History Of BUSM

Question 1

Missouri Compromise- 1821

Answer 1

Missouri asked to be a slave state
Maine was ambivalent about abolitionism

Anti-slavery societies generally did not receive broad support from press or public

Groups sought to educate public and rouse interest in their cause through lectures from notable abolitionists

Question 2

Beecher Family

Answer 2

Lyman Beecher began to attract national attention when he preached anti-slavery sermons in response to the Missouri compromise

Actively used the Plymouth Church to fight slavery

Following the MO compromise and the passage of the Kansas Nebraska Act –> Plymouth church paid to ship rifles to anti-slavery settlers in Kansas and Nebraska in crates marked Bibles

Question 3

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 3

Wrote Uncle Tom’s cabin
Was an early board member for BUSM and championed the admission of Rebecca Lee Crumpler, first African female to be admitted into med school

Question 4

Events leading up to the Civil War

Answer 4

SC rep Brooks beats up MA senator Sumner after he gave an anti-slavery speech

John brown hung in 1859 after attempting to take over Harper’s Ferry

Stowe accepts 1st black female into BUSM

Stowe’s brother buys Brown’s chains and wears them

Question 5

Mary Baker Eddy

Answer 5

Founded and lead the Christian Science Church

Started a world religion –> first woman to do so

Question 6

Women’s Rights- Seneca Falls

Answer 6

BU Med school first set up in 1848 as a women’s college for medicine

Question 7

BUSM 1859

Answer 7

Honored commitment to female medical education

First class 1/3 female

Females well represented in faculty

Question 8

Rebecca Lee Crumpler

Answer 8

1st female black to graduate medical school in US

Wanted to assist recently freed slaves after graduating

Faced discrimination and harsh conditions and comments

First black physician to write a medical textbook (also covered children’s health)

Question 9

Solomon Carter Fuller, MD

Answer 9

First black psychiatrist in USA and first to hold a faculty rank outside of all black medical schools at BUSM

Researcher in AD

Concerned about the lack of minority physicians and worked to recruit and retained minority’s doctors in his professional life

Question 10

Anna Howard Shaw

Answer 10

Father was a noted abolitionist

Chaired the national women’s suffrage association

Question 11

Legacy of MLK

Answer 11

PhD in systematic theology at BU

Dean Thurman helped bridge Gandhi and King (WOWWWWWWWWWW)

Question 12

William Ralph Emerson

Answer 12

Abolitionist and supporter of the suffragette movement

“You are the key to your own health”

Question 13

BUSM Grows

Answer 13

Great Boston Fire= BUSM goes into debt, Harvard wants to buy us out but want school to be all male

BU ends up making the school integrated with both males and females

Developed separate buildings with routes underneath so that fires could not spread easily

Question 14

Florence Nightingale

Answer 14

Founder of modern nursing

Opens first nursing school in the world

Question 15

Linda Richards

Answer 15

First trained nurse in the USA
Studied under Nightingale
Opens Boston city hospital nurse training program

Question 16

Faces outside BUSM

Answer 16

2 faces outside school of Hygiena and Ascepulis in honor of their work and respect

Question 17

Saving life’s (way back when)

Answer 17

Keeper- dean in 1969- named czar of penicillin

Keefer and other BUSM physicians gave themselves infections at great personal risk so that they could treat with penicillin to see what diseases could be cured by this new drug for our soldiers in WWII

Question 18

Ohiyesa (Charles ALexander Eastman)

Answer 18

1) Sioux uprising- he became separated from family
2) fled and lived with the rest of his tribe for 11 years
3) Great Sioux War- after school was sent to mission day school where he was seen as a gifted student
4) renamed
5) went to Dartmouth and then medicine at BUSM (first Native American to graduate from medical school)
6) Wounded Knee- cared for the wounded after that massacre
7) Became field secretary for YMCA
8) Went to DC as legal representative and lobbyist for the Sioux tribe
9) served as a gov physician to the Sioux
10) wrote many books, contributed to many articles, etc
11) Helped establish Boy Scouts
12) president of society of American Indians