A reply to a pamphlet by S. Henry Dickson, M.D. entitled Statements, &c.

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1834
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    Jan. 1st, 1824.*—The appointment of a committee to organize flip contemplated College, consisting of Drs. Dickson, T. G. Prioleau, Frost, Jtavenol and J. Moultrie, Jun. Present, Drs. Manning, T. G. Prioleau, J. De La Motta, S. Wilson, Sen. Dickson, Campbell, Waring J. B. Irving, T. Y. Simons, Righton, Ravenel, Holbrook, Frost, S. Wilson, and Bailey. Feb. 2nd.\—Report of the committee offered. Present, Drs. Man- ning, T. G. Prioleau, J. Ramsay, De La Motta, Moultrie, Sen. T. Y. Simons, Hall, I. M. Wilson, Dupont, Mi-hel, Dickson Kirkland, Boyls- ton, Akin, Porcher, Ravenel, Holbrook, Campbell, Moultrie, Jun! Bailey, Waring, Joseph Johnson, I. A. Johnson, P. G. Prioleau, Wilson, Sen. J. B. Irvine, Frost and North. Feb. 3rd.%—Report of the committee continued and adopted. [Dr. Dickson is mistaken in his assertion, that the report was adopted at the previous meeting.] Present, Drs. Manning, T. G. Prioleau, Ramsay, De La Motta, Campbell, Frost, Waring, Michel, Moultrie, Sen. Moultrie, Jun. Joseph Johnson, I. A.Johnson, T. Y. Simons, Boylston, Dickson, 1. M. Wilson, Logan, and Porcher. April 12th, 1824.—Obligation of Professors, offered by Dr. Joseph Johnson, and adopted by the Society, at the regular meeting, March, 1st, 1824. * On the 1st January, 1824, Dr. Samuel Henry Dickson proposed the following Resolutions, which were affirmatively carried. Resolved, That it is expedient to establish a School of Medicine and Surgery in lliia city, under the control and direction of the Medical Society, and that the necessary steps be taken without delay. Resolved. That a committee of five shall be appointed by the President, whose duty it shall be to lay before the Society at its next meeting, such plan for the forma- tion of a Medical School, as they may deem worthy the consideration of the Society. Their report to embrace the most minute and particular arrangement in order to have the whole subject in all its details, before the Society. t Dr. Dickson, Chairman of the Committee on (he Medical College, presented and read a report. (Extract as follows.) It cannot, however, be denied, that there exists certain difficulties in the way of any plan that can be offered for the formation of a Medical School, under present circumstances. The chief and most pressing of them, the one indeed which includes all the rest, and from which they all spring, is the want of money. The funds of the Society it is too well known, are not in a condition to allow of its extending any considerable pecuniary patronage to the proposed seminary, without exhibiting a de- gree of generosity inconsistent with prudence. Yet your committee are satisfied that even this serious obstacle is by no means insurmountable ; they are confident that in any event, your professors elect will take upon themselves, willingly, the burden of the expenses of the establishment; they cannot believe that there is among us a single individual, who if chosen among from the rest for the fulfillment of so high a trust, the accomplishment of so desirable an object, would not freely, contribute his share of the necessary expenditures. Your Committee have, therefore, left this subject altogether for the determination of the Lecturers or Professors, whom you may here- after appoint. t Proceeding, continued from an adjourned meeting.—Your Committee respectfully recommend, that the Students attending the School be allowed the use of the Libra- ry, on paying five dollars per annum to the Treasurer, and giving such security against loss, abuse, or injury, either personal or pecuniary, as shall be satisfactory to the Book Committee. Your Committee would further recommend, that immediate application be made to the City Council, stating the very great advantage which would in all probability result, from the consolidation of the two public Institutions under its care, viz. the Aim-House and Marine Hospital, and the delegating to the Society the right of elect- ing the attending Physician and Surgeon to these establishments.
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