Excerpt from Introductory Address: Delivered Before the Medical Department of Georgetown College, Session 1865-66 Nearly three years after the establishment of the school at Philadelphia, the emulative spirit of New York city led to the formation, in 1767, of another school, in connection with King's College, as it was then called, with a cor s of professors, six in number, of whom, perhaps, Dr. Samuel ard is best known to fame. The colleges of these two cities, the earliest formed in the country, have still held the ...
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Excerpt from Introductory Address: Delivered Before the Medical Department of Georgetown College, Session 1865-66 Nearly three years after the establishment of the school at Philadelphia, the emulative spirit of New York city led to the formation, in 1767, of another school, in connection with King's College, as it was then called, with a cor s of professors, six in number, of whom, perhaps, Dr. Samuel ard is best known to fame. The colleges of these two cities, the earliest formed in the country, have still held the first rank among American schools; arising, perhaps, out of the circumstance that they were commenced in the most populous cities, the centres of intelligence, where the most active and best educated minds of the profession can be found to occupy the position of teacher, as an introduction to the wider fame of a consulting physician. Medical schools should only exist in cities, where alone proper facilities for teaching exist. The medical col leges in remote places in the interior of States cannot do justice to their classes, unless largely endowed by State funds. It might be supposed in a country which prizes education, that the art of healing would share in the general care and patronage which a State bestows: but this is an error. The State cares not for medical progress - the literary colleges and universities dislike the proximity of medical schools but medicine is justified of her children, and no where on this continent can be pointed a medical school or college founded under any other auspices than that of the learned and intelligent physicians of the locality. From the earliest experiments of Shippen and Morgan to the latest school of our time, as a profession we have had to form and support our own institutions, and the only value of the connection with a literary college has been the license to grant degrees; a power, I think, neither necessary nor bene ficial to the schools of medicine. When the true interests of medicine are better understood, I am of opinion that medical schools will not be occupied with licensing, but simply with teaching medicine, and the student, on the other hand, will not look for a barren parchment of Doctor in Medicine, but seek from appropriate quarters, after a rigid examination from disinterested hands, a certificate of being qualified to practice medicine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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