The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-06-13
Insus~rssae. 81 INC Lsng Island College Hoo

Inaugurataoa - me Lsng Island College Hos-
pstaI.
Tho nAagurseoa festival OF the above insttstim tesa
place Thursday evening In the Athen@um Atlantic street
Brooklyn, and was attended BY numerous and highly
respectable company comprising the leading members e
the Protestant Presbyt aad Roman Catholic churches
Tables were laid for thres hundred usrsous sea
about two hundred and my sal down 70 dinner Ia The
oommodous concert room OF the building band vss
stationed In the ladies' gaery, and played some popular
and pleasing airs during tho evening. Mr. Samuel slsap
presided. Archbishop Hughes occupied q seat On tss
right Of tho chairman, and Dr. J. Franois OF Nav Yor
on his ien Amongst those present wsre Aroh
bishop Hughes, Rev. NJ. Nuttiag, DR.. J. II.
Wood, Roy. Dr.. storn, s. B. Chtteadss, ESQ Rev.
DR.. vnsoa. Rsv. Mr.. schlioman, Rsv. Mr. Tsr-
ley, Rev. DR.. Haritng Q. Tracy, ESQ., Thos o'G rmsu
Esq, Rev. W. q. Aburn. Rev. M Prime Mr.. s.rauahaa.
Police Commissioner, g. ". socum, Esq, r. r. Bsrdsa.
Esq, r. l. Dellsser, Esq Charles Chrstmas ESQ. s. w.
slocum, Esq., Mr.: L. b. Wyman (vice President OF tho
New England Sociesy) chairman Of tho Committee OF Ar
engagements, and several other loading mercantile ana
clerical gentlemen.
Tho Rev. DR.. vISror offered up prayer, full jusaes
having been done TO the repast
Archbishop HUGHns offered brief prayer.
Tho CHAIRMAN then addressed the company and stated
s n owed 10 ots
TO tho philanthropy and Cnrist,an kindness Of some
friends and the Legislature havng BY an .ot Of inOopo
ration authorized the establishment in the city
OF Brooklyn Of hospital the regents Of
the present Institution, with the assistance aad
Island College Hospital was proposed to furnish
hospital with n In and out door department for the teat
ment Of meaca Gases; lying-in department Tor To.
poor and unfotunate corps Of regularly educated and
licensed Duises and college where all the branches Of
medical science shall be taught and illustrated and
long since boon appaeot that the interests OF humanity
as we'll ~ science called loudly Tor lyingu institution
IN the Sour Of re ont % bs osc %
the institution the Board had purchased sthe Perry
property" consisting OF fourteen lots OF ground.
located On Henry Pacific and Amity streets, with
tensve buildings, admirably adapted for the pur pose.
In England France Germany and country is haa
boon practically idemoussrated that a hospital where
medical education was not carried very rapidly de-
generated and failed 10 IepreseDt the average
standard OF medical SCIENCE whilst colleges without hos
aud produced unframed and unequal to the pracc
demands Of the community. Aad he might resd from
science Of chemistry, too, ia SO neglected among us
that criminal trial hers must depend analyses made
1 With ,Or IN os s nw TS 20 sse
servicnt 70 the cause OF educatop by training 10
practical acquaintance with their profession, that tho
hospital L. combined with medical college. The mod
cal gentlsmen attached to the institution do receive
any remuneration for their servces Too science u
tiers Of the globe and in order to msiutan that high
order which Il ct present held thoy should have hospitals
attached TO their medical cole ges &c would therefore
call their attention to the first toast, and hoped thsy
would give bumper-"0ur ton, whose prinni
pie is charity, whose aim is the relief OF human suffer
success"
tho toes. was received with aubounded applause.
Tho oHAmMAN thea gave in tho absence OF she Mayor,
"rhs City OF Brooklyn"
Mr.. s. B. CarrESpEN responded, and alluded 10 the
prosress Of the city OF BROOKLYN which he oonsde~ed
the first In the world and highly euiosised Its cizsns
and those appointed 70 watch il municipal and To-
sislatvo Affairs He alluded to tho number OF Institutions
which the citizens OF Brooklyn had established. Net
long ago they had met there in that hall esA ssn
college for this education Of the young aud nigh. taey
assembled 70 norgursse IN institution for the hsneet q
the nd DOOR.
