. An epitome of the history of medicine. By Roswell Park ... Based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. 2d ed. Illustrated with portraits and other engravings . Fig. 42.—B. Waterhouse, famous Hunters of London, and a pupil of the elderMonro,—gave a course of lectures on human and com-parative anatomy. Dr. William Shippen, Jr. (1736-1808),—a student of John Hunters,—returned in 1762 toAmerica, and gave his first course of lectures on anatomyand midwifery during the years immediately lectures led to the formation of a Medical Departmentof the Colle
. An epitome of the history of medicine. By Roswell Park ... Based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. 2d ed. Illustrated with portraits and other engravings . Fig. 42.—B. Waterhouse, famous Hunters of London, and a pupil of the elderMonro,—gave a course of lectures on human and com-parative anatomy. Dr. William Shippen, Jr. (1736-1808),—a student of John Hunters,—returned in 1762 toAmerica, and gave his first course of lectures on anatomyand midwifery during the years immediately lectures led to the formation of a Medical Departmentof the College of Philadelphia, in 1765, in which lectureswere continued regularly until the winter of 1775, when OUR FIRST MEDICAL SCHOOL. 281 the War of the Revolution interfered. In July of 1776Sliippen was made Chief-Physician of the ContinentalArray, and in the following year was elected by theProvincial Congress Director-in-General of army ^ the latter years of the war he returned to Phila-delphia each winter, and delivered a course of lectures,. Fro. 43.—Sttrgeons Hall, next to Philadelphia Dispensary, Fifth Street below Library Street. Foundation of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsjlvania. First medical school in America, 1765-1807. shortened by the necessities of the case. Thus he wasthe first public teacher of midwifery in this country. liewas ably seconded in his work by Dr. John Morgan(1735-1789),—also a pupil of Hunter and Monro, whoreceived a prominent army appointment in 1775, butwho, two years later, was unlbrtunately dismissed on 282 THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE. charges subsequently proved false. Shippen and Morganwere for some time the only professors in the MedicalDepartment of the College of Philadelphia. In 1768Kuhn—a pupil of Linnaeus—was made Professor ofMateria Medica and Botany; and Benjamin Rush, a yearlater, was given the Chair of Chemistry. The commence-ment of this institution occurred in 1768, when the degreeof
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