History of medical practice in Illinois - Bushnell Historical Society

460 History of Medical Practice in IllinoisLaboratory and 75 current medical journals. In the same year, it seems,the library of the late Charles Warrington Earle, containing nearly 500volumes, was purchased, and Dr. Henry M. Lyman, Professor of Medicineand the Dean of the College at that time, donated more than 400 volumesfrom his private library. There were other liberal donors, but Dr. Hektoen,the moving force at the start of the Rush Medical Library, was for a longtime thereafter the most active member of the Library Committee. Togetherwith the cooperation of its librarian, Miss MacAuliffe, 10 the progress anddevelopment of the library were guided.3. Northwestern University Medical School and the Woman's MedicalCollege.—As to the origin of the library of the Chicago Medical School(laterto become Northwestern University Medical School), the informationgleaned from the minutes of the faculty and the college catalogues isscanty during its earlier period. In i860, the year following the opening ofthe school as the medical department of Lind University, the faculty passeda resolution "that Drs. Andrews and Hollister be a committee to the libraryto appoint a librarian to enforce the rules." n Within a year the libraryhad about 700 volumes, and in the seventh annual announcement (1865-66) it is noted that there was "a library of nearly 1000 volumes. Duringthe present year still further additions have been made to the Museumand the Library, and a Reading Room has been opened in connectionwith the latter, containing all the principal Medical Periodicals of theUnited States and some from Europe." However, in 1870, the faculty votedthat those who had "deposited or donated books to the library" be allowedtwo weeks to withdraw the ones they wanted and that the rest should go tothe library of the Chicago Medical Society.A revival of interest in a library did not come until about ten years later.In 1883 the motion was made before the Alumni Association "to use moneycollected for the establishment of a physiological laboratory and for alibrary." Evidently the motion was carried for a library committee wasappointed. The following year the library had 145 bound and 100 unbounditems. During successive years little activity isrecorded, and facilities didnot soon improve. During the academic session of 1889-90, the library wasmoved "from ground floor to basement, from basement to attic and atlast .... domiciled in a former prosector's room adjoining the upper lectureroom." These accommodations were so cramped that, at the recommendationof the Committee, unbound material was turned over to the NewberryLibrary. The college library continued to lead a roving existence and in10Miss Catherine MacAuliffe died in 1939 after forty years of service.u Carr, Elizabeth F.: The Archibald Church Library of Northwestern UniversityMedical School. Quart. Bull. Northw. Univ. Med. Sch., Chicago, Vol. 23, No. 2, p. 241,1949-