Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-07-17
shelby medical College.


Shelby Medical College for its opening ses-
sion This Institution was chartered by the
late Legislature, and preparations wero imme-
diately made to put it in operation. The
, 8 splendid residence on the corner of Broad
and Vine streets, having been purchased,
suitable additions have been put up, and such
alterations in the main building, were
necessary, made, resulting in one of the most
commodious, as well as elegant and well ar
ranged College edifces in the United States.
We took stroll through it recently, and
were astonisbed at it's magnitude and adapta-
bility to ali the purposes and wants of a Med
ical College and Hospital. The main Lecture
room, in the first story of the west wing, is
forty-nine by fifty feet, the amphitheatre, in
the second and the room for practical anat-
omy, in the third. are of the same dimensions,
and are besides. tall and well ventilated. The
center building contains a Museum Hall, very
large, Chemical Laboratory, Library, and
Professors rooms. The east wing is the City
Hospital, in which are already number of
pauper patients. The rooms of the hospital
are large, airy, comfortable, and every way
pleasant. The advantages of having hos
pital attached to the College must be great,
to those students who have proper sense of
the Importance of clinical instruction.
The several chairs have already been filed,
with gentlemen of acknowledged skill and
ability, and of enlarged and comprehensive
views of their duty, as will be seen by the
list which is as follows:
JOHN FREDERICK MAY, NJ. D., Professor of
Al nd n,a nf
E b. HAsKINs, NJ. d., Professor of the The
ory and Practice of Medicine
JOHN p FORD, NJ d., Professor of OBJ
stetrics and Diseases of Women and Children.
THOMAS L. MADDN, NJ. d., Professor Of
Anatomy, Descriptive, Astrological, and Sur
gicsl)
JOHN H. CALENDER, NJ. D., Professor of
Materia Medica and Therapeutics.
RICHARD o. CURREY, NJ. d., Professor OF
Medical Chemistry and Medical Jurispru-
dence.
DANIEL F. WRIGHT, NJ D., Professor of
Physiology and Pathology.
Ii. M. COMPTON, NJ d., Demonstrators OF
Anatomy.
We are gratified to learn that the prospect
is already fair for a large class to begin with.
Success, however, must depend upon the ex-
cellence of the School. Noble buildings, and
all the other combinations, are nothing with
out the solid and substantial advantages of
thorough aud enlightened instruction. We
believe this important fact is fully impressed
upon the minds of the able Faculty, and that
they enlist in the work with the spirit, as well
the ability, to achieve full success. 1t is,
therefore, with feelings of pride that we
chronicle the coming Inauguration of the
school. We have no fears that it will have
tendency, by dividing the number of students
resOrting to Nashville, with the old school, to
operate against Nashville, as the point for
medical instruction in the South because
there is room enough for both, and the greater
the inducements afforded, the greater must be
the number attracted hither by them. We
are pleased to see that the Faculty of the
Shelby Medical College, do not mean to enter
into any ungenerous rivalry with their fore
runner. In relation to this subject, they say,
in their announcement:
1.-The Faculty are clear in stating. and wish
it to be understood, that they have under
taken to establish another School of Medicine
at this point in no unworthy spirit of rivalry
or desire to cripple, or to effect the destruc-
ton of the institution already in existence.
Its success is IA source of qualification 10 all
who take pride in the public institutions OF
the city and the State; and, without affectatlon,
they desire it to continue. Their object is TO
build up another institution equally worthy,
il not more SO. of patti onage; and full con-
fidence in the feasibility of the enterprise has
induced them to devote means, time, labor,
and whatever of ability they possess to the
accomplishment of this end. The compet-
ton which they expect To give to all rivals
shall be of an elevated character. To win
success they intend to afford superior facili
ties, and to endeavor to teach the
science of medicine more thoroughly than it
can be learned elsewhere. This they regard
as the only true ground of deserving success"
Let this spirit pervade both Institutions,
and Nashville will soon be able to boast of
the two most fourishing Medical Colleges in
the Union. We feel confident that il will
characterize both.
In future number we wish TO say something
in regard to the members of the Faculty who
have been selected from abroad, and who will
be invaluable accessions to the medical pro-
fession of Nashville. We have not time to do
30 this morning.
In conclusion we will add, that the regular
course of Lectures of the new school will
commence on the first day of November next. |
The preliminary course will commence on the
fourth of October.