An historical sketch of the origin, progress, and present state of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of the University of the State of New-York.

  • Francis, John W. (John Wakefield), 1789-1861.
Date:
1813
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Credit: An historical sketch of the origin, progress, and present state of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of the University of the State of New-York. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    part, highly honourable to the talents and acquirements ot their respective authors, and reflect credit on the institution whence they received their education. The present flourishing condition of the state Medical School cannot but be viewed with peculiar satisfaction by every friend of science and humanity; and the Board of Trustees, moreover, deeming themselves fully warranted on account of the munificent patronage of the legislature, and the laudable zeal of the Regents of the University, to aug- ment the means of medical education afforded by the Col- lege, have recently adopted measures for that purpose. In pursuanceof this object, they have appropriated a considerable part of their funds to the purchase of ground as a permanent situation for the College, and are engaged in completing an elegant and commodious edifice, in all respects commensurate with the increasing character and importance of the institu- tion. The Board of Trustees have made such arrangements as will secure the completion of the work in due season, in order that the several professors may enter upon their re- spective duties at the usual time, the first Monday in Novem- ber. Additional provision has lately been made to the anato- mical and chemical departments of the College. It may also be proper here to state, that, at the close of the last session of the College, the Trustees appointed John W. Francis, M. D. Lecturer on the Institutes of Medicine and the Mate- ria Medica. When the advantages which New-York possesses for a great medical establishment are considered; advantages, arising from its natural situation; its extensive population, now nearly equal to most of the capitals of Europe; its large and well endowed hospital and other public charities; its botanic garden; its well organized Medical College, and the extensive system of education which it embraces; and when it is further considered, that these advantages are \v