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new-established Washington College in the State of 

 Delaware. He is a skilled natural philosopher, and 

 gave lectures with much approbation on the experi- 

 mental physics at the time when the English army was 

 at Philadelphia. 



The science of Medicine has the most Professors. 

 These are at present Drs. Bond, Shippen, Kuhn, Mor- 

 gan, and Rush. None of them has a fixed salary, but 

 they earn considerable sums, according to the number 

 of those attending their lectures. They do not lecture 

 during the summer, but, hitherto, only in the five winter 

 months, three or four times weekly. They have de- 

 termined for the future to restrict their lectures to a 

 term of three months, but to hold hours daily, and for 

 the reason that there are many practicioners coming in 

 from the county to hear lectures who cannot remain 

 long from home, and besides many young students 

 dread the expense of residence. Ordinarily they read 

 their lectures, and in the English language, in which 

 also examinations and disputations pro gradu are held. 

 For here it is regarded as superfluous to twaddle bad 

 Latin from a desk for an hour (or to listen), and to 

 muddle many hours with a language in which, later, 

 there is no occasion to palaver. Besides, most of the 

 books appearing in England on medical subjects are 

 written in English and it is these that are used in 

 America almost exclusively. At the creating of a Doc- 

 tor, in whatever faculty, all the Professors are present 

 and sign the patent. Candidates for the degree of Doc- 

 tor in Medicine, it is said, are exactly and strictly ex- 

 amined, and several have already been refused ; but, 

 with the degree, the practicioner has no advantage, in 

 honor or remuneration, over other practicioners and 



