that much clay or soil. At another time, near Nicholasville, we were pursued when making our way to our horses hitched outside an orchard fence, and one ball of several fired lodged in the subject, on my back." (Letter of Doctor Graham.)]

[Footnote 27: It seems Doctor Drake had obtained an honorary degree for Richardson.]

[Footnote 28: "Caneland," which now forms a beautiful portion of L. V. Harkness' Walnut Hall Stock Farm, where the old house still stands, with Richardson's name on the brass knocker of the front door.]

[Footnote 29: The full Faculty of Transylvania, published 1821, was: President, Reverend Horace Holley, A. M., A. A. S.; Honorable William T. Barry, LL. D., Professor of Law; Charles Caldwell, M. D., Dean, Professor of the Institutes of Medicine and teacher of Materia Medica, with a private class in Medical Jurisprudence; Samuel Brown, M. D., Theory and Practice; Benjamin W. Dudley, M. D., Anatomy and Surgery; William H. Richardson, M. D., Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children; Reverend James Blythe, D. D., Professor of Chemistry; Reverend Robert H. Bishop, A. M., Natural Philosophy, Geography, Chronology, and History, giving with the President instruction in the voluntary theological class; John Roche, A. M., Ancient Languages and secretary of Faculty; John F. Jenkins, A. B., Professor of Mathematics and Librarian; Constantine S. Rafinesque, Professor of Natural History and Botany and teacher of the Modern Languages; Nicholas D. Coleman, A. B., and Charles S. Morehead, A. B., tutors of the Preparatory Department.]

[Footnote 30: For Rafinesque see _Life of Rafinesque_, by R. Ellsworth Call, published by The Filson Club, 1895.]

[Footnote 31: We find the announcement in a local newspaper of November 19, 1819, that the inauguration of the medical professors and Professors Rafinesque and Bradford took place "at the Episcopal Meeting House on yesterday" with music, etc.]

[Footnote 32: "A fine lot of nine and three quarters acres belonging to Mr. Joseph Megowan, at the rate of one hundred dollars in specie per acre, with a small rent of two dollars and fifty cents per acre until paid."]

[Footnote 33: Doctor Best, a graduate of Transylvania Medical Department in 1826, died at Lexington, Kentucky, September, 1830, aged about forty-five years.]

[Footnote 34: Of Doctor Drake, Doctor S. D. Gross says: "Emphatically a self-made man, he possessed genius of a superior order and successfully coped with his colleagues for the highest place in the school (Transylvania). Of all the medical teachers I have ever known he was, all things considered, one of the most able, captivating, and impressive. There was an earnestness, a fiery zeal about him in the lecture-room which encircled him, as it were, with a halo of glory." (Autobiographical sketch of Doctor Short, Page 10.)]

[Footnote 35: Mostly from _Collins' History of Kentucky_, second edition.]

[Footnote 36: _Lexington Reporter_, March 5, 1821: "$17,000 are to be expended in Europe this year for the Medical Department. Doctor Caldwell (the agent) is already on his way. $5,000 only is the gift of the Legislature, while $6,000 rest upon the responsibility of Lexington alone and $6,000 upon that of _six individuals_ in the town who have generously stepped forward in this manner to anticipate the too cautious bounty of the Legislature."]

[Footnote 37: The oration at the laying of the corner-stone was made by William T. Barry. The Trustees of Transylvania at that time were John Bradford, Thomas Bodley, Charles Humphreys, Benjamin Gratz, Elisha Warfield, James Fishback, John W. Hunt, James Trotter, Elisha I. Winter, George T. Chapman, William Leavy, Charles Wilkins, and George C. Light.]

[Footnote 38: The same year, October 13, 1828: "The Board joined in a procession to the Episcopal Church, where the Reverend Alva Woods, D. D., was publicly installed as President of the Transylvania University." One thousand copies of his inaugural address to be printed for the Board.]

[Footnote 39: Edward Everett, in a letter of introduction to Sir Walter Scott presented to Mr. Holley when intending to visit Europe, says of him: "As a philosopher, a scholar, and a gentleman he has left no superior in America."]

[Footnote 40: See Pages 405-7, Autobiography of Doctor Charles Caldwell.]

[Footnote 41: See Autobiography.]

[Footnote 42: He was Dean of the Faculty.]

[Footnote 43: It has been said that Doctor Caldwell was the first person of note to take up the study of Phrenology in this country.]

[Footnote 44: Of Doctor Caldwell, Doctor Gross says: "A more majestic figure on the rostrum could hardly be imagined. Tall and erect in person, with a noble head and a piercing black eye, he was the _beau ideal_ of an elegant, entertaining, and accomplished lecturer. He was eloquent, but too artificial, for he had cultivated elocution too much before the mirror." (Autobiographical sketch of Doctor C. W. Short, Page 10.)]

