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week than they could in

week than they e9pd in the places where they live
Besides the physicians who to these insti-
tutons to take postgraduate courses and 70 brush
ates attend lectures there. ! can see no advantage
to an American In going abroad u take up or to
tages offered by New-York City a journey 10
Europe for medical observation is only TO round of
eompsh by few week. Week. vs to vienna u" or herH
ta n of by foreign re ngaage IS consderab ann
counting the cost of the ocean voyages the expense
city offers the best advantages for medical study
and when that city IS seaport like New-York,
poor with us In larger numbers tnan our neghbors
In small towns and with them We have disease.
from all climes and with all sorts Of malades, and
inasmuch as the teachers in ali our colleges are
the advantage of observing all that can be seen
anywhere and more than he could see in most
And here would say that in my judgment
are are e Served ''B b nedca tac6ers The medical
teacher always makes the best practitioner
a view to curing him and exhibiting the cure, If
he has Il higher motive.
The postgraduate schools were established abo1t
fourteen years ago They are the Post-Graduate
Medical school and the New-York Polytechnic Medl-
cal School. They each have hospital in connec-
ton with the school. that OF the Post-Gradu1te
School containing as many beds either the Pres
byterian or the New-York Hospital
FAMOUS BABIES WARDS.
Connected with the POSTGRADUATE School are the
famous babies wards the first OF the kind orgl-
nizcd in this country. These wards have been pro-
nounced the best equipped places for the care Of
infants in any country. and infants are taken
there absolutely without expense their parents
and without reference to their durability long
as the cases are not contagious The hrepro0f
building also contains a dspensary where 300 poor
neople are treated annually. Five hundred and
fifty doctors Of medicine from every part Of the
civilized world heard lectures there last year.
The Polyclnic No 2li to 2ls East Thrty-fourth-
st. was organized In 1880 and opened in 1872 and
was the first post graduate school in America indie
pepdent of an undergraduate college Twoscore or
II ore hospitals asylums and dspensares are repre-
scented bv members Of the medical profession VINO
are teachers there.
The hospital connected with the institution con-
tains sixty beds, which are occupied chiefly by pa
tents requiring surgical operations. There is also
a dispensary where from one hundred and fifty to
two hundred patients are treated daily.
There Is also a homoeopa thc undergraduate school
at No 2i5 East Eighty fourthst.. with dlspensary
where students have an opportunity 10 make OBJ
servations and to gain practical knowledge
FOR UNDERGRADUATE WORK
The opportunities for new students In New York
are as good as in any city in the world They have
the choice OF the College of Physicians and Sur
gcons. which is the medical department of Co
lumbia College; the University Medical College.
which is the medical department of the University
OF the City of New-York; Bellevue Hospital Mod
cal College. the Homeopathic Medical College. the
Eclectic Medical College or II tie student be
woman who prefers to study in womens classes.