The New York herald., 1851-10-30

improvements IN New York

FACULTY OF THf i,lvERsIrY OF NEW YORK.
We have visited tn splsndid edif,s which has
been erected by the Meiical Faculty Of the Univer'
xty of New York situ ted in Fourteenth street, be-
tween Irving place an the Third avenue We con
slider this college ornsmea at to the city, and
~ our readers st distance may be curious to be
informed as to the in, arrangements of q medi
eel csllege, we have pr pared the following brie'
description fthe buuaing.
The situation for ils location of the college has
been most judi ,iousy oected. Fourteenth street,
from its great wild n from its central situation,
Is unquestionably tns oest that could have been
chosen by the Facu. Its vicinity to Union
Park, the NEST beau al portion Of the city, and
to the Bellevue Hosp. one Of the largest hospi-
tails in the world, aJis its recommendations. The
design of the college building, without being
highly ornau ental, chaste and appropriate. The
edifce is 65 feet il fl by l20 feet in depth. In
the basement story aere on the right, a hand
some suite of apartiuents tor Mr.. Charles Polman,
the gentlemanly Janitsr; and very handsome hall
for the assembling o tns students, in which every
comfort and accommodation is provided. On the
left, large room, oy DR. Aylett for the exami
nation of Students ga bling hall for patients
who come to be preser bed for and operated on at
the medical, sur .I and obstetrical cliniquss,
which are held b. r-5iessors Bedford, Post AMI
Clymer. three tine egery week; a drug shop for
preparing medicines Faculty m ost literally fur
nishing to the pats1ts medicine gratuiiousIy, Gel
lars, sc. SC.
Situated a. tb. task Of the building, and
connected immed ~ita the assembling hall for
che students is grsri stair case, y feet in dame
ter. for the passag, W he pupils to and from the
different lecture rools This staircase may be ap-
proached in three either through the eentra
passage of the bls- -ent, or through the yards,
whish occupy 80 tee each side of the building,
which are to be assi ged IS gardens, and which
allow ample light a.o ventilation to the college,
placed in the centre rhe first floor is approached
by a handsome fig n Of steps, which terminate on
a broad platform. o. entering the building you
pass into very large nail, which, from the height
of its ceiling and from me elegant staircase situated
behind, presents q most imposing appearance.
On the left Of this all there Is spacio As apart
ment, used as a Faculty room for the assembling OF
the members of the Faculty. Passing on from this
there is the private room for Professor Oiymer,
Professor of the Institutes and Practice of Medicine,
by which he can have direct access to the lecture
room, in which be delivers his lectures On the
right Of the hall there another room, which COR
responds in every respect TO that used a. the acrty
room This is used Dy Profes Paine, as his pri-
vate study, and tor tue exhibition OF his extensive
Museum of Matera Medica, &c. his apartme ut
which occupies the back part Of this floor. We
have visited many lecture rooms, but, we must
confess have never seen one so perfect IN all It's
arrangements On the south side, in the centre,
there is elevated platform for the chair OF the
professor, and on eacn side, doors which communi-
cate with the private rooms OF the Professors OF
Materia Mediea and Tner speu,cs, AID OF the lnsti
tu.es ard Practice OF Medicine, who lecture In It !;
and rising In front, are comm0dous Sc ats for the
students In the of the north OF this lecture
room large folding doors are placed, oy which the
pupils enter from Inc grand stair case already de-
scribed, and descend by the two gangxays, from
which the seats pass of
Passing up the grand staircase from the hall in
'front.' you reach tae landing OF the second story OF
the building In front Of this landing you enter oy
folding doors, noble room, which occupies the
whole breadth Of the building, and is twenty feet In
the ceiling. This room is occupied as Museum
ofComparative Anal any and Natural History, and
contains the ~ LIicent collection OF the Lyceum
of Natural History B. door situated on the left
of this landing, you introduced into one OF the
private rooms Of Professor Draper, President Of the
Faculty and Professor Of Chemistry and Phys-
oloey. This apartment communicates with the
platform Of the Chemical Theatre which, in It's d.
mensions its entrance fr the students, and the ar
angeu ent of its seats, corresponds exactly With che
ecture room below. On the back part OF the plat
orm behind the Professor. he addresses his audi
nce the whole side OF the room is filed with cases
containing chemical apparatus, with the exception
Of the centre, which is occupied by furnaces and all
he other appliances which have lately been intro
duced for the illustration Of modern chemistry The
extent and the conveniences Of the laboratory Of
the Professor Of Chemistry and Physioogy, are, we
venture to assert, unsurpassed.
Ascending the principal staircase, we arrive at
the floor Of the third story, In front We have, in
the centre, folding doors, which open into the Ma
serm OF Human Anatomy, hall which is the SCUM
tefpart Of the museum room on the story below.
On the left Of this landing the private room Of Pro-
iessor Bedford is situated, and, behind, you enter
passage which occup es the centre, and from which
three doors pass OF Those on the right and the
In tuta laFg into uhl nj
ing cases selected by the clinical professors, from
the patients assembled in the waiting room in the
basement, wait until they introduced by the
Professor, daring his clinical lecture, which takes
place in the anatomical theatre 70 the observation
ofthe students The door going od from the centre Of
this passage the entrance for the Professor the
Anatomical Theatre, lecture room which far sur
passes anything We have ever seen. IL Is amphithea
trica In It's arrangement. Ia the centre Of the
there large circular area, where stands the table
which the OBJ sets TO be demonstrated are placed,
and behind whi.h, in full view Of hs audience, the
Profeszor stands From this the seats are arranged
in oirces with rapid elevation, so that those Who
are ated in those fsIthest OF, have perfect view
Of the most minute objees demoastra,ed ~ yea. 70 mem
ferns an elevated dome, In tAe centre OF which
there Is a large cupola, the lights OF wnisn are
ground glass, and from shich food OF soitened
light Is shed on the area below. The height Oh the
osiling from the Aoor Of the TO the centre OF
the dome, il forty-ive feet. Passing Oh from the
waiting room, on the right OF the passage, on the
north, Is the private study OF the PROFESSOR o ana
tony Professor Pattson. and on the south, bis prl-
vste dssecting room; and passing Oh from the wait
ing room, on the other side, are apartments
20 be used wards, shere patients who have
had serious surgical operations performed on
them By Professor Post, can be nursed until they
can with safety return home From the great
height of the ceiling Of the Anatomical Theatre,
that portion of the story OF the building not occu-
pied BY IL Is divides into two stories--the first Of
which Ia occupied by the Anatomical Museum, the
private rooms Of the Professors Of Anatomy and
Midwifery, waiting rooms por patents, &c., &o.,
AZ before described The other, in front, s sppro-
priated 70 dissecting room, which IN size ceres
,onds 10 the museum rooms, and which, from its
sdmirsble light and perfect ventilation, cannot
he improved ON the right, the study Of the Pro-
fessor Of Surgery, and bis private dssectlng room