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![ffidLuL Q4. MEMPHIS MEDICAL JOURNAL. Vol. L] MAY, 1852. [No. 2. EXPOSE. This La due. the citizens of Memphis. The vast population of the South and South-West, and especially the medical pro- fession generally, to whom we are responsible, as well as to Him who ruleth over us all. Wo presume that it is well known, that God has in every age of the world, raised up men who had the boldness to declare the whole truth, and point to the scale of Justice. He it known, therefore, that we believe that we should dis- close, as far as consistent with truth and justice, the following corollaries : 1. That the Mayor and Aldermen loaned, in all, to the Medical College of Memphis, the sum of twelve thousand dollars, and that said College Faculty under the guidance of its present Trustees, exploded and disbanded, about the third session, leaving the city minus sonic two thousand dollars and some rooms in tin' north end of Exchange Buildings, for the balance of the ten thousand .dollars—said rooms, are now called, by some, the College Halls. ■2. At this particular crisis the Memphis Medical Institute organised, and commenced lecturing in said unoccupied rooms, {n a short time thereafter, said Faculty memorialise the city authorities, to donate said rooms to the Trustees of the Institute. which the Dean of the College considered they had a legal riurht to do,inasmuch as he had importuned said city authorities the second time, for the same rooms. The Mayor and Alder- men seeing the Faculty of the Institute complete, with able lec- turers, and a respectable class, naturally inferred that the inter- est and credit of the city and her chartered institutions, would be promoted by encouraging the Institute, and desiring, to res- tore if possible, the lost conlidence occasioned by the failure of the college, they donate said rooms to the Trustees of the Institute, and at the same time they propose to help the Dean of the College upon certain conditions, which were deemed proper for the safety and harmony of the city against the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21131132_0001.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
