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Figure 1: A Faculty Meeting by W.H. Arthur, Class of 1877, Colonel Medical Corps<\/em><\/p>\n This unique interpretation of a School of Medicine Faculty Meeting was recently discovered among the records of the Health Sciences and Human Services Library.\u00a0 Donated to the library in 1938 by Dr. William H. Marsh, School of Medicine class of 1876, the cartoon represents the faculty of the school of medicine as donkeys standing around a dissection table.\u00a0 The cartoon was drawn by Colonel William H. Arthur, School of Medicine class of 1877, whose name appears in the lower right-hand corner of the cartoon.<\/p>\n The faculty members represented from left to right include:<\/p>\n McLane Tiffany \u2013 Professor of Operative Surgery Colonel William H. Arthur, MD was born in 1856 in Baltimore. As a young man he had a talent for caricature. He graduated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1877. His dissertation on the Examination of Urine<\/a> can be found in the Digital Archive at the HS\/HSL. In 1880, Dr. Arthur passed the Army Medical Board. Throughout his career, he was stationed in New York, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Washington, and Pennsylvania gaining experience in surgery.\u00a0 In 1898 at the start of the Spanish-American War, Dr. Arthur was promoted to Major and given a Cattle Ship, the Missouri,<\/em> to turn into a floating hospital. He was later stationed in China and the Philippines.\u00a0 In 1907 he was assigned command of the General Hospital at Washington Barracks, which would become the Walter Reed General Hospital.\u00a0 In 1911, Dr. Arthur was promoted to Colonel and in 1918 to Brigadier General.\u00a0 On December 2, 1918 he was retired by order of the President. After retirement, General Arthur became the Medical Director of Georgetown University Hospital.\u00a0 He passed away on April 19, 1936.<\/p>\n Sources:<\/p>\n Jones, Harold W. \u201cBrigadier General William H. Arthur (1856-1936),\u201d Army Medical Bulletin<\/em>. No. 68 (July 1943): 218-226. Retrieved from: http:\/\/stimson.contentdm.oclc.org\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/p15290coll6\/id\/836<\/a><\/p>\n Pershing, John J. My Life before the World War, 1860-1917: A Memoir.<\/em> Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2013.<\/p>\n \u201cWilliam Henry Marsh, M.D.,\u201d Bulletin of the School of Medicine, University of Maryland.<\/em> Vol. 26 No. 4 (Jan 1942): 212. Retrieved from: https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/bulletinofuniver2626#page\/212\/mode\/2up\/search\/Marsh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This unique interpretation of a School of Medicine Faculty Meeting was recently discovered among the records of the Health Sciences and Human Services Library.\u00a0 Donated to the library in 1938 by Dr. William H. Marsh, School of Medicine class of 1876, the cartoon represents the faculty of the school of medicine as donkeys standing around a dissection table. Continue reading
\n<\/em>Christopher Johnston \u2013 Professor of Surgery
\n<\/em>Richard McSherry \u2013 Professor of Principles and Practice of Medicine
\n<\/em>William T. Howard \u2013 Professor of Diseases of Women and Children and Clinical Medicine
\n<\/em>Samuel C. Chew \u2013 Dean, Professor of Material Medica and Therapeutics, and Clinical Medicine
\n<\/em>Francis T. Miles \u2013 Professor of Anatomy and Clinical Professor of Diseases of the Nervous System
\n<\/em>Julian J. Chisolm \u2013 Professor of Ophthalmie and Aural Surgery
\n<\/em>George W. Miltenberger \u2013 Professor of Obstetrics
\n<\/em>Frank Donaldson \u2013 Professor of Physiology and Hygiene and Clinical Professor of Diseases of the Throat, Lungs and Heart<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/dinner.jpg\")
Dr. William H. Marsh of Maryland was born in 1851.\u00a0 As a student, he was a clinical assistant for the University Hospital in 1875 and graduated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1876.\u00a0 His dissertation on Hemiplegia<\/a> can be found in the Digital Archive at the HS\/HSL.\u00a0 After graduation he became a Senior Resident Physician at Bay View Hospital in Baltimore before moving to Solomons Island, MD to practice medicine in 1878.\u00a0 In 1890 he was named acting Assisting Surgeon in the United States Public Health Service (Marine Hospital Service) a position he held until his retirement in 1930.\u00a0 He was an active supporter of the University of Maryland Alumni Association until his death in 1941.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/arthur.jpg\")
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