Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-09-01

RICHMOND AND HER .MkBIGAL
SCHOOL.

Richmond Is no longer small place.
She came out of the reverses and pain
full experiences of the wsr, immensely
grown in Importance; and the pluck and
enterprise of her native citizens and the
far seeing wisdom of business men and
capitalists of other States and countries
took hold of the rich opportunities Of the
place and have rapidly made it one Of the
most important cities in the Union. Her
war notoriety had made Richmond as well
known to the world as New York or
Washington, and her people shrewd]y
banking on her fame, have ept their town
before the public by their enterprise IN
manufactures, trade, CONNER ce. railroads,
schools. colleges and pretty much every
thing else that goes to make up live
and growing town.
These observations have bee n suggested by
a perusal of the catalogue of the Vir-
ginia Medical College, and he conclusion
has come to US after readini: its prospec-
tus and seeing what this school of phys-
clans has done and what it proposes to do,
that Southern young men have here In
Virginia at Richmond, Medical Unlver-
sity equal to any in the land and with a
big future before it. Her B GARD of Visi-
tors includes some of the MOST distinguish
ed Virginians. Her faculty numbers nine,
every man of them able and well known
to the profession, and some of them among
the most skilled physicians and surgeons
in the country land the adjunct faculty in
cludes seven other prominent MEDICAL gen.
tlernen of the city, while the list of sixteen
graduates for last year shows that there
have not been wanting those who can ap..
preciate the unusual opportunities afforded
a Southern medical student here. We
speak particularly Of Southern medical
students because sectional pride leads US
to prefer to see our young men patrOnize
Southern institutions when they lose Moth
ing by 1t, and because Southern doctors
generally locate in the Sonth. and we want
to see them familiar with the diseases Pc
culiar to our climate and with the treat
ment which our experienced physicians
have found best suited to these local COM
plants.
1t is needless to say that physician ed
ucated in Northern college is not pre-
pared for general practice in the South
until he has some experience here which
may be dearly bought by his patients, an
experience which could have been acquir-
ed in the Medical College at Richmond,
in the various hospitals of the city, under
bo ~
tent medical gentle men. The want of
these clinical opportunities was what ope-
rated against the Richmond school before
the war, a want no longer existing. The
large and shiftless colored population
which In slavery were nursed and cared
for by their masters. now, in sickness Or
when disabled, fall BON tho public and
are humanely provided for in the numer-
GUS hospitals Of Richmond. Then too the
| admirable ambulance system of the Vir-
ginia metropolis, is almost hourly landing
| mutilated form from the railroads or
factories of the city. in these hospitals
| where, while receiving the best and
most skilled attention. they supply invalua-
Young men IF the South seeking this
| noble profession are beginning to realize
the advantages offered in the Medical Col
lege of Virginia and at no time in its his
tory have there, 80 early in the season,
been so many new applicants rs now,
though the session does not begin until
the first Monday in October. DR.. Jas. B.
McCaw, Professor of the Practice Of Med.
icine, is spending the present summer in
Europe, observing the advances in medi-
cine on the continent and his next course
of lectures will doubtless be all the more
interesting and valuable as result of
these observations, and We expect to sac
this college at it's next session showing
such patronage as 1t opportunities and
merits so we'll deserve, and hope among It's
students will be fouad some representa-
tives from our own Valley.