The CHAIRMAN Ihen geve Brooklyn City Hospsal-tse
elder OF our city charities IL there be any smua''oa
The reverend DR.. FARLEY responded IN . neat and ap
proprAtc speech.
not ovisaoe by land, or religion" To which
Dr.. FRAsus, who was warmly received, responded in
population s' Of Brookl,n-,1o hundred al. and aiss
thousand peope-what . number, and what 81
city 70 be without . hospital They bad Degsa
70 establish In good season. but they might have
begun much earlier. lLaughter) Wha, . name they
had IT, "The Long Island Hospital" BE thoaght
Island not unknown In tho annals OF PATRIOTISM aud
she WAS we'll known In the annals OF science, medeins
surgery theology and w-(applause besides they
had many other claiming the support Of oil char
table and phlanthropc men.
The CHAmMAs then gave:--"rhe Clsrgy-ths physcsrs
to the soul-they minister the moral maadss OF man
may they be associated with the physicians tho
body In the feeling work OF the smeorAuou Of human
woe"
The toast vas cnthus as,ically responded 10.
Rev Dr. vrSTos responded ana 10 the course Of bs
in the Inauguration OF hospital but iney nevor
heard OF an naugursting church HIS friend,
said nas va not arr and Verh.ps :. ssoos as,
advantage OF the position which he had he would
affirm that they heard OF hospital being fouode
before ChrGAnty, of the heather inaug rating
one He concluded by mpressicg MEDICAL proses-
sion shut the The clergyman VINO hsA
come 10 70 visit the poor patient, no matter What hb
Tho next toast drank was. "rhe pcor-onen the roa
In Intelligence and vrsare Since tney are always 70 be
min In
Improvement mental moral and ply scal and feel that
10 u more blessed 70 give than 10 receive"
The toes, was duty honored.
Archbisnop HuGuKs responded, and presenting him
self most enthusiastically received, the entire coon
they had all heard than Of apparently COZ
Trajectory assertion described under the common torn
Pride aud Poverty ana he was sorry that these words
we're nos always employed In socisy Ia tone OF fech,g
~ charitable ~ they might be. But he thought thAs
those two Ideas hsd never been more intimately blended
thar they were 10 bis heart q. tina; momentPride ana
Poverty" He had been nosored with the Obligation q
responding for the poor aud when ne whose
legacy the poor was, he thought he should be proud
10 speak In their name. (cnesr.) There was NO
toast In The many excellent that be heard
be presented that evening" that could be 90
nseripg 70 aim ~ tho toast OF the poor He might ssv
thai whilst he had been nearly twenty years neigh
bsrng cay either from want OF inclination want ofye
sure or other he had seldom accepted
more tban once Of being present occasion Ike
but having heard OF the intention 10 establish hosp
tai and thai was about 10 have feature which no
should Ike 10 incorporated every other charitable
or phiapthropic corporation. viz that their doors
were NOS 70 os closed against the physcisn OF the soul
(cheers)-or no line was IN be drawn between
any class Of Gods creatures, and tha, the visit
o. the physician OF the SOUL no matter vhs,
his creed might be- should not be met win froun %
the counieDances Of their jsnors, he gladly accepted
their invitation There was another thing, rather
bnaon OF circumstances, that urged hin approve Of
The undertaking and hope for its There
blending OF charity and hsmanity oombsed 10 the pur
poses OF The usttutien-,he mprov emeui OF medical
science UPON when society depended for the aleviatoo
OF the mseres and pains OF this life hal been his Toe
70 Gavs, through many Countries, and he never vosA
pitss OF the Continent bad made upon his mind rhe
reverend gentleman then described the hospital n Lyons
which nearly i've hundred feet in length and oss
similar IN Nsplee, where the patients property
cared for and where learned the medical proessio0
rom then youth-serviBg an apprenticeship 70 IT, He
also spoke OF the system o medical education adopted in
France and eoquenty described the charitable hospitals
IN that country Amer speaking at length on the great
benefit the hospital would confer the poor, ths
rend gentleman concluded syshopng that their ers