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Henry Willis Baxley was born on June 13, 1803, in Clover Hill, Maryland, the son of George and Mary (Merryman) Baxley.
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Henry Willis Baxley was born on June 13, 1803, in Clover Hill, Maryland, the son of George and Mary (Merryman) Baxley.
Henry Baxley received his collegiate education at St. Mary's College and graduated in medicine at the University of Maryland in 1824.
Henry Baxley’s first public position was that of attending physician to the Baltimore General Dispensary, 1826-29. He subsequently was appointed physician to the Maryland Penitentiary, 1831-32. In the latter year when cholera made its appearance he was sent by the president and directors of that institution to New York to investigate the history and pathology of the disease. His elaborate report was subsequently published in the Baltimore newspapers. In 1837 Baxley became the occasion, if not the cause, of the temporary disruption of the University of Maryland Medical School. The board of regents of that institution had been abolished by the Maryland legislature in 1825, and a board of trustees created, with the new power of appointing professors regardless of the nomination of the faculty. These trustees were charged by the older professors with extravagance, inefficiency, and financial corruption. Baxley was appointed demonstrator of anatomy in the school in 1834 and allied himself with the trustees. He was unpopular with both students and faculty.
Three years later the head of his department, Professor Geddings, resigned, owing, it was thought, to pressure from the trustees. The faculty nominated Dr. William N. Baker to succeed Geddings, but the trustees appointed Baxley. The faculty thereupon resigned in a body and, led by Professors Potter and Hall, who had been appointed by the old board of regents, they proceeded to call these regents together, to take possession of some of the buildings, in which they continued their instruction, and to enter suit for the recovery of the other buildings. Meanwhile the trustees, retaining Baxley, appointed new professors to the vacated chairs, and these in their turn gave instruction in the buildings which remained to them. The anomalous situation was ended in 1839 by the court of appeals which declared the act of 1825 unconstitutional and reinstated the regents in control.
Baxley then joined with Dr. Horace H. Hayden, a pioneer teacher of dentistry, and Dr. Thomas E. Bond, Jr. , in the establishment, in 1839, of the first dental college to be formally organized either in this country or abroad, the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery. He became its first professor of anatomy. In 1839 he reported a case of removal of the entire lower jaw of a patient suffering from osteosarcoma. In 1846 he was appointed professor of surgery in the Washington Medical College of Baltimore but resigned in 1847. He was physician to the Baltimore Alms House 1849-50. He is said by Dr. Judson Gilman (post) to have been one of the first on record to operate for strabismus. In 1850 he was called to the chair of anatomy in the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati and in 1852 was transferred to that of surgery, but remained for only two sessions.
During President Buchanan's administration, Baxley visited the west coast of South America and California and the Pacific Islands on a mission to reform hospital work under consular supervision. This mission extended through eighteen months. On his return to America he published a pamphlet entitled Republican Imperialism, Not American Liberty and somewhat later his first book, under the title, What I Saw on the West Coast of South and North America and at the Hawaiian Islands (1865). He was appointed Government Inspector of Hospitals in 1865.
In 1866 failing health caused Baxley to go to Europe where he spent the next nine years mainly in Italy and Spain. During this time he wrote a two-volume book entitled Spain, Art Remains and Art Realities, Painters, Priests and Princes (1875). His name is perpetuated in the Baxley Medical Professorship of the Johns Hopkins Medical School. By his will a sum of money amounting to $23, 836. 52 was received by the trustees of the University to endow any medical professorship that they might think proper. This fund, the first substantial gift received by the University outside of the original endowment, was kept intact and allowed to accumulate until 1901 when it was set apart to endow the professorship of pathology.
Henry Baxley established the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery in 1839, where he became its first professor of anatomy. Baxley also served as Government Inspector of Hospitals. He wrote: What I Saw on the West Coast of South and North America and at the Hawaiian Islands (1865) and Spain, Art Remains and Art Realities, Painters, Priests and Princes (1875).
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Baxley was tall, well built, very neat and accurate in all matters, dress included, and in later years had a snow-white beard which reached almost to his waist.
