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MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY LIBRARY
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Author
Chew, Samuel Claggett, 1837-1915.
Title Statement
Oration delivered before the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland,
at their annual meeting in Baltimore, June 3, 1858 / by Samuel Chew, M.D.
Published
Baltimore : Printed by Hedian & Piet, 1858.
Description
21 p. : ; 22 cm.
Title Statement
Oration delivered before the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland,
at their annual meeting in Baltimore, June 3, 1858 / by Samuel Chew, M.D.
Call Number
PAM 2229
Location
Main Reading Room
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Dates: 1837-1915
Notes: For forty-five years, from 1864 to 1909, Samuel Claggett Chew was a member of the faculty and of the board of regents of the University of Maryland, for twenty-one years occupying the chair of materia medica and therapeutics and for twenty-four years that of the practice of medicine.
He was born in Baltimore, July 26, 1837, the son of Samuel Chew (q.v.), who likewise held the same chairs, and was dean of the faculty. His great grandfather was Thomas John Claggett, the first Episcopal Bishop of Maryland, and the first bishop of nay church to be consecrated in America. The son graduated at Princeton in 1856, and received an A.M. in 1859; took his M.D. from the University of Maryland in 1858 and settled in practice in Baltimore, there to live, except for a visit to Europe in 1864, until his death, March 22, 1915, at the age of seventy-five.
His teaching was characterized by varied and profound scholarship. His powers of analysis, his keen sensing of the students’ needs and limitations, his fine presence and rich voice made his didactic lectures models of the teacher’s art. He was an exemplar of the gentleman and scholar in medicine, and left his impress on some four thousand students. As a public speaker before medical assemblies he was much in demand, delivering an address on “Medicine in the Past and Future” before the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland in 1880, presented the bust of Dr. George W. Miltenberger to the same body in 1896 and giving two addresses at the Centennial celebration of the foundation of the University of Maryland in 1907.
Dr. Chew was one of the authors of “Pepper’s System of Medicine,” and he was the author of: “Clinical Lectures on Certain Diseases of the Heart, and on Jaundice,” 1871; “Papers on Medical Jurisprudence,” 1879; “Notes on Thoracentesis,” 1876, besides editing his father’s “Lectures on Medical Education,” in 1864.
He was president of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland in 1879-80 and in 1898-99, consulting physician to the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and president of the board of trustees of the Peabody Institute.
Medical Annals of Maryland, E.F. Cordell, Baltimore, 1903
Centenn. Celebr. Of Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore, 1908. Portrait.
Bull. Med. And Chir. Fac. Md., Baltimore, 1915, vii, 77-82. Portrait.
Source: Kelly, Howard A. and Burrage, Walter J., American Medical Biographies Baltimore: Norman, Remington Company: 215-216
Medicine in Maryland, 1752-1920 