. Epitome of the history of medicine : based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. Fig. 42.—B. WATERiiorsE, 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 th

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. Epitome of the history of medicine : based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. Fig. 42.—B. WATERiiorsE, 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 1776Shippen was made Chief-Physician of the ContinentalArmy, 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,

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