The Opelousas courier., 1867-11-16
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
OF
Medicine AEaiTSuPgePV.

VNHE Philadelphia University of Medicine AM
l. Surgery was organized i'll 1913, Chartered
changed by a legislative enactment to the Eclec
tic Medical College of Philadelphia in 1860. Ii
1868 it purchased the Pennsylvania Medical Col
lege, established in 1912, and the Philadelphi;
merged into the Pennsylvania Medical College
In 1864 it purchased the Penn Medical Univer
sity. The Trustees of the separate schools uni
ted, petitiohed, and obtained special act of the
Legislature; consolidating these institutions anC
changing 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 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 it has absorbed
1t is a liberal school of medicine, confined to nc
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 continu-
ing until the 1st of January as its first session,
and from the 1st of January to the LIST of April
as its second; the two constituting one full course
of lectures. 1t has also summer session, COM
mencing the lst of April and continuing until
August, for the preparatory branches, such as
Latin, Greek, Mathematics, Botany, Zoology,
| Chemistry, Anatomy, Physiology, etc.
| Iickets.-Tickets to the full course of lectures
$l2O, or $50 for each session. For the summer or
preparatory course $25. Graduating fee $780, To
aid young men of moderate Means the University
has issued flee hundred scholarships which are
sold to first-course students for $75 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 S.
The AdUantages of Scholarships. student
holding scholarship can enter the College at
any time during the year, attend as long as he
chooses, and re-enter the institution as fire.
quently as desired.
1t requires no previous reading or study to en-
ter the University on scholarships hence, all
private tuition fees are 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 soon
as qualified.
In case a student should hold scholarship
and not be able to attend lectures it can be trans
1erred to another, thus preventing any loss.
Parents, guardians, or friends of students
wishing to purchase scholarships for them a year
or more before their attendance at the Univer-
slty, can secure them by advancing one half the
prce, and paying the balance when the student
enters. Physicians and benevolent men can be-
STOW STOW great benefit upon poor young men, by pre-
them to obtain an honorable profession
Ihe Faculty embraces seventeen eminent phv-
sicians and surgeons The University has asso-
Grated with it large hospital clinic, where every
form OF medical and surgical disease is operated
on and treated in the presence of the class
coHege Buihing-The College building, locat-
ed IN Ninth street, south of Walnut is the finest
IN the CITY, Its front is collegiate gothic and is
adorned with embattlements and embrasures, |
presenting novel, bold and beautiful appear
ahce The faeade is of brown stone, ornamented
by two towers, rising to the elevation of eighty
feet, and crowned with an embattled parapet. |
The building contains between fifty and sixty |
rooms, all supplied with water, gas, and every
other convenience that modern Improvement can |
contribute to facilitate medical instruction. On
~ tive hundred scholarships will be issued, and
as two hundred and fifty are now sold, those who |
wish to secure one should do so at once Money |
can be relnitted by express, or draft or check |
sent on any National bank in the United States,
when the scholarship will be returned by mail, |
signed BY the President of the Board of Trustees,
Jos: = Fisher, ESD and the Dean of the Faculty
w: Paine, NJ D. All orders for scholarships or
other business of the University should be adj
dressed to PROFESSOR w P.INE M n
June o-0ZI Pliladelnhia