New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-06
THE woMENS MEDICAL COLLEGE.
ADDRESS by DIR. BALL.

The Women's Medical College of the New
York Inrmary at No. l2s secondave, has been estab
shed about two years The plan Of instruction is to
cure graduation of studies through the three OF
the students The students are required to at
tend three Winter sessions During the first they have
been occupied with the elementary branches Of Anatomy
Physiology, Materia Medca, and Chemistry with pfacr
teal work In the Medicine, Surgery, and Obstetrics.
Hygiene will also be taught All students required
TO attend weekly rectaons in the studies proper TO
their yearthese rectatons forming essential part Of
the course. - Yearly examinations are held at
the close Of each Winters session. This pro
gressive mode of study affords MUCH tims uuu
facility for practical Anatomy and Pharmacy
!; h expected that about 40 students will attend this
year Last evening an intelligent company OF ladies
and gentlemen assembled IN the Pat9Is y Ie INSTITUTION
a. Ball delivered the address which engaged the close
attention Of the audience; Mr. Samuel Winet' Pres,
prayer by the Rev Dr. Kellogg DIR Ball said that each
Of the natural SCIENCES contributes TO the development OF
every other and at last medicine has shared In the gen.
era impulse and IL has now entered an era OF restless
activity s % Of II sSSh spS
place 10 the observer OF to-day The reproach OF
iaSoIed than advancod,S is daily losing IT'S force
The rapid accumulation OF facts gives TO the pursuit Of
the other proiess5ns The lawyer viii always lind
ample scope for his genius and learning solving the in
men, and the clergyman in penetrating and applying TO
human want those divine mysteries before which angels
for truths IL takes less pleasure in the application
Of familiar truths than in the discovery OF those hitherto
unknown Hence study and the practice Of profess
son afford an absorbing interest which fully justhe the
opinion Of Goethe when he said - Most OF my fellow
baarders medical students There, sS 10 well known
the only students who zeaousy converse about tr
studies and profession" Much might I've said touching
the Importance Of each branch OF study Com
posing the collegiate course; but the neglect
of chemistry and Of the physical scioAcos IL
common among medical students that
desire call particular attention TO the intimate
hecon OF this department of knowledge with the pro
gess OF medicine The current OF scientific thought is
setting Ia that direction and medicine can hope for more
from that quarter than from other r James Simp
has expressed the hope that by tne application OF
the time will come before long When physicians shall
look upon the Of diseases simply series Of
chemical problems and formula when they shall melt
move them by surgical operations; when they shall be
able stay the ravages Of luterce blot out fevers and
Inflammation, and melt down morbid growths,s destroy
all mOrtlhc, organic germs and ferments, annul the
deadly infueuce OF malaria and contagious, and
by these lenRthen out the duration OF
human life, when the rapidly increasing length Of life
shall begin 20 fut that ancient prophecy, 1.-THE child
sAal die hundred years old" Sound common sense Ia al
good memory TO the acquisition OF medical science. In
closing speaker called attention TO the effects Of Chris
tanity medicine. The Christian idea Of the sacred
ness a human life has been tBey expressed by Novas
There SAYS he, "but Temple in the world and
that bOdyOf Nothing lie hotter than this high
form. We tOuchtheaven when We lay our hands q
body" In this great mission OF benevolence, said
DIR Ball medical men have taken an active and prOmi
ueDt part and In accordance with that quality OF mercy
which is "twice blessed blessing him that gives and hin
that takes" profession stands to-day divney com
nissOned and diyinely rewarded welcome you to 1t.
ranks with the that II you enter upon IT, and
study and practice its precepts after the example OF the
Master you will find II to he none other than the house
Of God and the very gate Of Heaven