. New descriptive handbook of the Pennsylvania railroad, and traveler's guide to the great West! . riated to the officers, pupils, tutors,governesses, &c. The grounds contain 41 acres, and the build-ings were completed at a cost of $1,993,821. The remains ofits immortal founder rest within this, his proudest mode of education and genera] conduct of the College, is instrict accordance with Girards will. Tickets of admission canbe obtained from any of the Directors ; but clergymen are exclu-ded, in compliance with a singular stipulation in the founderswill. Philadelphia is justly st


. New descriptive handbook of the Pennsylvania railroad, and traveler's guide to the great West! . riated to the officers, pupils, tutors,governesses, &c. The grounds contain 41 acres, and the build-ings were completed at a cost of $1,993,821. The remains ofits immortal founder rest within this, his proudest mode of education and genera] conduct of the College, is instrict accordance with Girards will. Tickets of admission canbe obtained from any of the Directors ; but clergymen are exclu-ded, in compliance with a singular stipulation in the founderswill. Philadelphia is justly styled the Medical Metropolis of theUnion; and the labors of a Sliippen, Rush, Wistar, Physick,Barton, Dewees, Godman, Eberle, and a host of others, haverendered its institutions famous. They are as follows : The University of Pennsylvania, Ninth street, belowMarket. • Jefferson Medical College, South street, between Chestnut andWalnut. Medical Institute of Philadelphia. Pennsylvania College, Ninth, below Locust. Philadelphia College of Medicine, South Fifch street, nearWalnut. W^^^^j^^ iifv 16 RAILROAD HAND DOOR. Homceopathic Medical Oollege of Pennsyhcmia, Filbertstreet, between Eleventh and Twelfth. Female Medical College of Pennsylminia, No. 229, Archstreet. Eclectic Medical College of Pennsylvania, Haines street,west of Sixth. Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, Lane street, above Sev-enth. Penn Medical University; Philadelphia College of DentalSurgery; Philadelphia School of Anatomy ; College AvenueAnatomical School. There is no city in the Union which presents so many advan-tages for giving a thorough knowledge of medicine as Philadel-phia, and at a cost so trifling. In addition to those especiallyidentified with the medical institutions already mentioned, thereare the following : Hospitals, &c.—Pennsylvania Hospital ; PennsylvaniaHospital for the Insane: Philadelphia Hospital, Bleckley ;Wills Hospital (disease of eye and limbs) ; City Hospital(small pox, ship fever,


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