The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-01-23
College OF Phys,c,ans and surgeons.


The new edice ON Fourth avenue, corner Of Twents-
third street, erected for the Of this institution,
nausurated last evening with appropriate exercises
The clinical lecture completely filled vth;s
mixed audience Of professional and other gentlemen
gether with ladies' and others neresten the prosperity
Of the school
Dr. Thomas Cock Vice President Of the College intro
duced Rev. DR.. Nermilyea who opened the exercises
with prayer after which DR.. Cock having alluded the
condition OF The institution and welcomed the audience,
announced Professor Deafeld who to oeiiver the
inauguratory address. The learned Professor said
he congratulated the college having length found
home worthy Of it, The occasion brought 10 his mind
the edifce in which the first medical institution
building only twenty -fvs wide. At that tire New
York numbered barely 100 600 inhubitan now il con-
tanned eight times that population and this college had
increased in equal ratio. In the year l76S Columbia
College established and medical department
organized wlth able corps of professors although its
means for practical clinical inst rucoa very
limited. The following year DR.. Samuel Bard induced
The medical profession and Others to in the
top OF hospital, and the proposition favorably
received but The revolutionary nerfered with the
perfection OF the undertaking. and il until
1871 that such INSTITUTION be fourd ia the cy
on the 30 Of January Of that year. the New York Hosp
tai first The also had effect TO DIS
Ierse the me dcai school" nut III the sane year Dr. ho
meyne set foot similar school in connection with
he University Of New York. and proposed to give the
pupils the advantages Of clinical instruction The fol
lowing year Columbia College again succeece6 in the
establishment Of medical branch. The irst grant
made any college Of This kind 1897 when the
Legislature CAV. $500 year for the preservation and
enlargement Of Q cabnet imported by Prof Post from
Europe. AT this time the New York County Nedca, so
ciety memoriazed the Legislature for the foundation Of
the College Of fhyscians and Surgeons and
tanned by Dr. Romeyne. The attempt was successful
and the Society uamed Trustees of the College
pu. huosequeht events proved tha TINS was TOO ponoer
GUS booy to secure the success OF the enterprise and
the number of trustees refused Or. Romeyne was
the first President of rbe institution and the number
students at the rs session was fifty three. The school
increased but few years after its organization Difficult
ties in the Board of Government, and it lost
ground when the Board Of Trustees was agan
ICED Rival schools were established, but the conpe
titon favorable to netner, and New YorA was
compelled to give way to Philadelphia in the con-
test for superiority in this respect. In 1914 a
union effected between this college and the medical
department OF Columbia College and the new organiza-
ton SUSTAINED by the state.
lr Delsfcld here alluded TO Dr. Post The Professor of
Anat. my in the lew institution highly skful aud
successful and the frat Hgated the
carotid artery in this country He also spoke OF rofes
Hussey copteu porary Of Professor Post in terms
Of respectful euogy.I After years prosperity
dissenson again sprung up between the faculty in
and the COVE of the college &C ,cunt
Of the interference Of the County Medical Society and
the Professors were moved by it that in 1926 thew
resigned their respective chairs unanimously The re-
sgnations accepted and the vacancies filed but the
revolution proved most unfortunate. The Legsla ure
had previously made grants OF $50 COO and $50 600 to
the institution but it in the form Of lottery specua
tons which could not be made Immediately available,
$40 COO wne its resources were not more than $4,000
At length harmony was again restored, Faculty
appointed and great unanimty hA since exist
ed between the instructors and trustees. The latter
board again reduced to the number Of twenty-five
twelve OF whom are 10 be selected from he medi-
cal profession, and the others from various de
partn,ents Of business The new board of instruc
tors entered upon the discharge of their duties in
November 1890 bu not without opposition for another
institution Immediately chartered under the
Of Ringers College, which located in Duane street
It's existence vas however, comparatively brief and the
college which TO night iDaugurates its home con
,nued to prosper. The to the advantages
which the metropolis offers to medical studentsto the
example afforded by the history Of this scaoo that
petition developes the energies and resources in this
In other fields Of labor-and expressed tho hope that all
the medical col eyes the city might share in tho
perity which had attenoed this The remaining history
Of the institution of quiet labor aod successful
effort Thirty years OF harmony had only been disturbed
by The hand Of death. Drs Dana, Becs and Bartlett,
former Instructors alluded to in feeling manner
In connection with the oppor tunihes offered by this
school, the lecturer spoke OF the improvements which
had been made in the healing art. Meiicne had kept
pace with other sciences Were II not strange IT, with
all the improvements in other departments Of labor
dicne alone had sosd stlS Forty years ago disc sse
looked upon ne wild beast to be drenched out of
the ainentary cara by violent pugation starved ont
Ct the blood But, a. tteopgians MAINTAIN that true
church has always existed know that there have
alsays been truly scientific in the medical
profession Such the late Dr. Samuel Bard.
Tie speaker nDst offer few words OF welcome 20 tue
Students VINO we're 70 pursue tneir studies 10 the new
ed fec. Their calling vas labnrious, and doubtless
many Of them might struggle against the world while
price succeeded. But the consciou ness Of
having preserved wife husband children TO their
parents moe satisfactory than pecuniay aygran3e.
menH Mercantile subject pecunia v los e.
ontning mental anxiety and suffering snknour To- the
medical profession Military ctieftans inventors OF On
gines Of uction to their fellow men aud Others Of
similar character win lame but also have sources Of
triumph nDd sef corg atuia ion.
A ponedictop then pronounced By Dr. yarnnilyea
End after general ipsrec ion Of the edfce and ts va
dous apartments, the audience retired.
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