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It aids digestion, and is promptly assimilated. It sustains and stimulates the heart. It renders cardiac stimulants unnecessary. THE BOVININE CO., 75 West Houston St., New York. LEEMING, MILES & CO., Sole Agents for the Dominion of Canada. LLLLLLLOL ...AND... WESTERN MEDICAL AND SURGICAL GAZETTE A Scientific Medical Journal, Published in the Interest of the Profession of Colorado and Adjoining States-A Journal of Science, of News and of Medical Lore. VOL. VIII. Denver, COLORADO, MARCH, 1902. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. A Sketch of the Workers in Physiology in Colorado.* By C. B. VAN ZANT, M. D., DENVER, COLO. While rightly styled the "romance" of medicine, physiology has been accorded, from the very beginning of medical education in Colorado, a place in our schools commensurate with its great and fundamental importance. Some of Colorado's best educators, for periods longer or shorter, have devoted their time and thought to this interesting field of work. It is true they were at first handicapped by meager facilities, poor laboratories and defective means of illustration; but as the years have gone on, the work has taken a broader scope and been pressed home by better methods and more practical equipment. More time is being given to vivisections and to laboratory work. Money is being freely spent on these workshops of physiological science; and while much remains to be accomplished, as judged by the standard of No. 3 large eastern institutions, still much progress is to be recorded in all of our medical schools in this department of study. Taking up the medical schools of Colorado, one by one, we find that the Denver University Medical Department (now the Denver College of Medicine), from its inception in 1881 on through the session of 1883-1884, had as its first professor of physiology, Dr. J. H. Kimball, now of Greenwood, Mass. From that time to the session of 1889-1890, inclusive, the chair was acceptably filled by Prof. E. J. A. Rogers of this city. Since that date, it has been occupied by its present able incumbent, Prof. Henry Sewall, who came to Denver with more than a national reputation in this, his chosen. field, a reputation which has been amply sustained during a residence of *Contributed to the Report of the Committee on History of Medicine, presented to the Colorado State Medical Society, June 18-20, 1901. many years in our midst. The most notable production of Prof. Sewall's pen, since his coming to Colorado, is his elaborate contribution on the special senses in the American Text-Book of Physiology. In this article he has brought laurels to his own brow as well as honor to his adopted state. Dr. J. H. Kimball was born in 1844; received a high school education and graduated in medicine at the Harvard Medical School in 1867; was vice was vice president of the Florida State Medical Association in 1879; came to Denver in 1880; was made secretary of the faculty and professor of neurology about 1882 in the University of Denver. Between 1884 and 1887, held the following positions at the State University: Professor of of physiology, of materia medica and therapeutics, and of principles and practice of medicine. He was also president of the Denver Medical Association and surgeon of the First Colorado regiment in the early eighties. For the past five years he has resided and practiced in Greenwood, Mass. Edmund J. A. Rogers, M. D., succeeded Dr. Kimball in the chair of physiology in the Denver Medical College in 1884. Dr. Rogers was born in Grafton, Ontario, Canada, in 1852. He was educated as a surveyor and civil engi neer, and as such, was in Colorado in 1874. 1875 and 1876. During that During that time he assisted in laying out additions which are now part of the city of Denver. He also at that time became interested in wool growing in Colorado and New Mexico. In 1877 he passed the Ontario medical matriculation and entered McGill University as a medical student. During the greater part of his four year's residence in Montreal he acted as the assistant of Dr. Osler, who was then professor of the Institute of Medicine (physiology and pathology) in that university. During the last two years he was also the assistant, both in hospital and private work, of the late Dr. Fenwick, the professor of surgery. After graduating at McGill in 1881, Dr. Rogers went to Edinburgh, where he passed the examination of the Royal College of Physicians and of the Royal College of Surgeons, and registered as a practitioner there. He began practicing medicine in Denver in the winter of 1881 and 1882. In 1883 he entered into partnership with Dr. Bancroft, and assisted in the organization of the medical department of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway. From 1885 to 1890 he was associated with Dr. Blickensderfer in practice. During the first year of his residence in Denver Dr. Rogers was appointed on the staff of St. Luke's Hospital, and his association with this hospital has been constant since that time, he having been president of the staff since 1891. For three years previous to the organization of the staff of the Arapahoe County Hospital, Dr. Rogers gave regular clinical instruction there to all medical students, these being the only regular hospital clinics in Denver at that time. Before the organization of the staff in 1890 he was appointed surgeon and served annually in that department until the present year, having been dropped for political reasons in Hopkins in 1879; then pursued re1900. On the opening of St. Anthony's Hospital Dr. Rogers was appointed chairman of the staff by the hospital authorities, but only served for one year. Upon the resignation of Dr. Davis from the chair of surgery in the Denver College of Medicine in 1891, Dr. Rogers was appointed his successor, and still holds that position. In physiology Dr. Rogers' instruction was almost entirely didactic, and during the latter years of his tenure of the chair he was assisted in the lectures and recitations by Dr. Lyman. Upon the arrival of Dr. Sewall in Denver the chair was gladly relinquished to him, as being the one qualified in that work. Dr. Rogers was president of the Arapahoe County Medical Society in 1887, and of the Colorado State Medical Society in 1893. He was appointed by Governors Routt, Waite and Adams on the Colorado State Board of Health, from which he voluntarily resigned in 1899. He is a member of the American Medical Association, British Medical Association, American Climatological Association, and of various local societies. Prof. Henry Sewall was born May 25, 1855, in Winchester, Vt. Most of his boyhood was spent in Baltimore, Md.; graduated with B. S. from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., in 1876; assistant in biology, Johns Hopkins University, 1876-1878; fellow in biology, Johns Hopkins, 18781879; took degree of Ph. D. at Johns search work in the laboratories of Foster in Cambridge, of Ludwig in Leipzig, and of Kuhne in Heidelberg, during 1879 and 1880; associate in biology, John Hopkins, 1880-1881; made professor of physiology in the University of Michigan in 1888; graduated from University of Denver Medical Department in 1889; was appointed professor of physiology in the Medical Department of University of Denver in 1890, which chair he still fills; was secretary of the Colorado State Board of Health from 1893 to 1899. Dr. Sewall is at present a member of the American Physiological Society, Association of the American Physicians, Colorado State Medical Association and the Denver and Arapahoe County Society. When the Medical Department of the State University was organized in 1883, the chair of physiology was entrusted to Prof. J. H. Kimball of Denver, who held the same position in the Denver University School. He was succeeded in 1885 by Prof. Luther M. Giffin of Boulder, who filled the position with much credit till 1897, when he relinquished it for other medical work. From that date the chair has been occupied by the present teacher, Prof. E. B. Queal of Boulder. Of these workers, the following brief sketches are appended. Prof. L. M. Giffin was born in Heuvelton, N. Y., October 30, 1850; attended the district school and later the academic department of the Black River Academy of Ludlow, Vt.; took his first course of medical lectures at the |