The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-11-19
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
OF
MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

rryHE PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE
i AND SURGERY Was organized In 18AS. Chartered
BY the Legislature February 26. 1853. Nar ohangec
by legislative enactment to the Eclectic ted!th Col
epe OF Philadelphia In 1860 In 1858 purcf1s "a tnt
Pennsylvania Medical college, es abshed In 1872, anc
the PhadelIhia Medical College, which had preTousl,
been merged into the Pennsylvania Medical college, II
1864 1t purchased the Penn Medical Univ RAJ y In;
Trustees Of the separate schools unted peiuoned ano
obtained special Act of the Lepis ature consolidating
these and cha ng their names to that OF the
Philadelphia University Of Medicine and surgery
March l5 1866. All these various Acts are publ he'd
the statutes OF Pennsyveria Inc cost % tne uuone
and museum was over one hundred thousand dollars. Il
will be observed that the University as now orgsnzeo
the legal representative Of the four Medical Coueges tn
Il has absorbed It Is liberal school OF medicine, con
fined to no dogma, attached 10 any medical ciques
but embraces In Its teaching everything OIL Vue W tne
profession
S.,iion,-It has two full sessions each year, commeno
ing on the lst of October and continuing until the lst Oh
January It's first session. and from tho lst OF January
TO the ls April iS second; the two constituting one
full course of lectures. It has also summer session
commencing the 1st April and continuing until August
for the preparatory branches, such as Latin, Greek
Mathematics, Botany, Zoology. Chemistry ANATOMY
TcksTckets to the full course Of lectures $780, ol
$50 for each session For tho summer or preparatory
course S26. Graduating tee $50. 10 aid young men o.
moderae means the University has Issued i've hundred
scholarships which sold to frstcourse students to
s75 and to seoondcourse students and cergymen ioi
$50 o. ch constituting the holder life member, with the
perpetual privileges of the lectures and all the
OF the school, The only additional tees are early dis
secting and mariculatng ticket each OF wnlcn is 90
The Advantages of SehoLGyshpsThe student holding
scholarship enter the College at any Tune during tne
year. attend long as he chouses and reener tao sE
tuition az frequently as de-ired.
It requires no previous reading or study to enter hi
University scholarships hence, all private tuition fse'
are saved
Students by holding schoarshps prosecute othel
business Fart Of the time.
The candidate for graduation can present himself a
any tms and receive bis degree as soon a. qualified
In case stu should hold scholarship and not bs
able to attend lectures can be Usnserred 70 anotne
thus preventing an loss,
Parents guardians friends OF students wiahtnG tc
purchase scholarship for them year or more before
their attendance at the University, can secure them BY
advancing one.haf the price and paying the osano;
men can bestow great benefit upon poor young men BY
presenting them scholarship and thus enabling them
to OBTAIN an honorable profession.
The Faculty embraces seventeen eminent phyHcteni
and surgeons. The University has associated with 1t
large hospital clinic, whs.e every form OF medical and
surgical disease 10 operated on and treated in the pres
ence OF he class
CoLLraE Bu1IDno.-Ths College building, located In
Ninth street. south OF Walnut Is the finest in the city
Its front Is collegiate gothic and Ia adorned with en-
battlements and embrasures presenting novel. oold,
and beautiful appearance. The facade Is OF brown stone
ornaraented by two towers, rising TO the Gle anon OF
eighty feet and crowned with an embatted parapet
The building contains between fty and sixty rooms, al
supplied with water gas and every other convenience
that modern improv cement can contribute to facilitate
medical in,ruction. Only Ave hundred scholarships
Will be issued, and as two hundred and hfty are now
sod those WISH to should do so at once
Money be RENTED by express. or draft or check
sent on any National Bank the United States, wAen
the scholarship will be returned by mail signed by the
President OF tho Board OF Trustees JOSEPH B. FISHER
ESQ.,, and the Dean OF the Faculty, W. PAINE, Ii. ID.
All orders Tor scholarships other business OF the Uni
versity should be addressed to Professor W. PAINE NJ
D., Philadelphia Pa.