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VOLUME VI. CHER AW. SOUTH-CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1841. NUMBER 40.
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From the Farmers' Register.
JAMES RIVER WATER BORNE MARL, AND
ITS EXPENSE. LIME AND CEMENT FROM
STONE MARL.
At various places in our publications,
and still more in private conversations,
we have recommended and urged the use
of water-borne m irl to all those farmers
on ^navigable waters who had not marl <
easily accessible on their own lands. Our
arguments to this end, and estimates of 1
* advantages, have as yet had but very limited
operation, not because they were
not convincing to many, and who would
gladly have incurred the proper expense, |
but because, to effect the object, required <
al_ __ r xi _ i ci+ _ A. _i i
me co-operation ?i mree cuaereni classes >
of operators. These were, 1st, the pro- I
prietor and worker of the marl beds, to
sell, dig, and deliver the marl to lighters,
or other vessels; 2d, watermen and owners
of vessels to transport the marl; and
3d, purchasers upon fixed and large contracts,
so as to furnish that regular and
full employment which only could make
all parts of the business (as of anv other
business,) boih cheap in operation and
profitable in results. \fany persons were,
and still are, anxious !'? b iy marl?but
few proprietors of the beds cared to work
them on a proper mode for cheap deliv
ery?and still worse was the chance to
obtain water transportation to be properly
and certainly performed, and at other
than exorbitant rates. But notwithstanding
all the difficulties, we succeeded as .
early as 1833 in inducing Col. C. H.
Minge, then residing in Charles City
county, to commence marling his farm
in that county from the bed which underlies
Coggins Point, of which we gave to
him (and also to others afterwards) the
gratuitous use. Col. Mioge proceeded
on the proper mode for cheapness, by
purchasing a vessel, and having the transportation
carried on by his own hired
hands. But though thus avoiding the
exorbitant charges and unfaithful operations
of lighter-men, he had to bear all
the disadvantages and losses of carrying 1
oij all the separate branches of the busi- I
ness, generally out of the reach of his su- I
^ pervision, and by the aid of ignorant and <
inexperienced hands?aud, moreover, un- <
der other peculiar disadvantages, unne- 5
cessary to repeat here, but which may be i
seen, as slightly and generally referred to, <
in the report published at page 97 of 4 Essay
on Calcareous Manures.' Still, un- t
der all such disadvantages, (which we t
oppose must have served to increase the I
cost fully one-third,) Col. Minge contin- f
lied his operations through two years, and, *
according to careful and particular esti- i
mates of all the items, he found the total i
expense of the uncovering and digging f
the marl, putting it on board, transporting t
it 15 miles on and across the broad part of i
James River, and landing it above high- I
water mark, to be, for 15.000 bushels I
( leaped) conveyed in 1833, not quite 2 t
cents the bushel, (1 14-15 cents was the c
estimate,) and 17,000 bushels the next 1
year, only 1 6-16 cents per bushel. This i
does not include any payments for the I
marl, as he was charged nothing for it.? i
But if half a cent the bushel be allowed <
tor that (which is enough.) his marl of the
second year would still have cost him I
hut little more than 2 cents when put out |
on his landing place. I
But of the many who want to buv ;
marl, and who wuold very gladlv pay 3 |
cents, (and who in fact have paid 4 to 5 i
cents, or more,) none have been willing <
to undertake to be their own carriers.
And while they have paid mo e than i
twice the amount of fair prices for light- I
ering, thp persons engaged in that busi- i
ness have made but little profit, owing to i
the ignorance, laziness, and worthlessness
.of most of the hireling hands who man
the river lighters. Mr. Hill Carter, of
.Shirley, next to Col. Minge. was the earliest
and has been the most extensive ap.
plier of water-borne marl on the borders
* of James River. But though he likewise
obtained his early supplies gratuitously,
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^paying oniy lur me iauui p>-i iui mcu,^ uc
has never been able to have marl put on
his shore at less than 4 1-4 cents ; and
yet, nfter seeing the effects of his earlv
applications, he was so anxious to extend
it to all His land, that he requested and
authorised us to contract with any responsible
person to furnish him marl
enough, and rcgulnrlv, at 5 cents per bushel.
