Annals of medical history . o the foundation of the firstmedical school in the American Shippen, Sr., impressed with theadvantages—denied to him—of a Europeaneducation, and following the growingcustom of the time, in 1758, sent his son,Wilham, who had already studied physicwith him for four years, to London to studyanatomy with John Hunter and obstetricswith William Hunter, Smellie andMcKenzie. In London young Shippen livedwith John Hunter and worked in his homeand in W illiam Hunters Theatre in CovcntGarden, the Great Windmill Street Schoolnot being started until 1768. He bec
Annals of medical history . o the foundation of the firstmedical school in the American Shippen, Sr., impressed with theadvantages—denied to him—of a Europeaneducation, and following the growingcustom of the time, in 1758, sent his son,Wilham, who had already studied physicwith him for four years, to London to studyanatomy with John Hunter and obstetricswith William Hunter, Smellie andMcKenzie. In London young Shippen livedwith John Hunter and worked in his homeand in W illiam Hunters Theatre in CovcntGarden, the Great Windmill Street Schoolnot being started until 1768. He becameclosely acquainted with the talented WilliamHewson, three years his junior, and thecelebrated Quaker physician, John Fother-gill, who had already evinced great con-structive interest in tJie Quaker settlementof Philadelphia and especially in the newlyfounded (Quaker) Pennsylvania Hospital,the oldest general hospital in this discussed with both Shippen andJohn Morgan, the desirability of estai)lish-. JoHN (1712-I780) ing a medical school in the colonies, andprobably had this in mind when, in 1762, hemade his famous present to the Pennsyl-vania Hospital of the eighteen anatomicalviews and three cases of models. The story of this gift and its influence on medicaleducation has been so fully told elsewhere-^that it need not be repeated here. Shippen, after finishing his course underCullen and Munro secundus and gettinghis degree at Edinburgh,-^ returned toPhiladelphia in May 1762, and the sameautumn began the successful course of ana-tomical lectures, which continued untilinterrupted by the Revolution in 1777. Inthe Pennsylvania Gazette of November 11,1762, he issued the prospectus of hislectures, of which the introductory lecturewas given at the State House on the lectures were given in a buildingerected for the purpose in the rear of hisfathers residence on Fourth Street, andwere doubtless largely based on the curiousAnatomical
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