[Footnote 45: Doctor Caldwell says (1834): "This institution has been in operation _fourteen_ years.... According to its record book its classes and the degrees conferred by it have been as follows:

Years. Number of Number of
Pupils. Degrees.
1819-20 37 7
1820-1 93 13
1821-2 138 37
1822-3 171 51
1823-4 200 47
1824-5 234 57
1825-6 281 65
1826-7 190 53
1827-8 152 53
1828-9 206 40
1829-30 199 81
1830-1 210 52
1831-2 215 74
1832-3 222 69
1833-4 262
----- ---
Total 2,810 699

"It is believed from this view of it that for its vigorous prosperity and the rapid increase of its classes, the Medical School of Transylvania is without a parallel. Certainly in the United States there is nothing comparable to it. At the commencement of the present century, when the Medical School of Philadelphia had been in operation about forty years, it did not number more, we believe, than 200 pupils. It now contains about 400--rumor says a few more. In _thirty-three_ years, then, that school has added about 200 to its classes, while _in less than half that time_ the school of Transylvania has _formed_ a class of 262. This is the highest eulogy the institution can receive." (Doctor Caldwell to Lexington Medical Society, 1834, "On the Impolicy of Multiplying Schools of Medicine.")]

[Footnote 46: At the time of the formation of the "Transylvania Institute" (February 20, 1839), under articles of agreement between the city of Lexington and the Trustees of Transylvania University (see Deed Book No. 17, Page 42, office Fayette County Court), the city endowed the University with seventy thousand dollars; forty-five thousand dollars was to build a new medical hall and provide additional library and apparatus for the same, five thousand dollars for the Law Department, and twenty thousand dollars for Morrison College, securing permanent scholarships in each college. In consequence of a want of harmony in the Board of Trustees as to the location of the proposed medical hall, the medical professors and their friends felt obliged to purchase a lot (corner of Broadway and Second Street, where Doctor Bush's residence was afterward built) at a cost of five thousand dollars, although there was abundant space on the University grounds. This lot, to purchase which citizens contributed three thousand dollars of the five thousand, was given in trust to the University--but, by an unauthorized clause in the deed of conveyance, the lot and the medical hall erected on it at a cost of about thirty-five thousand dollars reverted to the city about 1860. On this building, which was burned during the Civil War, the medical professors also paid out of their own incomes the surplus cost over thirty thousand dollars which had been provided by the city. The medical professors also each contributed annually to the medical library, etc., ten dollars.]

[Footnote 47: There remain of this library five thousand, six hundred and eighty-four volumes; pamphlets and medical journals, seven hundred and fifty-four; bound volumes of theses, one hundred and thirty-eight, at Kentucky University.]

[Footnote 48: In the session following this disintegration of the school Doctor Thomas D. Mitchell says, in his Historical Catalogue of the Medical School, 1838: "Notwithstanding the great pecuniary embarrassments of the country and the peculiar circumstances accompanying the late disorganization, the number of pupils fell short but fifteen of the previous session."]

[Footnote 49: Doctor Mitchell at this time says: "The entire course of lectures in this school costs the sum of _one hundred and five dollars_. In addition the matriculation fee, which entitles the pupil to use of the very extensive library, is _five dollars_. The dissecting ticket is _ten dollars_, and may be taken or omitted at pleasure." The qualifications for candidates for the degree of Doctor of Medicine: "The persons offering must be 21 years of age and must have been engaged in the study of medicine during three years. Two full courses of lectures in a chartered medical school (the last of which in this institution) are also requisite. But persons who exhibit satisfactory proof of having been engaged in reputable practice for the space of four years may be candidates by attending one course of lectures, which must be in this school. Each candidate is required to exhibit all his tickets to the Dean before his name can be enrolled. The fee for graduation is $20." (See Doctor Mitchell's Historical Catalogue, 1838.)]

[Footnote 50: This, with a strange prejudice against novelties, he recommended to be made by putting an indefinite quantity of glass of antimony in a bottle with wine, to digest for an uncertain period, adding more wine as the contents were withdrawn for use.]

[Footnote 51: "From June 1 to August 1, 502 died." (_Collins' History of Kentucky._)]

[Footnote 52: The late William Hall, M. D., for a long time editor of _Hall's Journal of Health_, of New York.]

[Footnote 53: Memoir, Page 21.]

[Footnote 54: Doctor L. P. Yandell, senior, says of Doctor Cooke in his biography: "Dr. Cooke was one of the few men who might have been safely trusted to write his autobiography. He would have reviewed his career with a truthfulness, a modesty, a candor that would have exalted his character in the eyes of men. His works will be read by the curious for a long time to come, and will always be read with advantage by the earnest student."]

