2.36 Nations lately becoine Literary. [Ch. XXVI. 



Gooper*, of NewYorkj Dr. Chandler of New Jer- 

 sey; Dr. William Smith of Pennsylvania; and Mr. 

 Boucher of Maryland f. From the middle of the 

 century to the commencement of the revolutiona- 

 ry war this subject engaged much attention and 

 employed many pens in the American colonies J. 

 The establishment of the Medical Schoolin Phi- 

 ladelphia § forms an important era in the progress 

 of American science. Before this time, there 

 were no means of completing a regular me- 

 dical education in the American colonies, and 

 all who wished to obtain such an education 

 were under the necessity of going to Europe 

 for the purpose. Hence, when the plan of a 

 medical school was formed in Philadelphia, it 

 became an object of peculiar importance and in- 

 terest in the view of all who wished well to the 

 improvement of the country. The plan was 

 formed by Dr. William Shippen and Dr. John 

 Morgan, both natives of Pennsylvania, and began 

 to be executed in the year 1764. In that year 

 Dr. Shippen gave the first coiu'se of lectures upon 



nation, and vivacity of mind. Proposals have been lately made 

 for publishing his works in several volumes. 



* The rev. Myles Cooper was a native of England, and re- 

 ceived his education at the university of Oxford. He succeeded 

 Dr. Samuel Johnson as president of King's college, which office 

 he held a number of years. He maintained a literary character 

 of considerable eminence. 



t See Additional Notes (N). 



* The rev. Drs. Rodgers, Mason, Laidlie, and Inglis, all of 

 New York, also wrote and published on the subject of the Ame- 

 tican episcopate, but less formally and extensively than the per- 

 sons mentioned above^ 



§ See voL ii, p. 18» 



