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Southwestern Medical School moved into this new building--adjacent to Parkland Memorial Hospital--in 1955. First called the Basic Science Hall, Dr. Edward H. Cary's name was later added to recognize his role in the founding of the medical school.

Southwestern Medical School's first campus on Oak Lawn Avenue--behind Parkland Hospital on Maple Avenue--placed it near several hospitals, as this photo illustrates. When Southwestern Medical College was incorporated into the University of Texas in…

Conditions inside Southwestern Medical College's prefabricated wooden buildings were bare-bones and often crowded. In this photo, students sit shoulder-to-shoulder as they bend over their microscopes.

Southwestern Medical College faculty offices in the prefabricated plywood buildings were Spartan. This photo shows Professor--and later Dean--Atticus J. Gill in his office.

Southwestern Medical College opened in the fall of 1943, under the auspices of the Southwestern Medical Foundation.The College was housed in prefabricated plywood buildings (often called "the shacks") on Oak Lawn Avenue behind Parkland Hospital,…

The snail has sometimes been interpreted as a symbol of resurrection, due to occasional periods of hibernation. A Dutch or Flemish floral painting from the 1600s might have an image of a snail cleverly hidden.

Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children opened in Dallas in 1921 in this building near the corner of Oak Lawn and Maple Avenues. A founder and the chief of surgery was Dr. Willam Beal Carrell, the first orthopedic surgeon in Dallas, who had…

Sugar was used in pharmacies principally to cover bad tastes, to give form, and to preserve more active substances. Many tablets today are coated after being pressed. Although modern tablet coatings use other ingredients, sugar coating has a long…

Species of poisonous vegetable resembling the parsnip and native to Great Britain. Its effects are similar to those of opium, relieving pain, allaying irritability, and producing sleep. However, it has the advantage of not constipating the bowels, as…

S was an abbreviation for syrupus (syrup). The ancient Greek physician Dioscorides mentions oats as a remedy for coughs in his herbal.