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tuted, consisted of Dr. Samuel Bard, JJea7i ; Dr. 

 Wright Post*, professor of Anatomy ; Dr. >\'illiam 

 Hamersley, professor of the Institutes of Medi- 

 cine ; Dr. John R. B. Rodgers, professor of Mid- 

 wifery; Dr. Nicholl, professor of Chemistry ; Dr. 

 Richard Kissam, professor of Botany ; and Dr. 

 Richard Bayley, professor of Surgery, 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- 

 signed to them. The first medical degrees 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 profes- 

 sors, yet it holds a respectable station, and has ren- 

 dered very important services to the interest of 

 medical science in the state. 



The third medical school established in the 

 United States, is in the university of Cambridge, 

 Massachusetts. This institution took its rise from 

 the benefactions of several enlightened and liberal 

 persons, who were desirous of promoting the 

 knowledge of medical science. Dr. Ezekiel Her- 

 sey, an eminent physician of Hingham, in that 

 state, who died in 1770, bequeathed one thou- 

 sand pounds, Massachusetts currency, to be ap- 

 plied to the support of a professor of Anatomy 

 and Surgery, His widow, at her death, ieti a 



* By means of the zeal and enterprise of professor Post, ( «j- 

 iumbia college is possessed of a valuable collection of Anatonurul 

 Prtparations ; to complete which that accomplished anatoii;i.-t 

 made two voyages to Europe. It is believed that thii; i^ the t:v,^t 

 collection of the )?:ind introduced into the United States, and et v- 

 ^ainly the best, 



