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Title: Historical sketch of the University of Maryland, School of medicine (1807-1890), with an introductory chapter, notices of the schools of law, arts and sciences, and theology, and the department of dentistry, and a general catalogue of medical alumni
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, 1843-1913 University of Maryland. School of medicine
Subjects: Schools, Medical -- history Maryland
Publisher: Baltimore : Press of I. Friedenwald
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ge was divided and manystudents who would have attended the University joined its rival.The competition for students must have exerted an unfavorable effectupon the requirement and fees of each, for while competition is thesoul of trade,its effect upon medical education is only deterioratingand pernicious. The classes at the University fell off greatly, 1 He had been thwarted in a prospect which at one time seemed open to himof a place in the University (see Jamesons synopsis of the Hintze trial andthe accompanying papers, Am, Med. Recorder, Jan. 1829). ^Jamesons Synopsis. It is likely that this was the business that Pro-fessors Potter and DeButts went to Annapolis to transact, of which the formerspeaks in his Sketch (see p. 56). ^ After 1831, two courses of lectures were required of candidates for gradua-tion (public notice of the day). A similar requirement did not prevail atHarvard University until 1S34, when the course was lengthened to thirteenweeks (Med. Examiner, Boston, 1834).
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CHARLES FRICK, M. D.Professor of Maiiria Meiiica. THIRD period! 65 although in the whole history of the institution there were neverconnected with it teachers of more renown than at this period.While the existence, therefore, of two schools did not have theeffect, anticipated by some, of destroying both, it led to the suspen-sion for many years of one, and did, unquestionably, exert a verydeleterious effect upon the welfare of the other. On the 2d of February, 1828, a duel was fought at Bladensburgbetween two of the students of the University, which resulted fatallyto one of the participants. These were Samuel J. Carr, of SouthCarolina, and William Bond Martin, of Maryland, who had roomedtogether and been warm friends, until a trifling difificulty arosebetween them and converted them into deadly enemies. Owing tosome delay in the receipt by Carr of a remittance from his friendsat the South, the expense of purchasing fuel for their room haddevolved upon his friend. The latter, after wa

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