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In the late '60s Johns Hopkins, wealthy Quaker merchant of Baltimore, provided money to establish there a University which would include a hospital and a medical school. Much preliminary preparation was necessary before the medical school could be opened. Finally, in 1883, needing a pathologist to open the school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Patriarch's Party | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

Three other medical men were found for the nuclei around which Johns Hopkins was to grow great. One was a young Canadian, William Osier, destined to become Sir William, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford. Before going to Hopkins he had had ten years teaching' experience at McGill University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Patriarch's Party | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

Dr. Welch has held virtually every position in the Johns Hopkins medical school. Its first dean, he resigned to devote his entire time to the chair of pathology, which he held for 32 years. In 1916 he organized the School of Hygiene and Public Health, one of the first of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Patriarch's Party | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

Johns Hopkins students long ago took a cue from Dr. Osler and nicknamed their school "St. Johns." Their patriarch they nicknamed "Popsy." They love him for defending them at faculty meetings after they have run amuck. They have affectionate stories about him. Example:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Patriarch's Party | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

When old Johns Hopkins men revisit their school, or when callers come from foreign lands, they enter the great limestone Italian Renaissance library through its bronze doors, climb a flight of stairs, see a bronze bust of Dr. Welch on the landing, climb on to the second floor and in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Patriarch's Party | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

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