Our New Professors

The regenta at their last meeting appointed four new professors in the medical college and two new ones in the homceopathic college. These men have all accepted and will soon remove to this city. They are, without exoeption, men of national reputation, nlthough but little known outside of medical circles in this city, and The Register has prepared a brief biographical sketch of each. DR. FLEMMING CARROW, at present a resident of Bay City, takes the place made vacant by the resignation of Dr. Frothingham. In character, attainments and experience he is peculiarly adapted to the work which will be expected at bis hands. He was bom in the gouthern part of Maryland in 1852, and was a boisterous, healthy, light hearted boy, showed a marked aptitude in his studies, was strong of mind and body, took pleasure alike in sports and study, appropriated the advantage of his early life in a way to give promise of his future success, and then, because of the war which unsettled affairs at his boyhood home, went to the northern part of the state where he fitted himself for college. He entered the Dickinson seminary in 1867 and completed the classical course with honors four years later. His desire to enter upon a study of medicine was gratified and he was particularly forunate in finding an instructor in Doctor W. R. Bullock whom he profession will recall as the translator of Cazeaux's obstétrica, a voluminous and exhaustive work that has so long been an authority upon the subject which it treat?. He became a full fledged gradúate in medicine at Washington in March, 1874. Determined that the foundation of his professional knowledge should be laid broad and deep, the physician went abroad and for eight years added knowledge and the most judicious experience to his existing attainments. He had the benefit of learning and observation at London, Paris, Vienna and Berlin, going thence to Canton, China, where for several years he had charge of the practical work in the hospital of that city, in which surgical cases of all kinds could be found, duriDg the last year of the time being consul under appointment of President Garfield. The health ot Dr.Carrow's wife being seriously affected by theclimate, hereturned to the United States and settled at Bay City in 1884, going cooscientiously at work and has built up a reputation as well ae a practico worth $5,000 a year. His successes as an oculist have been little short of phenominal and give promise ot' future accomplishments even greater. He is a handeome, scholarly, cultured gentleman, smypathetic and loyal to his calling, a man of action and a prize to the state university. DR. CHARLES B. NAKCREDE, who succeeds Dr. Maclean as professor of surgery and clinical surgery, hails from Philadelphia. He graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in1860, and from the Jefferson Medical College a few years later. During his professional life he has held many positions which have brought him out as a capable teacher as well as a learned man. The positions which he has held at different times during the past few years are as follows : Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania; senior surgeon to the Protestant Episcopal hospital and to St. Christopher'g hospital ; surgeon to and lecturer on clinical surgery at the Jefferson Medical College hospital ; lecturer on surgery at Darmouth Medical College; professor of general and orthopedie turgery in Philadelphia Polly clinic. Dr. Nancrede has made a large cumber of valuable cantributions to medical journals and medical hterature. He is author of a standard work, "Easentials of Anatomy," and hascontributed ot the "International Encyclopedia of Surgery," "Wood's Handbook of Medical Science,'' and "Encyclopedia of Women's Diseases." Dr. Nancrede is a member of nearly all the medical societieg of Europe, and has but recently been elected corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Rome. He is about 45 years old and a valuable addition to the medical faculty. DR. CHARLES S. MACK, of Chicago, has been chosen to fill the position in the homceophic faculty made vacant by the resignation of Prof. Arndt. He is a man below the middle age and has had the advantage of excellent college and medical training. He graduated from Phillips Exeter acadamy and took hi B. S. degree at Harvard, alter whic:i be %?■ duated in medicine at the Universiiy ol New York. Be served two years as house surgeon on the staffs of Mt. Sinai and Emergency hospitals in New York, and was a member of the New York board of healtb, to which position he was appointed after a rigid examination by the Civil Service Reform Bureau in competition with 40 others. Soon af terwards he moved to Boston and spent three years in practice tbere, going thence to Chicago where he has been one of the most successful of homceopathic practitioners. Dr. Mack is a man of fine figure, a hard worker and a brilliant talker. J. W. FREER, PH. D., M. D., who takes the chair of general chemistry formerly filled by Prof. Langley, is a son of the former president of Rush Medical College, and is, himself, a gradúate of that institution. He then pursued his studies at Munich, Germanv, and took tbe Ph. D. degree from the University of Munich. He did brilliant work in chemistry and was exceptionably commended by nis professors there. His work in this branch attracted the notice of the British Scientifio Association and he was requested to read a paper before that body, an hoaor seldom conferred upon so young a man. He has done considerable fine work in original research. He is but 28 years oíd and the cali of so young a man to this important chair, teaching as he will be called upon to do a large nutnber of studeats in both the literary and mediool departmentg, marks out a new policy of the regents in attracting to the faculty brilliant young men. DR. CHARLES GATCHELL, who returns to Ann Arbor from Chicago, to fill the chair of theory and practica in the homceipathic department which he occupied in '78, '79 and '80, is not unknown here. He comes from a family of doctors, his fatherand several brothers being practitioners of thehealing art. After leaving Ann Arbor in 1880, Dr. Gatcbell settled at Chicago where he has worked up a successful practice. He s a lecturer on the Cook county hospital staff, and at present is president of the homceopathic part of the staff. He has engaged extensively in literary work and is editor of the Medical Era, a prosperous homceopathic journal. He is the author of two well-known works, one on theraepeutics and the other on diathesis. Beside these he has written a novel, "Haschish," under the nom de plume of Thoral King, which has been well received. W1LLIAM W. HOWELL, PH. D , who was appointed professor of physiology in place of Dr. Sewall, was the last to accept the position offered hino, his acoeptance not having been received urtil last Monday. Until reeen tly hehas been teaching physiology and histology at John Hopkins University. He is a man of large reputation and comes to the University of Michigan highly recommended by Dr. Maitin, of John Hopkins University, and Dr. Henry Sewall, whom he succeeds.