The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-01-22
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY OF
MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

T1HE PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY OF MEDI.
CINE AND SURGERY was organized In 1848.
Chartered by the Legislature. February 40. 1853.
Nar-ie changed by q Legislative enactment to tho
Eclectic Medical College, OF Philadelphia, In 1860
In 1863 1t purchased the Pennsylvania Medical Col
ege established in i3A2 and the Philad 9Ihia Medi-
cal College, which had previously been NJ crged Into
the Pennsylvania Medical College. In 1904 1t pur.
chased the Penn Medical Univ rsi.y. The Trustees
of the separate schools united, peitioned and OBJ
tanned special Act Of the Legislature, consolidating
these institutions and cha ging their names to that
Of the Philadelphia University Of Medicine and Sur
gerry March TO- 1865 All these various Acts are pub
Iii he'd in the statutes Of Pennsylvania The cost Of
the luilding and museum was over ono hundred
thousand dollars. 1t will be observed that the Uni
versty as now organized is the legal representative
Of the four Medical Colleges that 1t has absorbed
1t Is q liberal school OF medicine. confined to nc
dogmn, nor attached 10 any medical cliques, but
embraces In Its teaching everything OF value to the
profession.
Sessions--It has two full sessions each year, com
mencing OF tho 1st of October, and continuing unt
the 1st Of January, az its 2rst session, and from th
lst OF January to the 1st OF April, its second; the
two constituting full course of lectures. It hni
also q summer session, commencing the 1st April
aad continuing until August, for the preparator,'
branches, such as Latin, Greek, Mathematics, Boa'
nv Zoology Chemistry. Anatomy, Physiology. etc.
Tickes-.Tckets to the full course OF lectures S12
or $50 for each session. For the summer or pre-
paratory course S26. Graduating fee $50. 10 aid
young men oil modernte means, the University mas
6rst-courso students tor S75. and to secondcourfe
students and clergymen for $780, each constitutin 9
the holder lfo member, with the perpetual privl.
legos OF the lectures, and oil the teachings OF the
school. The only additional fees arc a early dill
sectng and matrculating ticket each Of which is ST.
The Advantages of ofSchotarshtps.-The student hold
ing scholarship can enter the College at any time
during the year, attend az long as he chooses and
re-enter the institution ss frequently as de-ired.
It requires no previous reading or study to enter
the University on scholarships, hence, all private
tuition fees are saved.
Students, by holding scholarships, can prosecute
other business Fart Of the time.
The candidate for graduation can present himself
at any tne and receive his degree as soon as quail
fed.
In case q student should hold scholarship and
not be able 10 attend lectures it can bs transferred
to another, thus preventing any loss.
Parents, guardians or friends of students wishing
to purchase scholarship for them year or more
before their attendance at the University, secure
the balance when the student enters. Physicians
and benevolent mon can bestow great benefit upon
poor young men by presenting them scholarship,
and thus enabling them to OBTAIN an honorable pro-
fession.
The Faculty embraces seventeen eminent physi.
clans and surgeons. The University hns associated
with it large hospital clinic, whete every form Of
medical and surgical disease is operated on and
treated in the presence OF The clnss.
COLLEGE BUuDNa.-rhe College building, located
in Ninthstreet south OF Walnut is the finest In the
city. Its front is cocgiate gothic, and Is adorned
with embellishments and embrasures, presenting .
novel, bold, and beautiful appearance. The facade
is of brown stone, ornarncnted by two towers rising
to the elevation OF eighty fect and crowned with
an embattled parapet The building contains be-
tween fifty and sixty rooms, all supplied with WATER
gas, and every other convenience that modern i'm
provement contribute to facilitate medical in
struction. Only FIVE 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 remlttcd 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 Trus-
tees, JOSEPH S. FISHER, Esq, and the Dean OF the
Faculty, W. PAINE, NJ. D.. AL orders for scholar
ships or other business of the University, should be
addressed to Professor W. PAINE, NJ. D., Philadel-
phia, Pa.