help the
student." He was the first member of the Medical Faculty to apply for
leave of absence that he might study abroad. That was in 1858.

[Illustration: THE ENGINEERING BUILDING]

[Illustration: THE MEDICAL BUILDING]

Other appointments of particular importance in the earlier years of the
Medical Department were those of Samuel G. Armor, Missouri Medical
College, '44, who became Professor of the Institutes of Medicine and
Materia Medica in 1861, and of Albert Benjamin Prescott, '64_m_, who
entered the same year upon his long term of distinguished service in the
Chemical Laboratory and later the Department of Pharmacy, loved and
honored by many generations of students. Changes in the personnel of the
Faculty were frequent, however, and few men remained long enough to
identify their lives wholly with that of the University. When Dr. Sager
retired as Emeritus Professor and Dean in 1874, Dr. Edward S. Dunster,
New York College of Medicine and Surgery, '59, was appointed to his
chair, and held it until his death in 1888. Dr. Palmer succeeded Dr.
Sager as Dean, but in 1887, the position passed to Dr. Ford, and then,
in 1891, to Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, Mt. Pleasant (Mo.) College, '72; M.D.
(Michigan), '78, the first graduate of the School to become its Dean. He
has been a member of the Faculty since 1879, serving as Professor of
Physiology and Pathological Chemistry and Assistant Professor of
Therapeutics and Materia Medica.

As the growth of the School continued and as the field of medical
knowledge widened, new laboratories and professorships were continually
becoming necessary. The early history of the Anatomical Laboratory has
been touched upon. Dr. Ford remained in charge until 1894, when he was
succeeded by Dr. J. Playfair McMurrich, Toronto, '79, who did much for
the advancement of the scientific study of anatomy until his return to
Toronto in 1907, when George Linius Streeter, Union, '95, assumed the
chair. He resigned in 1914, and Dr. G. Carl Huber, '87_m_, Professor of
Histology then became Director of the Anatomical Laboratories. Mention
should also be made in this place of the services of Dr. George E.
Fothingham, '64_m_, Professor of Ophthalmology from 1870 to 1889, who
for some years was connected with the Department of Anatomy and drafted
the first good anatomical law.

Courses in histology were given as far back as 1856 but the emphasis on
scientific methods did not come for many years, and the courses