Identifier: tristatemedicalj2189ball (find matches)
Title: Tri-State medical journal
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Ball, James Moores, 1863-1929
Subjects: Tri-State Medical Society Medicine
Publisher: St. Louis : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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dicine in St. Louis, in January, 1842, and the following year was made Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the medical department of the University of St. Louis. In 1847 he becam eProfessor of Surgery in the same institution, and two years later he was elected Dean of the Faculty, a position which he held nearly twenty years. 546 In the Professional Eye. His repeated visits to Europe made Doctor Pope familiar with the great men of England and the Continent; with Civiale, Velpeau, Nelaton, Richet, Longet, Holmes Coot and Paget he was on familiar terms. The city of Paris was his paradise, and her surgeons were his saints. For a quarter of a century Doctor Pope enjoyed a lucrative practice in St. Louis. When in 1867 he left St. Louis and located his family in Paris, it was with profound sorrow that the people of this city read that on the morning of July 3, 1870, Professor Charles A. Pope had died by his own hand. Doctor J. P. Chesney, in writing of the great surgeon, said: In personal appearance
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DR. CHARLES A. POPE. Professor Pope was graceful and commanding; he was of medium stature, straight as an arrow, lithe and well-knit frame, capable of any amount ofsuperb professional work. In physiognomic expression he was pleasing, but nothing remarkable except his restless bluish-gray eye. On entering the lecture room his step was quick and his manner hurried, and his nature cold and clean as his scalpel; he indulged in no familiarities, and exacted an observance of the most scrupulous decorum from his class. He always Important Articles for January. 547 had the heads of his subjects noted down in very fine hand, on the smallest possible bit of paper, the edges being trimmed with the most particular neatness. As a lecturer, his utterances were low, rapid, brief, clear, forcible, and full; he had no time to explain or recapitulate; to comprehend him required close attention. He was fluent of speech, but made no effort at oratory; few men could say more and say it better in an hour than he.A

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