The Opelousas courier., 1867-07-27
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
OF
Medicine and surgery.

FEHHE Philadelphia University of Medicine and
Il Surgery was organized in 1913 Chartered
changed by legislative enactment TO the Eelee-
tic Medical College of Philadelphia in 1850. In
1868 it purchased the Pennsylv lvania Medical Col
lege, established in 1872, and the Philadelphia
Medical College, which had previously been
merged into the Pennsylvania Medical College.
In 1864 it purchased the Penn Medical Cniver-
sity. The Trustees of the separate schools uni
ted, petitioned, and obtained special act of the
Legislature, consolidating these institutions and
changing their names TO that of the Philadelphia
University of Medicine and Surgery, March Is,
1863. 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 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. ~2f +
Sessioas--It has two full sessions each year,
commencing ON the LIST of October, and continu-
ing until the LIST of January as its first session,
and from the lst OF January to the lst of April
as its second the two constituting one full course
of lectures. It has also a summer session, com
meneing the LIST of April and continuing until
August, for the preparatory branches, such as
Latin, Greek Mathematics, Botany, Zoology,
Chemistry, Anatomy, Physiology, etc. affa
Tfekets.-Tickets to the full course of lectures
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preparatory course $25. Graduating fee $50. To
aid young men of moderate means the University
has issued tiee hundred Scholarships, which are
sold to frst-eourse students for $75 and to see
ond-eourse students and elergymen for $50,
each constituting the holder q life member,
with the perpetual privileges of the lectures,
and all the teachings of the school. The only
additional fees are a yearly dissecting and ma
circulating ticket, each of which is $5.
The Advantages of Scholarship ips.-The student
hn1Iippr as.hn i'm cnp fpr the fnf1aua nf
any time during the year, attend as long as he
chooses, and re-entar 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. es#
Students, by holding scholarships, can prose
cute other business a part of the time. e--x-
The candidate for graduation can present him
self at any time, and receive his degree as soon
as qualified.
In case student should hold a scholarship
and not be able TO attend lectures, it be trans
ferred to another, thus preventing any loss.
Parents, guardians, or friends of students
wishing to purchase scholarships for them year
or more before their attendance at the Univer-
sity, can secure them by advancing one-haf the
price, and paying the balance when the student
enters. Physicians and benevolent men can be-
stow great benefit upon poor young men, by pre-
senting them scholarship, and thus enabling
them to obtain an honorable profession. ssgt.
The Faculty embraces seventeen eminent ply
sicians and surgeons. The University has asso-
ciated with it large hospital clinic, where every
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 finest
in the city Its front is collegiate gothic and is
adorned with embattlements and embrasures,
presenting q novel, bold and beautiful appear
ance. The facade is of brown stone, ornamented
by two towers, rising to the elevation of eighty
feet, and crowned with an embattled parapet.
The bailding 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
ly five hundred scholarships viii 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 remitted by express, or a. draft on. check
sent on any National bank in the United States,
when the scholarship will be returned by mail,
signedhy the President of the Board Of Trustees,
Jos. s. Fisher, ESD, and the Dean of the Faculty,
W, Paine, NJ. p. All orders for scholarships or
other business of the University should be ad-
dressed to % PROFESSOR w PAINE, NJ D.,
Dune S--5al9ta 49, z Philadelphia, Pa.