The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1867-09-27
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
OF
Medicine and Surgery.

THE Philadelphia Unlverity Of Medicine and Surg,
cry was organized In 1913. Chartered by the LeElsla
ture, February &c, 1865. Name changed By a logisla.
tive enastnont TO the Eclectic Medical College Of Phil.
adelphia In lS6o In 1863 1t purchased tho Pennsylva.
na Medical College, established In 1872, aud the Phil.
adelphia Medical College, which had previously been
merged into the Pennsylvania Medical College. In
1884 It ~parehAscd the Penn Medical University. The
Trustees Of the separate schools united, petitioned,
and obtained = special act oftke Legislature. consoli.
dating these institutions and changing their names 10
that of the Philadelphia University Of Medicine and
Surgery, March ", 1866. All these various acts ara
pu6lished In the statutes Of Pennsylvania. The cost
Of the building and museum was over ono hundred
thousand dollars. II viii be observed that the Uni
Ver.ity, as now organized, is the legal representative
Of the four medical colleges that IL has absorbed. IL
10 q liberal school Of medicine, confined to no dogma.
hoT attached TO any medical clique but embraces In
Its teachings everything Of value to the profession.
SESSIONS.-lt has two full sessions each yeor, com
mencing OH the LIST Of October, and continuing until
the lt Of January as Its first session, and frp,a the st
Of JanpGry to the LIST Of April as its second; the two
continuing one full course Of lectures. II has also a
summer session, commencing the lat of April and con.
uAutng until August, for the preparatory branches
such as Latin, Greek, Mathematics, Botany, Zoology,
Chemistry, Anatomy, Physiology, Otc. -
TlCkETS.-IickOts to the iull course Of lectures
Sl2S or $50 for each session; For the summer or pre-.
p~araiory course s25. Graduating fee $50, To aid
young Aeno Of moderate means, tho University has Is
sued BVO hundred scholarships, which are sold 10 frat.
course students, for SIS, and TO seeond.course students
u Vlel ~ mtn IOr ~, eaCn constituting the AOHer 4
life member, with the perpetual privileges Of the lee.
lures, and all the teachings of the school. TAe only
additional fees are = yearly dissecting and matrieula-
ting ticket, each Of which Is IS.
TIE ADVANTAGES OF SCHOLARSHIPS The
s,u9ent holding . scholarship can enter the College Il
any time during the year, attend rs long as he chooses,
and re-euter the Institution as frequently ~ desired.
IL requires no previous reading or stasy to enter the
university on scholarships, hence, all private tuition
fees are saved.
Students, BY holding scholarships, can prosecute 9th.
er business a mart os the time.
The candidate for graduation can present himself At
anytime. ana receive his degree rs soon as qualified.
In case a student should hold a scholarship aud not
% aoie 70 attend %ecturs, Il can DO transferred 10
mother, thus preventing any loss.
Parents, guardians, or friends Of studsnts wishing
to purchase scholarships for them a year or mora he.
lore their attendance At the University, eaa secure
tsem BY advancing one-hAlf the piice, and paying the
balance when tho student enters, Physicians and be.
men can beStOw great bensat mon Moor
young men, by presenting them a scholarshiu. and
thus enabling them 10 obtain an honorable profession.
The Faculty embraces seventeen eminent physicians
and surgeons The University has associated with 1t
a large hospital clinic, where every form OF medical
and surgical disease Is operated on and treated in the
presence Of tho class.
COLLEGE BUILDING The College building. 10.
oatsdin Ninth street, south Of Walnut, Is the finest in
The city. Its front Is collegiate gothic, and Is adorned
With embatleInents and embrasures, presenting q nov.
81, oell, and beautiful Appearance. The facade "a OF
brown stsne, ornamented by two towers, rising to the
Of eighty feet, and crowned with an en-.
bhiled parapet. The building contains between any
and sixty Rooms, all supplied with water, gas, and sT.
cry other convenience that modern improvement can
20 facilitate medical instruction. Only ave
scholarships will bu issued, aud as two hun.
ared and dty are now sold, those who wish TO secure
one should do 500 once. Money can DO RENTED By
sxpres', or 4 draft or check sent on any National
oank In the United States, when the scholarship viii
rrturned BY mail, signed BY the President Of the
Board OF Trustees, JOS. 8. Fisher, Esq, and tho Dean
~ the Faculty, W. Paine, II. D. All orders for sehol.
arships or ether business Of the University, should be
70 Professor W. Paine, NJ. D., Philadslphla.
Pennaylvania.