Annals of medical history . begin his course of Anatomical and Phy-siological Lectures, in which the several parts ON NNiiicH ShiiIens Anatomical LEtrruRrs were Based. on his curious collection of Anatomical wax-works, and other natural preparations; tobe continued the whole winter until the courseis completed. As this course cannot be attendedwith the disagreeable sight or smell of recentdisease and putrid carcases, which often disgusteven the students in Physick, as well as thecurious, otherwise inclined to this useful andsublime part of natural philosophy, it is hopedthis undertaking will t
Annals of medical history . begin his course of Anatomical and Phy-siological Lectures, in which the several parts ON NNiiicH ShiiIens Anatomical LEtrruRrs were Based. on his curious collection of Anatomical wax-works, and other natural preparations; tobe continued the whole winter until the courseis completed. As this course cannot be attendedwith the disagreeable sight or smell of recentdisease and putrid carcases, which often disgusteven the students in Physick, as well as thecurious, otherwise inclined to this useful andsublime part of natural philosophy, it is hopedthis undertaking will tn»tl with suitableencouragement. The Early History of Anatomy in the United States 281 Tickets to be had for the whole course at house in Second Street, Philadelphia. I cannot find whether these lectures werecontinued later, but at any rate, in 1793, the study of anatomy in Philadelphia; butit must be recognized that, though in one ofthe latest colonies to be founded, Philadel-phia was then the metropolis of the. The Fothergill Crayons at the Pennsylvania Hospital on Which Shippens Anatomical Lectures were Based. country,-^ and led the other centers in his heirs sold the collection to the Pennsyl-vania Hospital as an important addition totheir museum. At that time they consistedof eight wax models, ninety-three dried andsixty wet preparations. Chovets per-sonal peculiarities and anecdotes about hisjovial disposition have been so welldescribed by Packard-^ and others thatrepetition here is unnecessary. It may be thought that undue attentionhas thus far been paid to the progress of medicine as it did in various other this is recognized by other thanPhiladelphians is shown by the followingquotation from one of the most charming ofour medical essayists,^ lost to us, alas, inhis prime: Many (Massachusetts Doctors) went toLondon and Edinburgh, but more Hocked tothe Philadelphia school. The foundation of theHar\-ard Medical School in 1782b y no means 282 Aiui
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