Some Reminiscences of the “Pathological” in the Early Days of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Medical School

In 1889 when I began the study of medicine, many medical students still had preceptors. I was fortunate to have as my "guide, philosopher and friend," Dr. Charles Pemberton Murray, a graduate of Princeton and of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. When he heard that I was to study medicine, he suggested that I ride over to his house, a couple of miles east of Sierra Madre where I lived, and he would quiz me twice a week on Gray's Anatomy and Dalton's Physiology. In the vacation between my first and second years he quizzed me on Austin Flint's Practice of Medicine, the pathological sections of which had been written by William Henry Welch. I can distinctly recall that on one occasion Dr. Murray advised me that if I ever got a chance to study under William H. Welch, I should not fail to grasp it.