[Footnote 55: _Notices of Western Botany and Conchology_, by Doctor C. W. Short and H. H. Eaton, A. M., published in _Transylvania Journal of Medicine_, 1831.]

[Footnote 56: Professor Henry Miller, of Louisville, says of Doctor Short: "As a lecturer Dr. Short's style was chaste, concise, and classical, and his manner always grave and dignified. His lectures were always carefully and fully written and read in the lecture room with a good voice and correct emphasis. He never made the least attempt at display nor set a clap-trap in all his life."]

[Footnote 57: Doctor Gross says: "In stature Dr. Short was of medium height, well proportioned, with light hair and complexion, blue eyes, and an ample forehead. His features when lighted up by a smile were radiant with goodness and beneficence. In manner he was graceful, calm, and dignified; so much so that one coming into his presence for the first time might have supposed him to be haughty and ascetic; such, however, was not the case."]

[Footnote 58: Doctor David W. Yandell thus writes of Doctor Short as connected with the Medical Institute of Louisville: "Dr. Short was a most valuable officer. His high scientific attainment, the soundness of his judgment, high dignity and urbanity of manner, his amiable temper and blameless life added character and weight to the institution. Botany was his favorite pursuit. He found the flora of this region (Louisville) virgin and unknown, and so collected, arranged, and classified it that his successors in this field have been able to change nothing and to add but little to his work."]

[Footnote 59: We see in the records of the Trustees of Transylvania University that on March 17, 1832, Doctor Short was elected President _pro tem._ of Transylvania University "during the pleasure of the Board," but there is no mention of his acceptance. The fact is, Professors Short, Caldwell, and Dudley acted alternately as President _pro tem._ on public occasions and in signing diplomas, etc., until a President could be elected. The Reverend B. O. Peers was inaugurated President _pro tem._, 1833, and the Reverend Thomas W. Coit, an eminent Episcopalian divine from New England, was installed as President in 1835.]

[Footnote 60: The resignation of his predecessor, Doctor Blythe, took place March 16, 1831. (See Records of Transylvania University.)]

[Footnote 61: One of his ancestors was General William Eaton, the hero of Derne.]

[Footnote 62: In the chemical course of lectures the subject of Electricity was given up to him entirely. He lectured on it as well as performed the experiments.]

[Footnote 63: In the catalogue of the Rensselaer School, 1828, appears in the list of undergraduates, "Robert Peter, Pittsburg, Pa., Lecturer on the Experimental and Demonstrative Sciences, Druggist."]

[Footnote 64: This "Eclectic Institute" occupied the "colonial" residence on Second Street, now forming a part of the Hagerman Female College. Mr. Peers, H. A. Griswold, and H. H. Eaton were already associated.]

[Footnote 65: Doctor Mitchell says (1838): "Dr. Peter added to the Chemical Department several powerful galvanic batteries and a fine collection of apparatus recently procured from the East, making the laboratory more complete than it ever has been before." (Historical Catalogue, 1838.)]

[Footnote 66: Of the books, apparatus, etc., purchased in Europe by Doctor Peter we find the following account rendered on March 25, 1839: "Books and plates, six thousand dollars; chemical apparatus, two thousand five hundred dollars; preparations for anatomy and surgery, one thousand five hundred dollars; models for obstetrics, five hundred dollars; specimens for materia medica and therapeutics and drawing, five hundred dollars. A total of eleven thousand dollars."]

[Footnote 67: "A very large addition was made to library, museum, and apparatus by extensive purchases in Europe (selected by Dr. Bush and myself), bringing the former collection up to 8,000 volumes and making the latter equal, if not superior, to any in the United States." (Introductory lecture of Doctor Peter to Medical Department, 1854.)]

[Footnote 68: See _Western Lancet_, Volume V, 1846.]

[Footnote 69: See _Transylvania Journal of Medicine_, Volumes VI and VII.]

[Footnote 70: The memorial was written entirely by Doctor Peter, the map was mostly copied from one published about that time by a Mr. Byrem Lawrence, who traveled and lectured on Geology in Kentucky and who subsequently went to Arkansas and made observations on its Geology, etc., and, as the writer believes, died there.]

[Footnote 71: See _Kentucky Geological Survey_, Volume I, N. S., Page 143.]

[Footnote 72: See Volume I, N. S., Page 143.]

[Footnote 73: Doctor Owen says: "The principal operating room in which Dr. P. made his analyses is 15 feet square, the working and balance tables stand within three feet of each other, and the furnace, sand, and water baths three feet from the former, so that one or two steps suffice to reach all important parts of the different operations in their various stages of progression. The reagents constantly in use ... in a case resting on the working table within arm's reach of the operator, and his recording desk in a drawer of the same table." This laboratory was in the north-west corner of the Medical Hall, corner of Broadway and Second Street. Doctor Owen, zealous to defend Doctor Peter, explains further that the latter was aided by a more than common physical as well as mental aptitude. Doctor Peter took no part in this defense save to extend to the skeptics an invitation to visit his laboratory and examine his manner of working.]

