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anatomy that was ever delivered in America. In 

 1765 Dr. Morgan began to give a course of pub- 

 lic instruction on the institutes of medicine. In 

 1768 Dr. Adam Kuhn, also a native of Pennsyl- 

 vania, and a favourite pupil of the celebrated 

 Linnaeus, commenced a system of lectures on 

 botany and materia medica j and in 1769 Dr. 

 Benjamin Rush, who had just returned from the 

 university of Edinburgh, began to lecture ou 

 chemistry. These lectures, which were delivered 

 by the aforesaid gentlemen as professo-rs of the 

 college of Philadelphia, were all of them the first 

 attempts of the kind which had been made upon 

 any regular plan on that side of the Atlantic. 

 The medical school, thus formed, soon became 

 an object of public attention; was resorted to 

 by pupils from diiTerent parts of the colonies ; 

 has been since gradually increasing ; and at pre- 

 sent not only holds the first rank among similar 

 institutions in the United States, but Avill bear a 

 very honourable comparison v/ith some of the 

 best medical seminaries in Europe. 



In 1767 an attempt was also made to establish 

 a medical school in King's college, in the city of 

 New York *. Professors were appointed by the 

 governors of that institution to teach the various 

 branches of medical science, and a few courses 

 of lectures were given ; but the design was not 

 pursued with so much success as in Pennsylvania: 

 it was wholly set aside by the revolutionary war, 

 and did not revive again, to any purpose, until 



* See vol. li, p. 19. 



