40 INTRODUCTION. 



The rec^ents appointed a new faculty, consisting of doctors Watts, J. A. Smith, 

 Stevens, Dana, J. M. Smith, Delafield and John B. Beck ; and Dr. Watts 

 became president of the institution, which, with some changes in its corps of 

 teachers, still continues to dispense medical knowledge. The faculty which had 

 retired, established a new school under the sanction of Rutgers College of New- 

 Jersey, and gave lectures for a time in the city of New- York, which were re- 

 ceived with high favor ; but a charter being denied them, they discontinued their 

 labors in 1829. 



The University of the city of New- York has recently established a medical 

 faculty, in which Dr. Mott lectures on surgery. Dr. Patterson on anatomy. Dr. 

 Paine on the materia medica. Dr. Draper on chemistry. Dr. Revero on the prac- 

 tice of physic, and Dr. Bedford on obstetrics. About four hundred pupils are 

 now annually educated in the medical profession in the city of New- York. 



The College of Physicians and Surgeons of the western district was founded 

 at Fairfield, in Herkimer county, in 1812, under a charter granted by the regents. 

 The institution flourished many years, but has recently been discontinued, and 

 its professors transferred to the new Medical College recently established at Al- 

 bany. The faculty of this institution combines much talent and learning. 



A faculty of medicine equally respectable and efficient has been established at 

 Geneva College, and is diffusing medical knowledge very extensively to the 

 numerous candidates for the honors of the profession in the western region of the 

 state. The medical schools last mentioned have received liberal aid from the 

 public treasury, and deservedly continue to enjoy the nurturing care of the 

 regents of the university. 



Returning from this brief account of institutions for medical education to our 

 notice of the early progress of the healing art, we find a short paper written by 

 Michaelis during the revolutionary war, showing the importance of opium as 

 applicable to certain conditions of the human system, being an essay containing 

 interesting results of his practice among the foreign troops. North, a physician 

 attached to the British army in New- York, about the same time, introduced his 



