The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-12-24
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
OF
MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

TgIHE PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE
i AND SURGERY was organized in 184S. Chartered
by the Legislature, February &C. 1853. Name changed
by legislative enactment to the Eclectic Medical Col
lege Philadelphia in 1860 In 1868 it purcEas cd the
Pennsylvania Medical College, established in i642 and
the Philadelphia Medical College, which had previously
been merged into tho Pennsylvania Medical college, In
1864 it purchased the Penn Medical University The
Trustees OF the separate schools united pedhoned and
obtained special Act OF the legislature, consolidating
these institutions and their names to that OF the
Philadelphia University Of Medicine and Surgery
March Is, 1865 All these various Acts are published in
the statutes of Pennsylvania. The cost of the uding
and museum hundred thousand dollars. 1t
will be observed that the University organized is
the legal representative of the four Medical Colleges that
il has absorbed. 1t is liberal school OF medicine, con-
fined to dogma, nor attached 10 any medical cques,
but embraces in its teaching everything of value to the
profession.
Sessions-It has two full sessions each year, commenc
ing the 1s OF October and continuing until the 1st OF
January, its first session, and from the 1s OF January
to the lst OF APRIL as its second the two constituting one
full course of lectures. 1t has also summer session.
commencing the 1st April add continuing until August
for the preparatory branches, such Us Latin, Greek,
Mathematics, Botany, Zoology, Chemistry, Anatomy
Physiology. etc.
Icket-Tckets TO the full of lectures $780,
SEQ for each session. For the summer or preparatory
course S25. Graduating $50. To aid young of
moderate means the University has issued five hundred
scholarships which sold to hrstcourse students Tor
S5. aud to secondcourse students and clergymen for
$780, 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 carly dis
secting and matriculating ticket. each OF which is So
The Advantages Of fSchoarShps-The student holding
scholarship enter the College at any time during the
year. attend long he chooses, and reenter the ns
tuition as frequently as de-ircd.
II requires previous reading study to enter the
University scholarships hence all private tuition fees
saved
Students by holding scholarships prosecute other
business rart of the time.
The candidate graduation present himself at
eny tme and receive his degree soon as qualified.
In stuoent should hold scholarship and not be
IN natta
thus preventing any loss.
Parents, guardians friends of students wishing to
purchase scholarship Tor them year more before
their attendance at the University can secure them by
advancing onehalf the price and paying the balance
when the student enters. Physicians and benevolent
men bestow great benefit upon poor young men by
presenting them scholarship and thus enabling them
TO .'in an honorable profession.
The FSculty embraces seventeen eminent physicians
and surgeons The University has associated With 1t
large hospital clins whcIe every form OF medical and
surgical disease is operated and treated in the pres
encc of the class.
COLLEGE BUILpISu.-The ColisGe building, located in
Ninth street. south OF Walnut Is t: finest in the CITY,
Its front collegiate gothic and is Adorned with en-
batlements and cm5rasures, presentng novel, bold,
and beautiful appearance. The facade OF Nwn stone,
ornarented by towers, rising to the elevation OF
eighty feet, and crowned with an emoatted parapet
The building contains between fifty and sixty rooms FL
supplied with water gas, and every other convenience
that modern improvement can contribute 10 facilitate
medical instruction Only five hundred scholarships
will be issued and as two hundred and fifty are now
sold those wish to should do so at once.
Money be RENTED by express, or draft or check
scrt on any National Bank i'll the United States When
the scholarship will be returned by mail signed by the
President OF the Board OF Trustees JOSEPH s. FISHER
ESQ.,. and the Dean OF the Faculty w. PAINE, NJ. ID.
All orders scholarships or other business Of the Uni
versity should be addressed 20 Professor W. PAINE M
D. philadeirhia. Pa,