320 Medicine. 



About the year 1762 Dr. William SniPfE^r 

 and Dr. John Morgan, both natives of Pennsyl- 

 vania, and youthful friends, who had gone to the 

 University of Edinburgh, to complete their medi- 

 cal education, and who had received its honours, 

 met in London, whither they had repaired for the 

 purpose of receiving instruction from the large 

 hospitals, and excellent teachers of that city. 

 They there agreed to attempt the establishment of 

 a Medical School in Philadelphia. Accordingly, 

 in the year 1764, Dr. Shippen gave the first course 

 of lectures upon Anatomy that ever was delivered 

 in America. In 1765 Dr. Morgan laid before 

 the trustees of the College of Philadelphia a plan 

 for teaching all the branches of medicine, and con- 

 ferring medical degrees. This plan was adopted; 

 Dr. Shippen was recognized as Professor of ^;z<2- 

 tomy^ and Dr. Morgan was appointed Professor of 

 tht Institutes of Medicine J and soon afterwards be- 

 gan to teach them. In the year 1768 Dr. Adam 

 KuHN, who had studied under the celebrated Lin- 

 naeus, was appointed Professor of Botany, and of 

 the Materia Medica; and in 1769 Dr. Benjamin 

 Rush, who had just completed his medical studies 

 in Europe, was chosen Professor of Chemistry, 

 To these gentlemen was added Dr. Thomas Bond, 

 who was selected to give Clinical Lectures, on the 

 cases of disease in the Pennsylvania Hospital. 

 The first American Medical School, thus organized, 

 became the resort of students from every part 

 of the then Colonies: It has since undergone con- 

 siderable changes, by the death and resignation of 

 Professors, and new appointments; but continues 

 to flourish; and will now bear a very honourable 

 comparison, at least with regard to the talents and 

 learning of its Professors, with the most respecta- 

 ble institutions of a similar kind in Europe. 



