Additional Notes, 529 



did rtot live to publish anything on the mineral or animal 

 articles of the materia medica. Professor Gmelin, of Got- 

 tingen, has publislied the Mineral Materia Mediea, as a sup- 

 plement to Murray's work; but he is not considered as 

 having done justice to the subject. 



Medical School of Kentueky. p. 324. 



In enumerating the medical schools of the United States, 

 that of Lexington, in Kentucky, was inadvertently omitted. 

 This medical seminary was established, it is believed, in 1799, 

 when Dr. Frederick Ridgely was appointed Professor of 

 the Practice of Physic, Obstetrics, and Materia Medica; and 

 Dr. Samuel Brown Professor of Anatomy, Surgery, and 

 Chemistry. 



Medical Science in America, p. 325. 



Tliere seems to be no science in which America has made 

 more progress than that of Medicine; and none in which she 

 holds a more complete independence of the doctrines and au- 

 thorities of the European world. It is indeed true, diat the 

 physicians of this country were originally indebted to their 

 preceptors in Europe for the elements of most of that know- 

 ledge which they have since so successfully laboured to sim- 

 plify, improve and extend. It was natural to suppose, as so 

 many of our most distinguished members of this profession 

 had received their education in Europe, that they would re- 

 main fixed in the trammels of early impressions, and refuse 

 to listen even to the evidence of facts, when found not to 

 coincide with the principles they had deeply imbibed. Much 

 of this blind reliance on authority has been observed; but it 

 is equally triie that America may boast of much free inquiry, 

 and of much bold and successful innovation. This hemis- 

 phere is the theatre on wliich the prejudices and errors of the 

 European schools, in a great variety of instances, have been 

 refuted and abandoned, and on which new principles in medi- 

 cine have been proposed, ascertained, and completely esta- 

 blished. In support of this assertion it would be easy to ad- 

 duce, not only the facts concerning American physicians who 

 liad been educated in Europe, and returned to their native 

 country; but those likewise of European physidans going, 



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