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address of the above date the College of Physicians and Surgeons state that a union has 

 been honourably entered into between them and the Faculty of Medicine of Columbia 

 College. The trustees of Columbia College accordingly, soon after, annulled their sta- 

 tutes which authorized the connexion of a medical school with their institution, and the 

 Regents of the University, in March, 1814, confirmed the agreement which had been 

 entered into between the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the Medical Faculty 

 of Columbia College. 



Ample courses of instruction, on the following branches of science, are now provided 

 by the state medical school of this city: Anatomy, Physiology, and Surgery; Theory 

 and Practice of Physic and Clinical Medicine; Chemistry ; Principles and Practice 

 of Surgery; Clinical Medicine; Materia Medica; Midwifery, and the Diseases of Wo- 

 men and Children ; Medical Jurisprudence ; Natural History ; Natural Philosophy. 



The legislature of this state, with the wonted liberality they have uniformly manifested 

 for the promotion of useful knowledge, at their last session authorized the raising of the 

 further sum of thirty thousand dollars, to be applied to the purposes of the College of 

 Physicians and Surgeons of this city. It is not deemed necessary here to recount the 

 great advantages which the city of New- York possesses for a great medical establish- 

 ment. With a population equal to that of most of the capitals of Europe, and composed 

 of inhabitants from all parts of the world ; with a large and well-endowed hospital, and 

 other public charities ; its botanic garden ; its well-organized medical school ; the exten- 

 sive system of education which it embraces; and its learned and able teachers, induce 

 the belief that the College of Physicians and Surgeons is second to no medical establish- 

 ment in the United States; and in their choice of such a place for the special cultiva- 

 tion of medicine, the Regents of the University have manifested the wisdom of then- 

 heads, and the excellence of their hearts. For further particulars relative to the pro- 

 gress of medicine in this state, see Middleton's Medical Discourse, Bard's Address, 

 Historical Sketch of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in Amer. Med. and Phil. 

 Register, and other parts of the same work ; Hosack's Account of the 3Ted. Schools of 

 New- York and Philadelphia ; Syllabus of the several Courses of Lectures delivered in 

 the Col. ofPhys. and Surg. N. Y. 1814 ; Reports of the Regents of the University. 



