this 'unknown' was, and he has told me that at his request Dr. Stillé, Dr. Ruschenberger, Dr. H. Y. Evans, Mr. Salvador, and others had examined it without identifying it. In the December, 1901, number of the Alumni Register, appeared a photograph of an oil painting by Rembrant Peale of Dr. James Woodhouse still in the possession of the Woodhouse family. On comparing this photographic reproduction with the portrait of the 'unknown,' it is at once apparent who the poor unfortunate is, because they are beyond peradventure of the same man, every little detail being exactly duplicated. I suppose the one owned by the University is a copy of the portrait now owned by Dr. James Woodhouse, Jr. How the name of the Barton portrait, for such I believe it to be, came to be changed to Woodhouse, I cannot imagine, unless it occurred at the time of the fire at the University. Mr. Campbell assures me that in 1888 this portrait was then marked Barton, as he at that time had a photograph taken and reproduced in an account of Barton's life in a book about the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick." Upon motion, the meeting adjourned. CHARLES A. OLIVER, M.D., Secretary-Treasurer of Club. STATED MEETING, DECEMBER 16, 1903. A meeting of the Historical Club of the Department of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania was held at the house of Dr. William Pepper, 1811 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, on the evening of the sixteenth of December, 1903, Dr. William Pepper acting as host and temporary chairman. Present: Drs. Curtin, Jordan, Marshall, Oliver, Pearce, Pepper, Scott, and Stengel, with Drs. A. C. Ashhurst, Charles H. Frazier, H. R. M. Landis, and George W. Norris, as guests. The minutes of the last stated meeting in October, 1903, were read and approved. The committee (Drs. Wadsworth and Marshall) to secure a proper place in the library of the University of Pennsylvania for the keeping and preservation of the archives of the Club reported progress. The Executive Committee (Drs. Oliver, Jordan, and Pearce) reported what it had done in its efforts to secure a proper form of card of invitation, which had been used for the present meeting for the first time. The Editorial Committee (Drs. Dulles and Packard) reported progress. Dr. Arthur Van Harlingen was elected a member of the Club, leaving two vacancies. Dr. J. Alison Scott gave a most interesting account of the Fothergill collection of anatomical plates at the Museum of the Pennsylvania Hospital, exhibiting two of the plates. Dr. Jordan moved, which was duly seconded and carried, that the thanks of the Club be extended to Dr. Scott. Dr. Curtin showed two very interesting books-one entitled "A Sketch of the Physicians of Delaware" by Dr. Stellwagon, the other "A Century of Physicians in Dauphin County" by W.H. Eagle-and read from the former book extracts in reference to Dr. James Tilton, first President of the State Society of Delaware and the first Surgeon-General of the United States Army. Dr. Pepper exhibited a printed book entitled, "The Description and use of the Globes Celestial and Terrestial, etc.," by Theophilus Grew, which was published in Germantown, Penn., by Christopher Sower, in the year 1753. This book belonged to Dr. Philip Syng Physick, who used it while a student in the Academy of Philadelphia in the year 1784, from which Institution he graduated the year following. He also showed the manuscript note-book of Theophilus Grew's lectures in the year 1753 taken by John Yeates, Jr., and Jaspar, his younger brother. He considered these two books, one printed and the other a manuscript, the oldest two local books in the library of the University of Pennsylvania. Under new business, the Secretary read the correspondence that he had had with the various Secretaries of the different Alumni Societies in regard to the co-operation in the publication of the complete catalog of the graduates of the University of Pennsylvania; reporting progress. Upon motion, the meeting adjourned. CHARLES A. OLIVER, M.D., Secretary-Treasurer of Club. HISTORICAL JOURNAL DEVOTED то THE INTERESTS OF MEDICAL LIBRARIES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, HISTORY AND OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ASSOCIATION OF MEDICAL LIBRARIANS BIOGRAPHY EDITED BY ALBERT TRACY HUNTINGTON Subscription: In the United States and Canada, $2.00; In all other countries, $2.50 (10 shillings; 10 marks; 12 francs). Single copies, 75 cents. 'Published Quarterly, Foreign subscriptions received by the New York Medical Book Co., London: 48 Old Bailey, E. C. Leipzig: Querstrasse 16. Paris: 174 Boul. St. Germain. Advertising rates furnished on application. Original papers and communications are solicited and necessary illustrations will be furnished without cost. Address all communications and make all remittances payable to the MEDICAL LIBRARY AND HISTORICAL JOURNAL, 1313 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn-New York, U.S.A. Vol. 2 January, 1904 No. I EDITORIAL. THE TEACHING OF MEDICAL HISTORY. Is the study of medical history a fad, a mark of culture and intellectual refinement only, or is it of sufficient importance to be considered an essential to an average medical education? With a few recent exceptions there is hardly a medical college in the United States which has a course on medical history in its curriculum. It would seem that the teaching of medical history would be as important a factor in medical education as the teaching of American history is in our schools for primary education. What kind of a citizen is he who knows nothing of American history, nothing of the struggles, nothing of the men who have made our country what it is? Lack of knowledge on these subjects may not incapacitate him from making a great commercial success, but his usefulness as a citizen and his value |