Identifier: foundersweekmemo00phil (find matches)
Title: Founders' week memorial volume : containing an account of the two hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the city of Philadelphia, and histories of its scientific institutions, medical colleges, hospitals, etc.
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Philadelphia (Pa.) Founders' Week Celebration. Executive Committee Henry, Frederick Porteus, 1844-
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Publisher: Philadelphia : pub. by City of Philadelphia
Contributing Library: University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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irurgical College entered upon its presentcareer of progress. William H. Pancoast, A.M., M.D., came fromthe Jefferson Medical College, where he had been Professor of Anat-omy for eleven years. He was a native of Philadelphia, born in1835, and educated in Haverford College, receiving his diploma in1853. He studied medicine under his distinguished father, JosephPancoast, and was graduated from Jefferson Medical College in1856. He spent three years in the hospitals and medical institu-tions of Europe, and, in 1862, returned to Philadelphia and becameDemonstrator of Anatomy in the Jefferson Medical College. In1885, he resigned from Jefferson to accept the chair of Anatomy inthe Medico-Chirurgical College, and at once became one of thegreatest powers in the new development of the school, and soon wasmade president of its Board of Trustees. Dr. Pancoast, says oneof his biographers, was a man of striking personality, of courtlymanner, and was greatly beloved by his students and friends. As a
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< s o ^ 5 *_: - «! s: z - ^ 2 B Medico-Chirurgical College and Hospital 327 lecturer on anatomy he was pre-eminent, and as an operator he wasequally successful. During the Civil War he was surgeon-in-chiefand second in command at one of the military hospitals. He wassurgeon to the Philadelphia Hospital for many years, and wasprominent in nearly all the leading medical societies of Philadel-phia. He was especially active in the county, State, and nationalsocieties, and was vice-president of the American Medical Associa-tion in 1884, and delegate to various international congresses. Dr.Pancoast died in January, 1897, having lived long enough to wit-ness the remarkable development of the school of which he wasso great a promoter. Dr. John V. Shoemaker, before his entrance into the Medico-Chirurgical faculty, lectured for several years on diseases of theskin in the post-graduate course of the Jefferson Medical College,and was elected Professor of Dermatology in 1889, and later, ofMate

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