An infirmary has recently been established in counexion with the school, designed particularly for the instruction of the students.

This institution, although it was commenced and - continued for a considerable time by the labours of a single professor, has been eminently useful in disseminating medical science in a portion of country where but few advantages had previously been enjoyed, and has sent abroad many valuable physicians and surgeons, and several who have done distinguished honour to the profession.

The College of Medicine of Maryland, established at Baltimore, is the fifth medical school constituted in the country, and was regularly organized by an act of the Legislature of that State, in 1807.

This school owes its origin to Dr. John B. Davidge, who, in 1804, commenced a course of lectures in Baltimore, on midwifery, to a class of six students. The year following he lectured also on anatomy and surgery to a class of seven students; and in 1806 to a class of nine students.

In 1807 two eminent physicians, Dr. Cocke of Virginia, and Dr. Shaw of Maryland, united in the school, and lectures were given on the different branches of medicine. The same year they petitioned the Legislature of Maryland for a charter. A charter was granted, and the school became regularly organized, by the style of the College of Medi

cine of Maryland. In 1810 the Legislature enlarged the College to a University, and gave power to annex three other Colleges or Faculties to that of Medicine, viz. a Faculty of Divinity, a Faculty of Law, and a Faculty of Arts and Sciences; and ordered that the four Colleges, or Faculties, be styled the University of Maryland.

Since the last act of the Legislature, the medical department of the University, by the influence and zeal of its distinguished founder, and the labours of other eminent teachers, has been rapidly rising into importance, and at the present time is one of the most respectable institutions in the country. An infirmary has been recently erected, in connexion with the school, for the purpose of clinical instruction. There are seven professorships; and in 1824-5 the class was composed of two hundred and fifteen regular pupils.

Besides the five medical schools embraced in the preceding account, a number, of more recent date, have been instituted in different parts of the United States; but time will not allow a detail of their individual history. A notice of the period at which they were respectively established, with a brief account of the present condition of each, will sufficiently show the rapid progress medical science and education are making in our country.

In the year 1812, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Western District of the State of New-York, was instituted by the Regents of the University of the State, and placed under the direction ofa Board of Trustees. The year following, the school was organized by the Trustees, and brought into operation with five professorships. In 1824-5, the medical class was composed of one hundred and twenty students.

In the year 1813, the Medical School of Yale College was instituted under the charter of that seminary, and established at New Haven, Connecticut. This school has five professorships. The number of medical students who attended the last course of lectures, was eighty-two.

In 1818, the Medical College of Ohio was established at Cincinnati, in that state, but has since undergone considerable changes, and for a time the lectures were suspended; but its labours have recommenced under a new charter of the Legislature, and the first course of lectures delivered after its reorganization, in 1821-5, was attended by twenty-two students. The present number of professorships is four. It has an hospital, to which the students are admitted for clinical instruction.

In 1818 the Vermont Academy of Medicine was established at Castleton, in that State, under the charter of Middlebury College. This school has

five professorships. The medical students attending the last course of lectures, were one hundred and twenty-four.

In 1818, the Medical School of Transylvania University was instituted at Lexington, Kentucky. At the time of the first organization of the institution five professorships were established, all of which have been filled. This school has experienced the most rapid growth of any in the United States. The first course of lectures were delivered in 1819, to a elass of twenty-six students. The medical class, in 1821-5, amounted to two hundred and thirty-five. An infirmary is connected with the school, which affords an opportunity for clinical instruction to the class.

In 1820, the Medical School of Maine was established at Brunswick, under the charter of Bowdoin College. This school has three professorships. Sixty students attended the last course of lectures.

In 1821, the Medical Department of Brown University, at Providence, Rhode Island, was organized with four professorships. Forty students attended the last course of lectures.

In 1822, the Medical School of the University of Vermont was organized at Burlington, and four professorships instituted. The medical class in 1824 was composed of forty-two students.

In 1822, the Berkshire Medical School was estab lished at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, under the charter

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of Williams College, of that State. This school has six professorships. In 1824 there were ninetyfour students.

In 1824, the Medical College of South Carolina was established at Charleston. In this school there are seven professorships. Fifty medical students attended the first course of lectures delivered in 1824-5. The students have the privilege of attending the practice of the Marine Hospital.

In 1824, the Medical School of Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, was established, and located at Philadelphia. This school has six professorships; and, though fully organized, has not yet been brought into operation. An infirmary is connected with the school, to which the students will be admitted for clinical instruction.*

We have, therefore, at this time, sixteen Medical Schools in the United States, besides the one recently established in this City, and which we are about to

commence.

These institutions are all organized on the same general plan, and have for their great object the advancement of medical education. And, if we can confide in the statements we have received from Europe, or in the observations made by persons who have visited the schools of both countries, those of the United States are not surpassed, either for

* See Note F.