. History of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York (Medical Department of Columbia College). the founders of the Pathological Society and ofthe Academy of Medicine, and he served as presidingofficer in both institutions. He urged and aided,against many serious obstacles, the removal of theCollege to Twenty-third street; and for twenty yearsafterward he carried upon his own shoulders thegreater part of its financial responsibilities. With arobust and active frame, great mental fortitude, and ahopeful and enterprising disposition, he had the facultyof communicating to ot
. History of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York (Medical Department of Columbia College). the founders of the Pathological Society and ofthe Academy of Medicine, and he served as presidingofficer in both institutions. He urged and aided,against many serious obstacles, the removal of theCollege to Twenty-third street; and for twenty yearsafterward he carried upon his own shoulders thegreater part of its financial responsibilities. With arobust and active frame, great mental fortitude, and ahopeful and enterprising disposition, he had the facultyof communicating to others a portion of his own im-pulsive energy. He was not given to elaborate re-search, nor versed in the minutiae of medical he possessed the ready judgment and intelligentself-reliance of a skilful practitioner; and in cases ofdoubt or difficulty he was a tower of strength to hispatients and his colleagues. In the lecture room THE FACULTY. 143 his language was simple, direct and appropriate; andits meaning was often reinforced by a homely or ex-pressive illustration. His pupils always retained, in. WiLLARD PaRKKR, ,, Professor of Surgery, 1S40-1870. From a portrait in tlie pussession of the College, painted by Huntington in 1871. after- years, a vivid remembrance of his commandingform, his genial manners, and his sound and practicalinstruction. After relinc^uishing his didactic lectures Dr. Parker 144 CHANGES IN accepted the professorship of Clinical Surgery, whichhe held for ten years longer, often taking- a considera-ble part in the work of clinical teaching. In 1872 hewas elected a member of the Board of Trustees, andafterward vice-president of the College ; and to theend of his life he continued to manifest his reg-ard forthe institution and his warm interest in its died in 1884, at the age of eighty-four years. Notwithstanding Dr. Parkers resignation therewas no interruption of the surgical professorship,which for ten years had been partly in c
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