New-York tribune., 1905-08-26
MEDICAL STUDY.
Nc1c- \ Y0rk s Foremost Position IN the
Healing Art.

In 1850 some New-York medical students OBJ
tanned a human BODY. which they took to a loft
and dissected. Seventeen years later the first
medical school was opened in the city. In the
century and half which have passed since then
no department of science has advanced so COM
pletely and substantially as has the art Of
medicine, and it from this secret meeting of
these young students that was inaugurated the
study Of medical science in this city. to which
We are so largely indebted to-day. 1t was long
after this that the medical school was made
public institution and for decades il was neces-
sary 10 exercise great caution to prevent the
discovery of what the students were really
about. for il was not until a century after-in
lS54-that il became lawful 10 dissect a human
body Previous TO that time any one discovered
doing 50 liable TO Imprisonment with hard
labor. Opposition to the movement was so
e-reat that on one occasion an entire medical
class, both professors and students were chased
from their dissecting table through the streets
10 the city prison. where they fed for their
lives
The results of these early endeavors to solve
the mysteries Of the human body are seen to-
day in the many colleges scattered throughout
the city, which, in connection with the various
hospitals, unsurpassed in their equipments
and attracting thousands of students from
all over the country. There are eighty-one medi-
cal colleges institutions and societies enumeT-
ated in the New-York City Directory for 1865
The city medical schools have gathered together
faculties composed of the most eminent sur
Eeons and physicians the age has produced,
and to-day no occupation stands higher here
than the medical profession. The city institu-
tions provide such facilities that the student
feels no incentive TO g 10 Europe for instruc-
tion, and in many instances he can obtain more
thorough training from better masters at nome
than anywhere else in the world. Many of the
old World countries are sending their young
rren 10 the medical schools of this city, and on
their rosters are the names OF pupils from every
safe in the Union and from Peru. Chilli, Central
America Mexico, Brazil. France, Germany
G-ear Britain and even japan and Russia
The Oldest medical schools now in existence
are the College of Physicians and Surgeons,
5eT,ar1rnent Of Columbia University, opened
il 1907. and the University College, a praIlcn -.
Of NeN-York University. The latter was
started il 1895 by group Of men headed
tv Martyn Payne. Alfred c. Post, Cunning >.
Bedford and a. Sidney Doane. Ihey occupied
n ffret the StuyVeSant Institute, on BrOad"dy'
near Bond-st In 1851 they moved into their
re1s building next 10 the Academy OF MUSIC on
14rf-st IN 1866 this building was oeslroyed
Dr., fire and the college lost valuable col4eCIoI
81 auafonv Of obstetrics. chemistry ana nlatell5
rnedca- For three years te9 tdieS - - ~
york Hospital and il 1869 they moved 10
-be foot of 26th-st.. on the ole site no" KEPT pS
-rerr the first clinic ever given ID Ahei!cd
v-ae founded in this college by Ut NaIFlItlLs t
Mott professor OF surgery, ana Il "sI9 III
~. excellent work Of Martyr Payne lhat 1iS
INC .g,frst diSSeCt ion were finally repealeu
~ ne few larger schools The College OF = ny
sioia.le and Surgeons stands al the ntad 10y
reason Of its age and equipment ~. =; - -
berr is the dean The Eclectic School is IA East