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Bowdoin Medical
College:
This school,
during the fifty-seven years of its existence, has graduated one
thousand one hundred and seventy-four pupils, of whom seventy have
been alumni of Bowdoin College. The last class numbered ninety
members, and the present number of instructors is ten. The following
is a list of the professors and lecturers not already mentioned:- Of
Chemistry, Professors Paul A. Chadbourne, Cyrus F. Brackett, and
Henry Carmichael; of Theory and Practice,
Henry H. Childs,
Daniel Oliver, Professor John De
La Mater,
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BERKSHIRE MEDICAL
COLLEGE. _ „ Faculty.
Berkshire Medical Institution was founded in 1822 and located at
Pittsfield under the charter of Williams College Professors John
P Batchelder MD Professor of Surgery and Physiology John D Wells
MD Professor of General Anatomy and Physiology
Henry
H Childs MD
Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic John Delamatter
MD Professor of Pharmacy Materia Medica and Obstetrics Chester
Dewey AM Professor of Chemistry Botany Mineralogy and Natural
Philosophy Stephen W Williams MD Professor of Medical
Jurisprudence
RESIGNATION OF PROF HH CHILDS At a meeting of the Trustees of the
Berkshire Medical College held last Thursday Hon Henry H Childs the
President of the Institution as well as its founder and father
resigned the Professorship of Obstetrics and the Diseases of Women
and Children which he has held so many years Dr Childs advanced age
rendered it necessary that he should seek some relief although a
hale and hearty old age is bis which we trust will enable him to
hold for years the Presidency of the College which he still retains
In accepting the resignation the Board adopted unanimously the
following resolutions
(The personal edited research
notes of Michael Echols, the source of which may or
may not be completely documented)
