Historical sketch of the origin, progress, and present state of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the University, New York.

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[1813?]
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Credit: Historical sketch of the origin, progress, and present state of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the University, New York. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SAMt:EL Bard,* Professor of the Theory and Prartice of Physic. I lectures on these several branches of medicine were regularly delivered by tlie above-mentioned gentlemen, and the Degree of Doctor of Medicine conferred by the College.I About the same time, in consequence of a public address delivered by Dr. Samuel Baud, at the medical graduation, in 1769, a very important addition was made (o the means of medical education then afforded by the establishment of the New-York Hospital. The necessity and usefulness of a pub- lic infirmary, to use the language of Dr. ]MiDDr-ETON,J '* were so warmly and patiietically set forth in that memora- ble discourse, that, upon the same day on which it was de- livered, a subscription was commenced by His Excellency Sir Henrv Moore, and the sum of eight hundred pounds •terliug collected for that establishment. The corporation of the city, animated by the same public spirit and active benevolence, in a short time added three thousand pounds sterling to the first subscription, when the united amount was employed in layingthefoundationof that valuable institution, now the pride of our city, and alike devoted to the purposes of humanity and the promotion of medical science.§ The IMedical School of New-York, thus provided with learned and able professors, promised to be productive of tlie greatest advantages; but the revolutionary \Mr occasioned a suspension of tlieir labours ; the professors and students '* The prcFcnt President ofllie Colloge of Physicians and SiirzjMnH, New-Vorfc. f In his valuable Retrospect of the Eightitentb Century, Dr. B^Br asserts, that DO medical degrees had been conferred l)y the College previous totne revolutionary war. Notwithst/tnding the Rpneral accuracy of Dr. Miller, lie, in thin ins^tanrc, is mistaken. A copy of an Inaugural Dissertation ou the anthelniiiilic quality of the Phastolus Zuratemis Sili'jua hirtuta, or Cow-Itch, for the Medical Doctorate ia King's College, by Saniutl Kifsam, M. B. and published in May, 1771, may fce icon in the library of tlie Ncw-Wrk yietoriral Society. J Medical Discoui?c, p- €f. HosarV'sSkctc'h.