1876-77..

YEARS.

are given by members of the Faculty for the spring session. These lectures are free to those who have matriculated for the spring session. For the benefit of candidates for the primary and final examinations, members of the Faculty hold weekly examinations during the regular session, upon practice of medicine, surgery, obstetrics, materia medica, physiology, anatomy and chemistry. These examinations are free.

The aggregate annual fees for tickets to all the lectures during the regular winter session, including tickets for the clinical lectures at the Bellevue and Charity Hospitals and the College clinics, amount to $140. This sum does not include the spring recitation term. In addition to the fees for the tickets to the lectures is a matriculation fee of $5. The graduation fee is $30. The fee for dissection ticket is $10, which covers all the expenses of the dissecting-room. There is no charge for subjects, nor are there any incidental fees. There is no provision for gratuitous aid, but no charges for lectures are made to physicians of more than three years' standing, and to students of the College who have attended two or more courses of lectures."

Within the last year a donation of $50,000 from Andrew Carnegie, Esq., has been devoted to the erection of a suitable building for Laboratories and the purchase of apparatus, upon land provided on East Twenty-sixth street by the Board of Trustees and other friends of the College, a few yards distant from the College. This building in course of erection will be devoted mainly to Laboratory work in Physiology, Pathology, Therapeutics and other departments of Medicine. It will contain, in addition to the general laboratories and private rooms for original work, a large auditorium for lectures, and will be fully equipped with means for original investigations of various kinds. Statistics.

[This College was not required by its charter to report to the Regents, and no reports were received prior to the one for the Collegiate year ending February 21, 1877. The attendance and graduation since that date have been reported as follows:]

STUDENTS ATTENDING.

GRADUATES.

ENTERED SPRING CLASS

1st course.

2d course.

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The first Decennial catalogue of this College, embracing the period from 1861 to 1871, contains 1,091 names of Graduates, of whom 28 graduated in 1862; 41 in 1863; 94 in 1864; 111 in 1865; 171 in 1866; 140 in 1867; 111 in 1868; 122 in 1869; 139 in 1870, and 134 in 1871.

Besides these there were 18 Graduates who had become irregular practitioners, and whose names were omitted.

At the end of the war, in 1865-66, a large number of students who had served in the army returned to complete their courses and graduate. The classes of all the prominent Medical schools were exceptionally large for that year.

The Decennial catalogue above referred to will give the reader an extended account of the organization and early history of this College. The Faculty during this period was as follows:

Isaac E. Taylor, M. D., 1861

President.

Secretaries.

Treasurers.

Austin Flint, Jr., M. D., 1862

B. W. McCready, M."D., 1861 (Mar. to Oct.). Austin Flint, Jr., M. D., 1861

Isaac E. Taylor, M. D., 1861 (Mar. to May).

R. O. Doremus, M. D., 1861-62.

Benjamin W. McCready, M. D., 1861-72. William A. Hammond, M. D., 1872

Austin Flint, Jr., M. D., 1861

Physiology.

Anatomy.

John W. S. Gouley, M. D., 1861 (March to Stephen Smith, M. D., 1865-72.
June).

Alpheus B. Crosby, M. D., 1872-.

Timothy Childs, M. D., 1861-65.

Chemistry and Toxicology.

R. Ogden Doremus, M. D., 1861

•Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System.

William A. Hammond, M. D., 1867

THE BROOKLYN MEDICAL AND SURGICAL INSTITUTE.

Incorporated April 13, 1860, for the advancement of Medical Science, and with power to confer the degree of Doctor of Medicine. No reports received.

CAPITOL CITY MEDICAL COLLEGE (Albany).

Incorporated April 13, 1871,' with the usual powers of a Medical College, but never organized.

COLLEGE OF PHARMACY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. This institution was organized in 1829, and incorporated April 25, 1831,' by an act which constituted John Keese, John L. Embru, and those then members of an association then known as the College of Pharmacy, and such as might thereafter join them, a corporation to continue twenty-five years for the promotion of a knowledge of Pharmacy and its collateral branches. The Trustees were empow ered to adopt rules and regulations in the examination of candidates, and to grant diplomas to those who had attended two courses of lectures at the College, had studied four years with a respectable druggist or apothecary, and had passed satisfactory examinations.

