322 Medicine. 



pose of pursuing the former plan of instruction 

 But the gentlemen so appointed did not all deliver 

 lectures; the courses actually given were short 

 and incomplete, and the undertaking languished, 

 and finally fell to the ground. 



After several other ineffectual attempts to esta- 

 blish a course of medical instruction in the city, the 

 Trustees of Columbia College, in 1792, organized 

 the school on its present plan, and commenced a 

 course, v/hich has succeeded better than any former 

 attem.pt. The Faculty of Physic, as then consti- 

 tuted, consisted of Dr. Samuel Bard, Dean; Dr. 

 Wright Post,' Professor of ^7z«^o??z?/; Dr. William 

 Hamersley, Professor of the Institutes of Medi- 

 cine; Dr. John R. B. Rodgers, Professor of il//<i- 

 wifery; Dr. Nicholl, Professor of C/?^?7zz>/rj/ ; Dr. 

 Richard Kiss am. Professor of Botany; and Dr. 

 Richard Bayley, Professor of AS'z/rox^/^/. These gen- 

 tlemen, the greater number of whom had received 

 a regular medical education in Europe, soon com- 

 menced the several departments of instruction as- 

 sis^ned to them. The first medical deo-rees were 

 conferred by this institution in 1793 ; and though it 

 has not grown so rapidly as might have been ex^ 

 pected, from the learning and talents of its Pro- 

 fessors, yet it holds a respectable station, and has 

 rendered very important services to the interest of 

 medical science in the state. 



The third medical school established in \h^ 

 United States, is that in the University of Cam- 

 bridsfe, Massachusetts. This institution took its 

 rise from the benefactions of several enlightened 

 and liberal persons, who w^ere desirous of pro- 



K By means of the zeal and enterprise of Professor Post Columbia Col- 

 lege is possessed of a valuable collection of Anatomical Preparations ,- to com- 

 plete which that accomplished Anatomist made two voyages to Europe. It 

 is believed that this is the first collection of the kind introduced into the 

 Wnited States, and certainly the best. 



