iv 4 * PREFACE. 
College, and the Kastonties? épebimens, an extensive gallery ee 
provided in the new Jefferson Medical building, now erecting in- 
Tenth, between Chestnut and Walnut streets. ‘This gallery willbe ~ 
a continuous room, _ forming a right angle, on the front and south 
aspect of the edifice ;-each angle of which measures 47 feet, by 18 | 
feet in height, and about 12 or 13 feet in width ; being well lighted 
from the-main, and small street, on which the building stands. As — 
far as the references of this volume go, it will be an explanatory 
_ eatalogue of the articles of the cabinet—for the residue, a cata- 
logue will be printed, by the session of 1828. For my own depart- 
ment, I can confidently say, that no pains nor expense will be 
spared in the arrangement and enrichment of this Cabinet, to ren- 
der it a mean of useful instruction to the numerous students who 
have encouraged our new institution, which has hitherto met with so 
much cheering encouragement,* (particularly this session, ) by intel- 
ligent and educated youth, from South Carolina, Virginia, Mary- 
~ land, Ohio, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Delaware, Pennsylva- 
nia, New-Jersey, New-York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massa- 
“chusetts, Vermont, Maine, and even the West Indies. Our class 
contained, last year, but three students from Virginia; already, at 
this early period, when the regular course has-been but five days 
commenced, we have matriculated near thrice that number, from that 
‘State—and it is not doubted, that that part of our Union which has 
‘hitherto sent so large a number of Medical Students to our city, — 
will in future bestow a good proportion on that School, which bears 
_ the name of the illustrious natal patriot of the state—a patriot of 
whom it has so much reason to be proud. 
__ This volume contains a designation of those articles of the Materia 
Medica, which, from their novelty, uninvestigated properties, or in- 
_ terest, would form uscful subjects for inaugural Theses. In reference 
to these, I have the pleasure to mention, that the Medical ‘Faculty 
_ of Jefferson College, has determined to award, this year, an equiva- 
\ to $90 for the best inaugural Latin thesis, which shall be ad- 
judged excellent, from its pure Jatinity, and the able treatment of ; 
the subject. For the next best, an equivalent to half that sum, to 
gether with certificates of this honourable Setoctoe in the chai 
-Purkapeneaa, Nov’r. 12th, 1827. | 
st ‘ the aggregate number of our elass, was less then ons fori tl 
pputed to resort to th: University. This session, ac to the ac- 
ged numbers of that schooi, we have more than one-third—and this is but 
ion of the exist. nce of our Coitege! We have ther fure every rea~ 
A oun for ealeuiating neariy on an ¢quai division with that © 
oo ) next session—and in one ee 
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