Addresses on the occasion of the presentation of the portrait of George B. Wood, M.D. to the Wistar and Horner Museum : on his retirement from his chair, March 15, 1860 / by J. Campbell Shorb and R. La Roche.

  • Shorb, J. Campbell.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Addresses on the occasion of the presentation of the portrait of George B. Wood, M.D. to the Wistar and Horner Museum : on his retirement from his chair, March 15, 1860 / by J. Campbell Shorb and R. La Roche. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    had uiider his charge—those of the materia medica and of the theory and practice of medicine—we can hold up to the world with feelings of pride the names of a Kush, a Chapman, a Barton, a Dorsey. To have been the successor of such men, and to be admitted by universal consent not to have suffered in the comparison, is cer- tainly indicative of the possession of powers calculated to justify the opinion I have expressed. Indeed, I am in no fear of contradiction when I say that Dr. Wood would have attained a preeminent posi- tion, equal to the one he holds among us, in any school with which he might have been connected, whether in this country—where he has but few equals—or abroad. Men of the same stamp, combining, as he does, all the qualifications necessary to a successful discharge of the difficult and responsible duties of the chair he occupied, are not readily to be found; and it will, I fear, be no easy matter to discover an individual in every respect worthy of being his successor, and likely to fill with such entire success the vacancy created in the faculty by his resignation. The task which devolves on the trustees of making selection of suitable individuals to fill vacancies occurring in the medical faculty is one in the performance of which, as will be admitted by all who have some knowledge of matters connected with the government of medical col- leges, no inconsiderable degree of difficulty is invariably encountered. In the present instance that difficulty cannot fail, from the circumstance of the unusual merits of the professor we are about to lose—the importance of the chair to be