The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1867-12-28
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
OF
Medicine and Surgery.

FNHE Philadelphia University of Medicine anu
IL Surgery was organized i'll l84S. Chartered
by the Legislature, February 20, 1913. Name
changed by legislative enactment to the hex hcitc
tic Medical College Of Philadelphia III 1901 IN
1868 it purchased the Pennsylvania Medical Ici-
lege, established in lSi2, and the Philadelphia
Medical College, which had previously oeeh
merged into the Pennsylvania Medical Coliege'
In 1864 it purchased the Penn Medical Cnlver-
sity. The Trustees of the separate schools UNI
ted, petitioned and obtained Il special act OF the
Legislature, consolidating these institutions and
changing their names to that of the Philadelphia
University of Medicine and Surgery, March d.
1865. ALI these various acts are published in the
statutes of PENNSYLVANIA. The cost of the build
ing and museum was over one hundred Thousand
dollars 1t will be observed that the University
as now organized, is the legal representative OF
the four medical colleges that 1t has absorbed
1t is liberal school of medicine confined to no
dogma nor attached TO any medical Clique; but
embraces in its teachings everything OF value
to the profession.
Sessions-It has two full sessions each year,
commencing ON the lst of October, and continnT
ing until the lst of January as its first session;
and from the 1st of January to the lst OF April
as it's second the two constituting one full course
OF lectures. 1t has also Il summer session, com.
mencing the 1st Of April and continuing until
August for the preparatory branches, such as
Latin, Greek, Mathematics, Botany, Zoology,
Chemistry, Anatomy, Physiology, etc.
Jickets.-Tickets to the full course OF lectures
$l20, $50 for each session. For the summer or
preparatory course $25. Graduating fee $:50. no
aid y0u1ag men of moderate means, the University
has issued fire hundred scholarships, which are
sold to firstcourse students for S75, and to sec
ond- course students and clergymen for $50,
each constituting the holder life member,
with the perpetual privileges of the lectures,
and all the teachings of the school. The only
additional fees are yearly dissecting and ma
circulating ticket, each Of which is %.
The .4deantages of SchoJar&hips,-rhe student
holding a scholarship can enter the Colege al
any time during the year, attend as long as lie
! chooses, and re-ent9r the institution as ire
quently as desired.
| It requires no previous reading or study 10 en-
| ter the University on Scholarships; hence, al
private tuition fees saved.
Students. by holding scholarships, can prose
cute other business part of the time.
The candidate for graduation can present him
self at any time, and receive his degree as sool
as qualified.
and not be able to attend lectures it can be trans
| ferred to another thus preventing any loss
| Parents guardians, or friends OF students
wishing to purchase scholarships for them a yea
or more before their attendance at the tnlver
! sity can secure them by advancing one-half thu
price, and paying the balance when the studen
enters. Physicians and benevolent men can be
stow great benefit upon poor young men, b} pre-
senting them scholarship, and thus enabling
them to obtain an honorable protess1on
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sicians and surgeons. The University has asso
ciated with it large hospital clinic, where ever
form of medical and surgical disease is operated
on and treated in the presence of the class.
College Building-The College building locat
ed in Ninth street, south of Walnut; is the hnes
in the city. Its front is collegiate gothic, ana
adorned with embellishments and embrasures
presenting a novel, bold and beautiful appear
ance. The faeade is of brown stone, ornamente
by two towers, rising TO the elevation Of eight
feet, and crowned with an embattled parape
The building contains between fifty and slxt
rooms, all supplied with water gas, and ever
other convenience that modern Improvement ca
contribute to facilitate medical instruction. Oh
ly FIVE hundred scholarships will be issued, an
as two hundred and fifty are now sold those wh
wish to secure should do so at once. None
can be remitted by express. or a draft or chet
sent on any National bank in the United State
when the scholarship will be returned by mai
signed by the President of the Board of Trustee
JOS. S. Fisher, Esq, and the Dean Of the Facult
w. Paine, NJ. D. All orders for scholarships
other business of the University should be a
dressed to PROFESSOR w PAINE, NJ ~,
Iune S-59l PHILADELPHIA,