Catalogue of the medical graduates of the University of Pennsylvania : with an historical sketch of the origin, progress, and present state of the medical department / Pub. by direction of the Medical faculty of the University.
- Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
- Date:
- 1836
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Catalogue of the medical graduates of the University of Pennsylvania : with an historical sketch of the origin, progress, and present state of the medical department / Pub. by direction of the Medical faculty of the University. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![( «1 ) other departments, and each unwilling to forego the exercise of tliat privilege in favour of tho otlier. The consequence was the formation of two medical faculties, consisting partly of the members, of the old faculty, partly of professors newly elected. It is worthy of notice as a curious coincidence, that Dr. Morgan, the first ])ro- fessor in the school, and to be regarded as in some measure its founder, died at this period, before the new arrangements for the formation of the two faculties could be completed. After the death of Dr. Morgan, only three of the old faculty remained, of whom- Dr. Shippen retained a place in both schools, Dr. Kulm continued in the Uni- versity, and Dr. Rush joined the College. In the former school, the faculty was completed by the appointment of Dr. James Hutchinson, an active member or tlie Board of Trustees, to the united chairs of Materia Medica and Chemistry.; in the latter, by the election of Dr. Samuel P. Griffitts to the professorship of,Ma- teria Medica, Dr. Caspar Wistar to that of Chemistry, which was now united with the Institutes of Medicine, and Dr. Benjamin S. Barton to a newly estab- lished professorship devoted to Botany and Natural History. The following sy- nopsis will exhibit the organization of the two scliools, as it was completed to-- wards the close of the year 1789. College of Philadelphia. Professorships. rrofessnrs. 1. Anatomy and Surgery, Dn. William Shippen; 2. Theory and Practice of Medicine, Dr. Benjamin Rush; 3. Materia Medica and Pharmaej', Dr. Samuel P. Griffitts : 4. Chemistry and the Institutes of Medicine, Dr. Caspar Wistar ; 5. Botany and Natural History, Dr. Benjamin S. Barton,. University of Pennsylvania. Professorships. Professors. 1. Anatomy and Surgery, Dr. William Shippen ; 2. Theory and Practice of Medicine, Dr. Adam Kuhn; 3. Materia Medica and Chemistry, Dr. James Hutchinson. During the separate existence of the two schools, the University retained the former practice of conferring the preparatory degree of Bachelor of Medicine, This, however, was abandoned by the College, which conferred only the degree of Doctor of Medicine. The number of graduates was as follows :— In the College. In the University. Dnte. Graduates. Date. Graduates. A.D. 1790 5 A. D. 1790 12 1791 5 1791 1 The impolicy of attempting to sustain two schools in a place of which the pa- tronage was not more than sufficient for the support of one, was too obvious to escape the notice of intelligent men; and we accordingly find that the idea of a union soon occurred to those interested in the different institutions. Nor was it long before so desirable an object was effected. The trustees of the College, having received an intimation that a disposition existed on the part of the trustees of the University to confer with them respecting a union of the interests of the two in- stitutions, made a proposition to this effect to the latter body, by whom it was promptly accepted. Conferences accordingly took place, which resulted in an application to the legislature for the requisite alteration of the charters; and this](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24750128_0091.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
