The Early history of the New Hampshire Medical InstitutionGlobe Printing & Publishing House, 1880 - 41 pages |
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Page 27 - Hampshire (and not excluding any person of any religious denomination whatsoever from free and equal liberty and advantage of education, or from any of the liberties and privileges or immunities of the said College...
Page 27 - ... to make and establish such ordinances, orders and laws, as may tend to the good and wholesome government of the said college, and all the students and the several officers and ministers thereof, and to the public benefit of the same...
Page 5 - Oh, Lord ! we thank Thee for the Oxygen gas ; we thank Thee for the Hydrogen gas; and for all the gases. We thank Thee for the Cerebrum; we thank Thee for the Cerebellum, and for the Medulla Oblongata.
Page 15 - He was more extensively known in New England than any other medical man, or, indeed, than any man of any profession. The assertion that he has done more for the improvement of physic and surgery in New England than any other person will by no one be deemed invidious, and his influence over medical literature was equally extensive.
Page 28 - Voted, That a Professorship of Chemistry and Natural History be instituted in this College as soon as the funds shall be sufficiently productive to support it.
Page 27 - College for the time being or any other deputed by them give and grant any such degree or degrees to any of the Students of the said College or any others by them thought worthy thereof as are usually granted in either of the Universities or any other College in our Realm of Great Britain and that they...
Page 27 - ... others. If they be not, they are imperfect, and their amendment would be a most proper subject for legislative wisdom. Under the government and protection of the general laws of the land, these institutions have always been found safe, as well as useful. They go on, with the progress of society, accommodating themselves easily, without sudden change or violence, to the alterations which take place in its condition; and in the -knowledge, the habits, and pursuits of men.
Page 19 - ... schools and the professor, filling and filling well all the chairs in the medical curriculum, — from all accounts a really great teacher, and withal deserving President Woolsey's characterization of him as "the most delightful, unselfish and kind-hearted man I ever knew, and we children all loved him." Dr. Smith's letters to Shattuck remind one not a little of John Hunter's correspondence with his former pupil, Jenner. How suggestive of Hunter's many commissions imposed upon Jenner is the letter...
Page 27 - Dartmouth College was established under a charter granted by the Provincial government; but a better constitution for a college, or one more adapted to the condition of things under the present government, in all material respects, could not now be framed. Nothing in it was found to need alteration at the Revolution. The wise men of that day saw in it one of the best hopes of future times, and commended it as it was, with parental care, to the protection and guardianship of the government of the...
Page 6 - In 1812, the college of physicians and surgeons of the western district of the State of New York, at Fairfield, Herkimer County, was incorporated, Dr.