American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1824-02-27

it would be doing very great injustice to the SPLEEN.
dtd talents of that Gentleman to withhold my hum
bic tribute of admiration; he IS inferior to none,
and superior to most of those illustrious men with
whose names we are all so familiar.
Within ten yards OF the college a new building
80 ieet by 25) has been erected, to receive Pro.
lessor Pattison's Museum, which consists of up.
wards of one thousand select preparations in NOR
bid anatomy, Of great practical utility to the class
OF public teachers, and to which the students have
free In the course of the ensuing summer
an addition is to be made to the college 200 by 10;)
one part will be occupied as class room for the
Medical Professors. and the other suite Of dissect-
ing rooms attached TO The anatomical theatre, whict
the great increase OF students renders necessary In
the present dissecting rooms observed numerous
subjects, from the infant to the adult, both white
and colored. From the college crossed the street
to the Inhrmary detached from all other budngs,)
constructed IN tie most substantial manner and ca
pable OF containing 60 patients; as none are adj
mtted except those aboring under acute diseases
there is always sufficient number for clinical in
strucons four clinical lectures are delivered graf
IS every week--two on medicine and two on sur
gery--the Professors alone are, er-ofcio, the ply.
sicans and surgeons of the establishment in the
rear OF but attached to- the in6rmary is very COM
plete operating theatre; surrounded by elevated
seats for several hundred students.
from the convent Of the Sisters of Ctarty;" their
order is the best pledge of the confidence which
may be reposed in their humanity. After minute
ly examining this large and judiciously arranged
building, you may imagine but cannot describe,
my surprize, when informed that the foundation
stone was laid the 10th of June last, and the ed-
lice finished for the reception OF patients on the Goth
September 1t will naturally be asked from whence
were the funds derived for the completion OF such
rand and extensive innnrovernentp The auswer lie
the state of Maryland has made very liberal grants,
and considerable subscriptions have been collected,
exclusive ofnearly S50,0C0 advanced by the Pro-
fessors Having received az very favorable report OF
DR.. De Butts, as Lecturer and Chemist, I avail
ed myself OF his kind invitation to one OF his lee.
lures; my expectations were raised high, but
far from being disappointed ! have hesitation in
|declaring that consider him most eloquent teach
er, and his experiments were conducted with the
ease and facility Of profound Chemist. His the
are is capable of accommodating 1900, adjoining
which 10 a spacious room filled with an extensive
apparatus for chemical purposes. Nothing can be
more remote from my intention than that Of draw.
ing invidious comparisons or of wounding indvid-
ua feeling yet cannot forget the chsgrin felt at
being informed by student, and that StudeHt
aatiUe Of cur city that upwards of forty young
gentlemen are at this time prosecuting their studies
in the University OF Maryland, who attended our
medical class last session. and who removed 10 Bal
tinore for reasons which delicacy forbds me to
name. From the information which have collect
ed can have no doubt that the great increase of
Students in the University OF Maryland, is owing
to the wisdom of its Charter by resting the man.
agement Of the Institution in The Professors, and
by their liberal policy in selecting of superior
talent to fill the vacant chairs, aUhererer the reqai
site talent can be found, without regard to local
prejudices or family connections. TO these sour
ces that University may date the preeminence to
which it successfully aspires, for consider the u
University of Maryland at this moment, the Edn'
burg of the United States, with class nearly equal
in number to that Justly Celebrated school of SCI
ence,'