Instruction had commenced March 18, 1829, but reports were not made to the Regents until 1880, when 278 students were reported in attendance, and 44 graduated. The number of graduates since 1829 had been 522. The attendance in 1881 was 335; graduates, 65. In 1882 it was 341, with 83 graduates. In 1883, there were 171 students in the first and 109 in the second course, of whom 3 were females. Graduates in Pharmacy, 60, and from the beginning, 735. The College is located at 209-211 East Twenty-third street, New

1 Chap. 364, Laws of 1860, p. 611

2 Chap. 472, Laws of 1871.

Chap. 264, Laws of 1831. By an amendment of April 16, 1832 (chap. 326), it was enacted that after January 1, 1835, no person was to be allowed to practice Pharmacy in the city of New York, unless a graduate of this school or some other, or unless examined by the censors of the County Medical Society. Further amended March 6, 1839 (chap. 52).

York city. Its charter was made permanent by act of March 20, 1856, and on the 20th of March, 1871, the limit allowed for real estate was increased from $20,000 to $100,000. The Board of Trustees was increased from seven to nine, to be elected in three classes for three years, April 25, 1878.'

This College for many years occupied rooms in the University building. Its present location is in a building formerly known as the "Memorial Chapel," which has been enlarged and fitted up for its use. It has a large herbarium, full collections in Materia Medica, and ample facilities in the way of chemical and pharmaceutical apparatus.

The course of instruction extends through two years and students are divided into Junior and Senior classes.

THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OF BUFFALO. This was a Homœopathic Institution first incorporated April 30, 1879, under the act of 1848, for the incorporation of Benevolent, Charitable and Missionary Societies, passed in 1848, under the name of "The Homœopathic College of Physicians and Surgeons."

By an order of the Supreme Court, upon application of the Trustees, which took effect July 15, 1880, the name was changed to the one given in the above heading. An act passed May 31, 1884, authorized this College to confer the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and to issue diplomas to students that had heretofore pursued the course of study prescribed by its rules and regulations, and who were found, at the examination in 1883, entitled to the degree. All diplomas formerly granted were legalized, the same as those granted by any lawfully incorporated Medical College.

This was not to be deemed in any way to legalize the incorporation of the institution, which, by a decision made by the Court of Appeals in June, 1884, becomes void.

The first term of its lectures commenced November 5, 1879, and ended February 20, 1880. The number matriculated was 33, of whom 6 graduated. The average age of graduates was a little over forty. The only report made is found in the Regents' Report of

1881.

The building used for College purposes was rented from the Young Men's Christian Association.

1 Chap. 42, Laws of 1856. Chap. 134, Laws of 1871. 3 Chap. 172, Laws of 1878.

COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK.

"To counteract as far as possible the evil influences brought to bear upon the profession, to serve the poor, and to improve medical science, several of the more enlightened young physicians formed themselves into a society, and in 1787, they succeeded in inducing the magistrates of the city to establish an apothecary shop at the public expense, and freely gave their professional services to the sick poor; in other words, they procured the establishment of what would now be called a free Dispensary. Among those more prominent engaged in this enterprise were Doctors William Moore, Nicholas Romayne, Benjamin Kissam, Wright Post and Valentine Seaman. They not only bestowed gratuitous attendance on the poor, but included therewith lectures on most of the branches of medicine, thus constituting this Dispensary the first institution connected with practical instruction in medicine under the corporation of the city. So great was their success that in 1790, more than fifty, and in the autumn of 1791, sixty medical students attended."

In January, 1791, Dr. Romayne addressed a petition to the Regents, setting forth that he had instituted a school of medicine in New York city, and praying that they would take his College under "their protection." This petition was referred to Dr. Moore, of the Board, who reported that the above-mentioned institution was well calculated to promote the general good, and that it merited the protection of the University, to be expressed in a resolution, and to be entered on their journals. If consistently no pecuniary aid could be furnished, the Board would at least appoint a committee to superintend from time to time the course of instruction given in this Medical College and report at the next meeting of the Board, as to what further provision could be made, to promote the interest of the same. Upon this the following resolutions were passed:

"Resolved, That in the opinion of this University, the abovementioned institution, for the purpose of diffusing medical knowledge, is well calculated to promote the general good, so far as it depends on this important branch of science.

Resolved, That Dr. Linn, Dr. Moore, Mr. Verplanck, Dr. Rogers, Baron Steuben and Mr. Clarkson be a committee to visit the above-mentioned school, instituted by Dr. Nicholas Romayne, for teaching the various parts of science comprehended in a course of medical education."

This was the beginning of the "New York Dispensary," which has continued its useful operation to the present time.