524 Medicine. 



Jivered lectures on the several branches assigned 

 to them ; and though the number of students who 

 usually attend them is comparatively small, yet 

 they are annually increasing ; and the erudition and 

 talents of the Professors afford a satisfactory pledge 

 that the institution w^ill, at no distant period, reach 

 a much higher station both of respectability and 

 usefulness. 



The fourth and last medical school formed in the 

 United States, is that connected with Dartmouth 

 College, in the State of New-Hampshire. This 

 establishment, for instruction in medicine, was 

 founded in the year 1798; when Dr. Nathan 

 Smith was appointed Professor of Medicine, to 

 lecture on Anatomy, Surgery, Midicifery, and the 

 Theory and Practice of Physic; and Dr. Lyman 

 Spalding Professor of Chemistry and Materia Me- 

 dica. A considerable number of young gentlemen 

 have attended the lectures, and several have re- 

 ceived the honours of this institution. 



The establishment of Medical Schools in the 

 United States may be considered as forming a 

 grand era in our national progress, and as producing 

 important effects on the character of our physicians. 

 The happy influence of these institutions has also 

 been much aided by the formation of Medical 

 Societies, in almost every State, which have all 

 come into behig within the last forty years. The 

 effect of such establishments in exciting a thirst for 

 the acquisition of knowledge; in producing a spirit 

 of generous emulation; in cultivating a taste for 

 observation and inquiry; and in combining the 

 efforts and the skill of physicians, in every part of 

 pur country, must be obvious to every attentive 

 mind. Many of the Inaugural Theses, defended 

 and pubhshed by the students, in the Am.erican 

 medical schools, would be considered as honoura- 



