as I have previously pointed out,[1] he attempted some medical service for the Indians.
On page 102 of the earlier article, I stated that W. C. McKay was sent to Fairfield, and on page 106 it is stated that he may have enrolled only in the academic department. Additional evidence indicates that this is true, and that his first registration as a medical student was at the Medical Institute of Geneva College, probably in 1841-42. The next year he followed one of his instructors, Dr. John Delamater, to the new medical school at Willoughby, Ohio, completing the second course of lectures required in that day at that school in 1843. Since he was but nineteen years of age at the time, it is probable that McKay failed to get his medical degree from Willoughby because he was a minor. He was given a certificate of some sort, which was accepted in Oregon, on his return, as entitling him to practice medicine. The Willoughby school was short lived and McKay apparently never received a medical degree from it. He was granted an honorary degree of doctor of medicine by Willamette University after many years of practice without a degree. This diploma is dated at Salem, Oregon, March 4, 1872, and is signed by T. M. Gatch as president of the university, and by the members of the medical faculty.
On page 107 of the article on the Fairfield Medical School footnote 7 should be corrected to read: According to some statements there were 579 medical graduates, instead of 555.
- ↑ Larsell, in [[Oregon Historical QuarterlyOregon Historical Quarterly, June, 1936, 108.
