The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-10-16
the neo,cAl COLLEGES.

CoLLEoR or PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. Tho opsnina
exercises FOR the regular winter session Of the College &
Physeians aad Surgeons medical department Of Colsn
biz College, took place last evening In tho large ha q
the College sdhcs The corner Of Twenty sess
and Fourth avenue. The room was welI oiled. there
being about three hundred students already satssH.
Some few ladies gaced the occasion. The venerable
President, Edward DeiAdsld, r. D. presided On intro
ducng Professor st. John, Who 70 deliver tho intro.
ducsoy address, PRECEDENT Delaneid referred briefly
las. fsw years. C citing the mortality o. sSs
recent epldemic - compared with that Of prsvieas
visits q indicative OF the Development OF the profs.
son exhibiting IL efcisncy In the prevention ~ wUl
Of the dssass He further referred the gross
lessons learned in the experience Of the late war in the
taton Of sick and wounded systemaxcd treatment e
great numbsrs and sanitary precautions Professor S
John who the Professor of Chemistry Of the faculty,
read an eloquent paper on the Of the study o
physical science means of attaining proper dsc,-
plns o. mind training the intellect and nnng the future
probation OF the problems Of disease which
he win be called upon TO comprehend and decide. me
throughout, occupied about hour In il delivery The
order OF the different clinlques in the college and
read BY the Secretary Of tho Faculty Dr. Dalton afser
which the exercises closed with prayer The regular
course Of lectures commences to-day.
TEE UMvznrr MEDICAL CoLIEGE-The room in the
City Hospital now corrupted the lecture room OF the
medical department Of the University Of New York was
the lecture Introductory to the winter course delivered
by Professor John ". Draper After prayer BY The
Rev Isaac Ferris Chancellor Of the University Processes
Draper gave address medicine social and ndi-
vdual science As social science he showed how The
development Of the sciences medicine included had noe
only been the means OF preserving human life whea
called into being but OF actually increasing the
number Of such lives When William the Conqusror
invaded England the population Of that island may b
estimated Il two million persons. In the reign
Of William Ill IL had reached about i've mii1
these tvo sovsregns there elapsed six hundred
years Turning from our ancestors TO ourselves
We find our population has doubled every twenty
i've years This fact must be profoundly interesting to
every thoughtful psrson but more especially to every
physician. Oh but II Is said that immigration win
account for that To that will give you two answers
Frsf-L0ok II the condition OF the African the
South. With the abolition OF the slave trade 1908 the
importation Of negroes absolutely ceased Yet from
1910 TO 1880 they doubled in about every twenty
years But prcferrng 70 look At Ear sepa-
rate from ourselves may loos nj European an
cesra stock. In 1901 the population OF England VIZ
10, 500 o00 II doubled 10 forty years That Is no& 20
rapid ncreass ourselves; but England iost byr
emigration In forty fifty ycan l,500 600 souls: NJ
gained In precisely the ratio Thus We begin 70
see there " something more Indicated by thcss fnrts
than immigration will explain The Doctor continued hia
address IT considerable length introducing many yaiu-
able thoughts which were listened TO with grsas
aftenf ION