New-York tribune., 1903-06-07
Medical Nese- York, Old and NesS.
Progress of POSTGRADUATE Instruction This Country in
Face of Obstacles.
BY DIR ACHILLES ROSE.

p- u. 3, St John Roosa, in his inaugural ad-
s-ess as president Of the New-York Post-Grad-
nate Medical School at the first opening of this
,ns+stution on November 4 1882. spoke on Med
Seal New-Y York Old and New comparing our
metropolis with other metropolises from point
:. view apt TO cause thinking / was among
the listeners on that historic occasion, which
must have left lively impression on the minds
Of all who participated. The recollections Of the
oldest inhabitant Of Paris or London Roosa
said. do not reach TO the past. when these cities
were not Yet metroposes. for the traditions of
these great centres are those of many genera
.iors: for centuries Paris and London have had
crowded streets, long rows of shops great cathe-
drals and other attributes of large cities.
New-York. with its millions Of inhabitants is
q young metropolis; its traditions are those OF
g provincial town. and the time is not very re-
mote when il was uncertain whether New-York
or Philadelphia or Boston would become the
most important city Of America.
There exist Yet people who saw pigs run
ming on Broadway. and who can remember that
every family keeping a carriage was known
ty name by everybody Those who have wit
messed this miraculous development of our city
snd II difficult To comprehend the wonder.
Il would lead too far If 1 were TO give my
recollectiors from the interesting history Of
medical New Yorl5-old and new-as related
sn this grafton. The event itself. the opening of
the POSTGRADUATE Medical School CT Novern-
ber 4. 1882, is an event in history. a new phase
in history, not only of medical New-York but
q the whole medical world.
The foundation of the New-York Post Grad
nate Medical School was the first attempt to
establish. independently of a college for stu
dents Of medicine courses Of instruction for
graduate physicians. The idea of such courses
a,oS hze-7 fo-r rad al ho
BY the medical faculty Of the University of
New-York- AT that time medicine had made
rapid progress. Z new impulse had been given
Il in Germany.
Before the year 1870 there prevailed ideas
about Germany and German science quite diff
feTent from those OF the present day. Vir-
chow's entrance into science had placed medi-
cine new basis yet most American physi-
Clans were still under the impression that Ger
man medical learning was inferior to that in
France and England. as it had been indeed be-
fore Virchows time
At present American physicians in search of
advanced knowledge who visit European uni
verslties prefer to go to Germany. Before the
year 1870 they preferred Paris. One Of the ex-
ceptions was DR.. Roosa: he went to Germany,
studied in Berlin and IN Vienna, and only after
ward IN Paris. In the year 1868 he returned
from Europe, and IN the year 1864 appeared
the first edition OF his translation from the
German Of Troeltsche's work on Diseases Of
the Ear" In the year 1859 appeared the first
edition OF his and Eackley's translation. also
from the German, OF the great work on Dis
eases OF the Eye by Stellwag Won Carton
New life came into American medicine when
in the year 1870 the English translation OF Me
meyers Practice of Medicine" made its ap-
pearance. It became the most popular OF all
medical books Translations OF Virchow's "Cel~