. Epitome of the history of medicine : based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. It was during the eighteenth century that a numberof our best-known educational institutions were foundedin the different colonies,—among them, Yale College,in 1701; Princeton (College of New Jersey), in 1746;University of Pennsylvania, in 1749; Columbia (KingsCollege), in 1754; and others only a little less most of these latter were established medical depart-ments, but the method of apprenticing students to phy-sicians was still in general observance, no preliminaryeducatio
. Epitome of the history of medicine : based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. It was during the eighteenth century that a numberof our best-known educational institutions were foundedin the different colonies,—among them, Yale College,in 1701; Princeton (College of New Jersey), in 1746;University of Pennsylvania, in 1749; Columbia (KingsCollege), in 1754; and others only a little less most of these latter were established medical depart-ments, but the method of apprenticing students to phy-sicians was still in general observance, no preliminaryeducation whatever, as a rule, being demanded. In 1766, 280 THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE. however, the New Jersey Medical Society ordained that nostudent be taken as an apprentice by any member of thesociety unless he had competent knowledge of Latin andsome initiation in the Greek. About the middle of thecentury Drs. Bard and Middleton, in New York, and , in Philadelphia, began giving lectures inanatomy, while at Newport. Rhode Island, Dr. WilliamHunter, between 1754 and 1756,—a near relative of the.
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