Medicine, S21 



In 1764 Dr. Shippen lectured to ten students, 

 in the season of 1801 — 2 the number of students 

 attending the different Medical Professors amount- 

 ed to one hundred and thirty, of whom twenty- 

 one were admitted to the degree of Doctor of 

 Medicine. 



The laudable example set by the physicians and 

 college of Philadelphia, soon excited the zeal of 

 the physicians of New- York to establish a medical 

 school in King's College; accordingly, in 1767 a 

 letter was addressed to the governors of that insti- 

 tution, by Drs. Samuel Clossey, Peter Middle- 

 ton, John Jones, James Smith, Samuel Bard, 

 and John V. B. Tennent, urging the propriety 

 and importance of attempting to form a plan of 

 medical instruction, and offering their services for 

 carrying it into effect. In consequence of this 

 letter the governors, a few days afterwards, elected 

 Dr. Clossey Professor oi Anatonu), Dr. Middle- 

 ton Professor of Physiology and Pathology, Dr. 

 Jones Professor of Surgery, Dr. Smith Professor 

 of Chemistry and Materia Medica, Dr. Bard Pro- 

 fessor of the Theory and Practice of Physic, and 

 Dr. Tennent Professor of Midwifery. In 1770, 

 in consequence of the death of Dr. Tennent, and 

 the removal of Dr. Smith out of the province, the 

 office of instruction in Materia Medica was com- 

 mitted to Dr, MiDDLETON, and Chemistry to Dr. 

 Bard. Lectures were regularly given by the 

 above named gentlemen ; but no medical degrees 

 had been conferred by the college, when the revo- 

 lutionary war entirely deranged, and, in effect, de- 

 stroyed the whole establishment. 



In 1784 the RcGfents of the Universitv made an 

 attempt to revive the medical school, and went so 

 far as to appoint several Professors in Columbia Col- 

 lege (the new style by which King's College became 

 known, on the change of government), for the pur- 



