History of medical practice in Illinois - Bushnell Historical Society

841History of Medical Practice in Illinois(Davis) of the College—and perhaps extended to others also—as to the policyand course of instruction in the institution. There were besides "diverse incompatibilities"that were personal. Both were men of strong characteristicsand fixed notions and beliefs. Dr. Davis and his party were in favor, amongother things, of a graded course of instruction, to which Dr. Brainard andothers were opposed. Dr. Davis resigned from Rush, as did Drs. Byford,Johnson and Hollister. This group founded at once a rival institutionknown as Lind University and later as the Chicago Medical College, andthe seceding members took with them the clinical service of Mercy Hospital.To fill the vacant chairs at Rush the following appointments were made:Dr. Jonathan A. Allen—MedicineDr. DeLaskie Miller—ObstetricsDr. A. S. Hudson, PhysiologyDr. Ephraim Ingals—Materia Medica and Medical JurisprudenceDr. R. L. Rea—AnatomyDr. J.W. Freer—Surgical and Microscopic AnatomyIn the announcement of 1859-60, reference to Mercy Hospital wasomitted and the City Hospital, with a capacity of 200 beds, was given asthe hospital clinical field of instruction.The regular fees were raised this year to $40. In the requirements forgraduation the hospital ticket was omitted and "clinical instruction duringat least one college term" was recmired instead.It was during this summer (i860) that a system of spring and summerinstruction was started at Rush Medical College, given to a large extent andoften exclusively by teachers not engaged in the regular winter course andhaving no official part in the government of the college. This continued inone form or another almost without interruption until the regular coursewas extended to eight months in 1893.In 1861, Drs. Hudson and Herrick ceased their connection with theCollege and Dr. Freer's title was changed to Professor of Physiology andSurgical Pathology. A preliminary course of lectures of two weeks wasinstituted in which Dr. Brainard taught Military Surgery (a most necessarysubject at that time); Dr. Blaney taught Toxicology; Dr. Allen, Medicine;Dr. Ingals, Medical Jurisprudence; Dr. Rea, Comparative Anatomy of theDigestive Organs, and Dr. Powell, Surgical Anatomy of Important Regions.During the following two or three years, owing to the Civil War and thegeneral unsettled state of the country, the college work naturally experiencedsome vicissitudes. The preliminary term was omitted in the fall of1862. The City Hospital was soon taken over by the government for amilitary eye and ear hospital in which service it was continued until theclose of the war, when it became the County Hospital.In 1863, Dr. Blaney was a Medical Director in the army and Dr. E. C.