is difficulty the
Department grew so rapidly that within ten years it had an enrolment of
242 matriculates and 43 graduates; more students than were enrolled at
Yale, Harvard, or Virginia, the leading medical schools of that day. The
growth came so rapidly, in fact, that it proved embarrassing and the
Regents experienced great difficulty in finding accommodations for the
students. In 1864 an addition was made to the original Medical Building
which more than doubled its capacity and in 1868 one of the professors'
houses on the north side of the Campus was fitted up as the first
University Hospital. By 1874 Latin and Greek had been dropped from the
requirements for admission; a possible backward step which was more than
counterbalanced three years later by the extension of the annual course
of lectures to nine months. Finally in 1880 an extra year was added to
the course.

The long roster of the Medical Faculty has included many distinguished
names, of which but a few can be mentioned, and none with the detail
their services to their profession and to science deserve. The first
Faculty consisted of the two recruits from the Literary Department, Dr.
Sager, who became Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and
Children, and Dr. Douglas, who assumed the chair of Chemistry, Pharmacy,
and Medical Jurisprudence in the new school; as well as four other
members, Moses Gunn, who was a graduate of Geneva Medical College, 1846,
Professor of Anatomy and Surgery; Samuel Denton, Castleton Medical
College (Vermont), '25, a former Regent, who became Professor of the
Theory and Practice of Medicine and Pathology; J. Adams Allen,
Middlebury, '45, Professor of Therapeutics, Materia Medica, and
Physiology; and R.C. Kedzie, '51_m_, demonstrator of anatomy, who later
was for nearly forty years Professor of Chemistry at the Michigan
Agricultural College.

Dr. Sager, the first Dean of the Department, was one of its most learned
and versatile members; so thoroughly possessed of the scientific spirit
that his abilities were not always appreciated by his students, or, it
must be confessed, by his colleagues. Of his ability as a practitioner
"a few of the older residents of Ann Arbor speak reverently and
lovingly." Dr. Gunn, who had charge of the Anatomical Laboratory, the
first laboratory to be established in the University, deserves, in the
opinion of Dr. Vaughan, the present Dean of the School, to be called the
founder of the Department.