History of the Medical College of Georgia
Publication Year: 2011
Published by: University of Georgia Press
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Contents
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pp. vii-viii
Preface
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pp. ix-
It has been almost sixty years since William H. Goodrich published his History of the Medical Department of the University of Georgia. I would be belaboring the obvious to say that Dean Goodrich's...
I. FOUNDING AND THE EARLY YEARS
1. Origins
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pp. 3-19
The trustees for establishing the colony of Georgia were, from the start, determined to create a new and unique sort of province in America. In the first boatload of settlers....
2. The Faculty
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pp. 20-30
Coming from Savannah by steamboat in August 1833, Swedish traveler and scholar C. D. Arfwedson commented that of all the towns in the South, "none, with the exception of New...
3. MCG to the Death of Antony
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pp. 31-40
As seen earlier, Joseph Eve spelled out some of the general problems besetting American medical education in the 1830s, including short sessions and courses...
4. Maturity and Sectional Eminence
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pp. 41-60
That the Medical College of Georgia survived the death of Milton Antony and prospered during the next two decades is a tribute to both Antony and the College. The number...
5. The Coming of the Civil War
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pp. 61-74
The fabric that held the nation together, long under stress, began slowly to unravel during the winter of 1849-50. The Mexican War, which looked very successful when gauged...
II. CIVIL WAR THROUGH THE 1920s
6. The Civil War and Its Aftermath
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pp. 77-90
The city of Augusta, a thriving urban center of roughly thirteen thousand people in 1860, was spared the ravages of war such as were visited upon Atlanta and Columbia. The town,...
7. Eugene Foster and the 1890s
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pp. 91-104
The 1890s were a watershed decade in American history. Economically and culturally the United States had changed dramatically since the Civil War. Immigration patterns had altered radically too, with the shift from northern Europe to the southern...
8. The Storm Approaches
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pp. 105-117
The new century seemed to start quietly enough. The pace of life was slow; it was a time when gentlemen "in white linen suits . . . strolled Augusta's shaded boulevards. They walked slowly, their green-lined umbrellas held high against the summer...
9. Flexner and Beyond
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pp. 118-129
Students interested in entering the College's 1908- 1909 academic year might well have read the school's Bulletin and concluded that all was well. No period was "so bright as at present. The Faculty has recently been re-organized and...
10. World War I and the Twenties
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pp. 130-142
August 1915 found Doughty reporting to his faculty that the College had "reached such a stage in its development" that it could now best be run by committees. He recommended...
III. DEPRESSION TO THE 1980s
11. The Early Depression Years
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pp. 145-157
Georgia national average, skidded dramatically after Wall Street's Great Crash. There simply was not enough state money to go around. Following the collapse of the price of cotton and cottonseed after World War
12. Survival
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pp. 158-177
The Augusta political delegation, headed by the energetic and ambitious Roy V. Harris, sometime friend and associate of Governor Eugene Talmadge, went into action to see...
13. The Era of World War II
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pp. 178-191
Change in the personnel and structure of the Medical College of Georgia was everywhere apparent, even before the decade of the 1940s was reached. In 1937 new departments...
14. Edgar Fund and the 1950s
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pp. 192-202
Pathology's Edgar Fund succeeded Kelly as the second president of MCG in July 1953. That fall an official celebration and investiture was held at the old Medical College with Chancellor and Mrs. Harmon Caldwell as special guests. The talk...
15. Toward the Present
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pp. 203-213
When Fund stepped down from the presidency in 1958 his place was taken by the youthful and energetic Harry O'Rear who had been the old president's right-hand man....
16. Only Yesterday
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pp. 214-226
The key to understanding the history of the Medical College of Georgia in the 1970s and early 1980s lies in realizing that the school has been absorbed with consolidating its earlier gains and reestablishing its old identity. MCG has been deeply...
Notes
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pp. 227-264
Bibliographical Note
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pp. 265-276
Index
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pp. 277-290
E-ISBN-13: 9780820342221
E-ISBN-10: 082034222X
Print-ISBN-13: 9780820340418
Print-ISBN-10: 0820340413
Page Count: 322
Illustrations: 41 b&w photos
Publication Year: 2011
