. Tri-State medical journal . dicine in St. Louis, in January, 1842,and the following year was made Professor of Anatomy and Physiology inthe medical department of the University of St. Louis. In 1847 he becameProfessor of Surgery in the same institution, and two years later he waselected Dean of the Faculty, a position which he held nearly twenty years. 546 In the Professional Eye. His repeated visits to Europe made Doctor Pope familiar with the greatmen of England and the Continent; with Civiale, Velpeau, Nelaton, Richet,Longet, Holmes Coot and Paget he was on familiar terms. The city ofPari
. Tri-State medical journal . dicine in St. Louis, in January, 1842,and the following year was made Professor of Anatomy and Physiology inthe medical department of the University of St. Louis. In 1847 he becameProfessor of Surgery in the same institution, and two years later he waselected Dean of the Faculty, a position which he held nearly twenty years. 546 In the Professional Eye. His repeated visits to Europe made Doctor Pope familiar with the greatmen of England and the Continent; with Civiale, Velpeau, Nelaton, Richet,Longet, Holmes Coot and Paget he was on familiar terms. The city ofParis was his paradise, and her surgeons were his saints. For a quarter ofa century Doctor Pope enjoyed a lucrative practice in St. Louis. When in1867 he left St. Louis and located his family in Paris, it was with profoundsorrow that the people of this city read that on the morning of July 3,1870, Professor Charles A. Pope had died by his own hand. Doctor J. , in writing of the great surgeon, said: In personal appearance. DR. CHARLES A. POPE. Professor Pope was graceful and commanding; he was of medium stature,straight as an arrcw, lithe and well-knit frame, capable of any amount ofsuperb professional work. In physiognomic expression he was pleasing,but nothing remarkable except his restless bluish-gray eye. On enteringthe lecture-room his step was quick and his manner hurried, and his naturecold and clean as his scalpel; he indulged in no familiarities, and exactedan observance of the most scrupulous decorum from his class. He always Important Articles for January. 547 had the heads of his subjects noted down in very fine hand, on the smallestpossible bit of paper, the edges being trimmed with the most particularneatness. As a lecturer, his utterances were low, rapid, brief, clear, forci-ble, and full; he had no timf to explain or recapitulate; to comprehendhim required close attention. He was fluent of speech, but made no effortat oratory; few men could say more and say
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