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Pi Upsilon Rho
Pi Upsilon Rho () was a United States-based professional fraternity for homeopathy students established at Hahnemann Medical College in 1876 under the name Ustion. It changed its name to Pi Upsilon Rho in 1909. By 1920 it had five active chapters. It has been credited as one of the United States' oldest medical fraternities. The fraternity's governing body, the Supreme Corpus, would meet annually at the convention of the American Institute of Homeopathy. Symbols and traditions *The badge of the society is in the form of a diamond lozenge, with the Greek letters , and across the middle. Above this are three torches and below this are two crossed bones. An image of the badge is at the center of the Fraternity's crest. *The quarterly periodical of the fraternity was the ''Torch''. *Chapters were named "Vertebrae", and were designated by Latin numerals. Officers were named thusly: *Encephalon (President) *Medulla Oblongata (Vice-president) *Calamus Scriptorius (Secretary) *Optic T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hahnemann Medical College
Drexel University College of Medicine is the medical school of Drexel University, a private research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The medical school represents the consolidation of two medical schools: the first U.S. medical school for women and the nation's first college of homeopathy. With one of the nation's largest enrollments for a private medical school, Drexel University College of Medicine is the second most applied-to medical school in the United States. It is ranked no. 83 in research by '' U.S. News & World Report''. The college is housed in East Falls, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the Queen Lane Campus, near the Henry Ave site of the former Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. The Queen Lane Campus is primarily used by students during their preclinical training. The Center City Hahnemann University Hospital Campus was the college's primary teaching hospital until its closure in 2019. The College of Medicine follows a systems-based curriculum tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