[Footnote 74: I must acknowledge that the expression "shoulder to shoulder" is a mere figure of speech as regards "Uncle Davy" Sayre, for he usually attended the drills in a buggy in subservience to his gout, being thereby rendered immune from the consequences suffered by his dignified compatriots of sundry knots tied, by youthful humorists, in the long grass of the classic "little college lot," the favorite drill ground of the Home Guard, as it had been of Morgan's Rifles and other military companies. This "college lot" was none other than the original "out lot No. 6," the first seat of Transylvania, and was the identical spot whereon had taught the immortal Holley. Madison C. Johnson was "conspicuous" for his sky-blue blouse of fine material, which stood forth in the ranks of common dark blue cotton, and must have been a mark for the enemy had the celebrated battle for the arms hereinafter mentioned ever taken place.]

[Footnote 75: See _Kentucky Geological Survey_, Volume IV, N. S., Pages 18, 65, and 66; also Volume III, N. S., Page 391.]

[Footnote 76: Mr. Bowman says, in a letter to Doctor Peter, April 20, 1876: "If my life is spared I will work on until by national and State aid, if not denominational, I will lay broad and deep the _foundations_ of a great, free, liberal, unsectarian university for all classes and professions of this people and abreast with the advanced curriculum of the best institutions of our century."]

[Footnote 77: In the heat of contest Doctor Peter's adversaries did not hesitate to call him an infidel and an atheist. It was the worst they could say, but not strictly in conformity with the facts. He was not a church member. He had been baptized in the Church of England, always kept a pew in the Episcopal Church, and as a young man taught in the Episcopal Sunday-school. The spectacle, in so many instances, of the impediment to educational progress by narrowness and bigotry in churches had given him an indifference--not disguised--to _sectarian_ religion. He never molested the religious tenets of others. He constantly declared that education should be free to _all_ men, irrespective of creed.]

[Footnote 78: Antagonists in this controversy, powerless to assail him as a scientist and teacher, characterized him as a person of low origin and brutal manners. He ignored this attack, it being his custom never to lean upon ancestors--to look forward rather than back, holding to the homely but truly American saying that "every tub must stand on its own bottom." But in truth he was of excellent English family and a descendant of that powerful "Arundel" who in the days of the Conquest was master of twenty-eight lordships. His manners passed muster among old-fashioned Kentucky gentlemen.]

[Footnote 79: Doctor Cross was appointed to a chair in the Transylvania Medical Faculty by the influence of Reverend Nathan H. Hall, a trustee, and against the judgment of other members of the Board.]

[Footnote 80: From the _Transylvania Journal of Medicine_, Volume XI, 1838.]

[Footnote 81: Letter of Doctor Mitchell to Benjamin Gratz, February 7, 1838: " ... I graduated in 1812. In 1813 was appointed by the Governor of Pa. to the office of Lazaretto Physician of the Port of Phila, which post I held until 1816, when indisposition compelled me to resign. I then had opportunity of becoming acquainted with the Southern fevers, particularly the yellow fever of N. Orleans and the West Indies. For 17 years after I was actively engaged in practice, and may refer to Eberle's _Therapeutics_ for his opinion of me as a medical man, at a time when I was not personally acquainted with him. The journals of those times contain many medical papers furnished by me, as examination will show. In 1831 my name was before the Trustees of Jefferson Medical College for the chair of Materia Medica vacated by the resignation of Dr. Eberle, and I would have been appointed, as I have since been informed by Gen. Duncan, one of the Trustees, if I had not agreed to join with Dr. Eberle a new faculty at Cincinnati. If any object that a Prof'r of Chemistry can not make a good Prof'r of Theory and Practice, I have only to refer to the case of the celebrated Dr. Rush, who passed directly from Chemistry to Theory and Practice, as the published records of the University of Penna. will show."]

[Footnote 82: He was sole editor of this journal in the latter years of its existence.]

[Footnote 83: Doctor Mitchell was an exceedingly rapid speaker. With difficulty could those unused to this peculiarity follow his swift flow of language and ideas. But once accustomed, his pupils liked this better than the more deliberate speech of other professors. He never failed to impress upon students the importance of a not too hasty diagnosis, the _premonitory_ symptoms of widely differing diseases being nearly identical; whereas treatment proper for one disease might result fatally if applied to another.]

[Footnote 84: Doctor Bush's mother was Miss Palmer, sister of the wife of Governor Adair. His grandparents, Philip and Mary Bush, came to America from Germany and settled at Winchester, Virginia, 1750.]