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the physicians already named, and as the years passed 

 a succession of able young men came over from Penn- 

 sylvania to England for this purpose. Fothergill wel- 

 comed them, invited them to his house, and interested 

 himself in their studies, which were usually pursued at 

 Edinburgh, giving them advice and facilities for seeing 

 what was most worthy of notice. He took pains to 

 estimate their characters and abilities, and when, after 

 obtaining a degree and visiting some of the chief medical 

 centres on the continent of Europe, they returned to 

 America, he would write a discriminating account of 

 their proficiency, and intimate what part in the growing 

 institutions there he thought them best fitted to take. 



Dr. William Shippen, junior, member of a family 

 well known in Philadelphia, returned from his European 

 studies in 1762. Fothergill writes to Pemberton : "I 

 propose to send by Dr. Shippen a present to the Hospital 

 of some intrinsic value. I need not tell thee that the 

 knowledge of Anatomy is of exceeding great use to 

 practitioners in Physic and Surgery, and that the means 

 of procuring subjects for dissection with you are not 

 easy. Some pretty accurate anatomical drawings, about 

 half as big as the life, have fallen into my hands, which I 

 propose to send to your Hospital to be under the care of 

 the Physicians, and to be by some of them explained to 

 the students and pupils who may attend the Hospital. 

 In the want of real subjects these will have their use, 

 and I have recommended it to Dr. Shippen to give a 

 course of Anatomical Lectures to such as may attend. 

 He is very well qualified for the subject, and will soon be 

 followed by an able assistant, Dr. Morgan, both of whom, 

 I apprehend, will not only be useful to the province in 

 their employments, but, if suitably countenanced by the 

 legislature will be able to erect a School of Physic amongst 

 you that may draw students from various parts of America 

 and the West Indies." The series of coloured carbon 

 drawings and casts referred to was accordingly sent out. 

 The drawings, eighteen in number, represent dissections 

 of the human body and diagrams illustrative of mid- 



