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INTRODUCTION. 
The regents 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 
