The New York herald., 1872-07-15
A Homeopathic MONUMENT.
The New Homeopathic Medical College
Third Avenuc-DcscriptiOn OF tho

The New homeopathic Medical College
on Third Avenuc-DcScription OF tho
Edifcc.
Were anything wanting to show the progress OF
homeopathy in this country the superb college just
erected on the corner of Third avenue and Twenty
third street would seem to remove any doubt. The
building, which was endowed by Mrs. Emma A.
Keep with q donation of 100000, is now ready
for occupancy. 1t has front Of fifty feet on
the avenue, and is nearly one hundred feet
deep. 1t is Ave stories high and furnished with
O Mansard roof that adds materially to its archi-
tectural effect. The ground noor is fitted for busl-
ness purposes. The first or main floor Is reached
from Twenty-third street; here are the dispense:y
rooms, which reached also by IN elevator rum
ming through the building. On the left OF the main
hail Is the prescribing room OF the Ophthalmic Hos
pital, nifty feet square and superbly furnished in
hard wood-a pharmacy. There also three
dark rooms for ophthalmoscopic and aural examina-
tions. The building IL ventilated by air shafts on
this floor library and reception rooms and an
other for the use Of the directors OF the institution
Ascending by handsome staircase, with an orna-
mental balustrade, the second noor Is reached.
Here are two wards-each 25 feet-for women, and
Q ward for men, which measures 80 by 20 feet, all
venieices. In front OF the hall is a dining room, ID
feet by 25, for those patients who are not confined
to their beds; and adjoining this are the matrons
apartments fitted with comm0dlous closets.
communicate with the Surgical Hospital. On this
Moor, and near to the matrons rooms, IL the
kitchen, furnished with range, hot and cold water
appliances and direct communication with the
elevator.
On the third noor at the head of the staircase, is
the faculty room OF the New York Homeopathic
Medical College, and on the east of this are four com
Portable wards for those patients whose win
allow them TO secure the advantages OF privacy
while undergoing treatment. In this story are tho
eating passage which will open into the surgical
hospital The main feature, however, on this noOr
is capacous lecture room, 50 feet square, the
platforms. Extending along the north wall OF this
lecture room balcony has been constructed for
visitors and others who may desire to listen to
lectures or witness demonstrations, and beneath
this private hall communicates with the staiSway
1a into s s
tory by broad space which opens Immediately
into the lecture room but which can be rendered
doors. BY this arrangement a professor may
pass into these laboratories while the students are
site preparations for his demohstrations and at
his appointed hour may Open the doors slide for
ward moysble Table, on which his apparatus .
placed, and proceed with his lecture Without delay
On the tor 6oor of this most complete building Is
commodlogs and elegant ampniinssasTs ,d dsn5sd
bic of accommodating nearly three hundred stu
dents. This lecture room is furnished with AL the
convencnces for surgical and Anatomical DEMON
Beneath the amphltheatre are the janitor's
apartments, nom WHICH speuhlnB tupus 'iiu o.nS
communicate with various portions oi tiie puiiunx-
on this noor also, IS the museum, wnlcn ~ elguy-
1--WE feet in length. with the cabinets or specimen!
built into the walls. Adjoining tns ~ sursieL
ward, twenty feet in height, lighted oy tNo large
ssy.lights and ventilated in the most perfect man.
ner. .. ...s ans
oiaaI ward ana the amphitneatre, and also bY
means of the elevator with the lower noors. a
patient may be brought in on the grounsu hoot VI
the institution sent directly to the an @
there receive the requisite attention and be placed
in his bed In the surgical ward Win put 81 sign. ,u
tHnatrc ia n room for the surgical appliances, and
above Is the main apartment Of the tower; & ,.,..
s.atn1 adlons the 0phthalmic building, Ia furnished
with ali the modern conyeniences ana % wiz be open pen
nnar W so eoor an anatomical amphtheatre and dis
sapctine room but 1t Is entrcy separated from the
other apartments ON the noor