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tuuate enough to recover from it. In the autumn of 

 the same year, he was chosen Physician to the Penn- 

 sylvania Hospital. In that celebrated institution, his 

 services were principally in the department of surge- 

 ry, where he found ample scope for the exercise of his 

 humanity. I have been assured, from unquestionable 

 authority, that in attendance on the sick, he knew no 

 difierence between the rich and the poor. It requires 

 no small knowledge of the human heart, no little ex- 

 perience in the business of the world, to appreciate 

 this trait of character according to its real value. It 

 is easy to applaud the conduct of the good Samari- 

 tan — we all doit — and the Priest and the Lcvitc, had 

 they heard the parable, would have done the same. 

 But when brought to the test, they cast their eyes on 

 the wounded traveller and passed by. 



The Rival Faculties of medicine being united in 

 the University of Pennsylvania, "Wistar was elected, 

 in January 1792, adjunct Professor of anatomy, 

 midwifery, and surgery, with the late Doctor Wm. 

 Shippeu, one of the fathers of the medical school. 

 Surgery and midwifery were afterwards erected into 

 several professorships ; Shipperi and Wistar retained 

 anatomy, and on the death of Shippcn, in 1808, 

 Wistar was placed, as sole Professor in the anatomi- 

 cal chair. 



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