We were unable, at that time, to induce
any proper person t . undertake that
large contract, and ther"rore ;t was not
effected ; though we were as well persuaded
then as now, that even at 2 cents
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less, a good and sufficient profit would
have been afforded to the other party.
Under this opinion we rather discouraged
the paying the high prices then asked,
and advised several persons who would
otherwise have bought, to wait for more
moderate terms?or, still better, to become
their own carriers. But to this
time, the price has been very little reduced,
4 cents being the lowest yet paid,
under the most favorable circumstances,
and large quantities of marl have been
bought and used, at such high prices,
though not one-twentieth of what might
otherwise have been demanded, at fair
prices.
I)uring all this time, we refrained from
offering to furnish marl from our beds,
except by gift?and that for several reasons.
In the first place, we.did not choose
that our urgent recommendations to others
to purchase and use water-borne marl
should, even by possibility, subject us to the
suspicion of being impelled thereto by
the desire of making a pecuniary profit
bv the business?and therefore, we pre.
ferred that others should be undertakers
of the business. Next, our own marl,
on navigable water, though very rich,
is peculiarly difficult to uncover and work, i
and therefore cannot be so cheaply furnished
(to the bushel) as from many oth- j
er more easily accessible beds. But, after
leaving it to others for 8 years to commence
this business, and carry it on, and I
with very little effect, either in reducing
prices, or furnishing a regular and suffi.
cient supply at any prices, we presume
that ice may now make the attempt to
furnish a better and cheaper supply, with- i
Dut drawing suspicion on our motives in '
ecomrnendations made, and opinions ex. <
tressed, so long ago. According to the I
idvertisement published on the cover of <
this number, it will be seen that the marl I
)f Coggins Point is offered to be put on |
ward lighters at 2 cents the heaped bush- I
d ; or at 11-2 cents, if on contracts for s
19.000 bushels or more. If purchasers 1
.vill furnish their own lighters and hands, I
he transportation and landing of the marl <
-vithin 15 miles distance, njay be per.
"ormed for one cent more; and even to
lired vessels, regularly employed, 1 1-2 ^
:ents would furnish a sufficient profithere
being a proper wharf or stage at the
anding place, and the marl being taken
>y the purchaser from the deck of the c
essel. But no lighter-men will engage f
it this price for freight?and few can be i
died on for regular work at even their f
iwn higher prices. Therefore, if this <
msiuess is to be put on the cheapest and ?
nost profitable footing, (and which cannot
>? except as a large and regular business,) j
he purchasers of the marl must provide
ind man their own lighters. If that were
lone, and proper arrangements made,
hese terms for large contracts would per- \
nit the marl to be carried to distances ! 1
vithin 15 miles, for 2 1-2 to 3 cents the 1
Mishel. and 40 or 50 miles for 4 cents. J
But, to elfect this unprecedented (and t
leretofore almost unhoped for) degree of I
cheapness, it will be essential that pur- j
:hasers and land-owner9 shall operate on {
i large scale, and to the best advantage j
n economizing labor, as well as the workjrs
of the beds, and shippers of the marl.
The lime-stone (as it may be truly
erm?d, in regard to its calcareous constiution.)
which is furnished by this same i
>ed of marl, is another object of high im- *
)ortance, for cement; and if, as we pre- '
mme, as rich stone-marl may be found '
n many other places in Virginia, we 1
night not only be furnished at home with 1
ill the lime required for building, but at a f
nuch less price than is paid, to an 1
mmense amount annually, for the stone- <
ime of New England, Directed merely t
>y our knowledge of its chemical consti- (
ut ion, we hi nt this limn and used it for
)ur own buildings, eight to ten years ago. ,
Having since sold the farm, Shellbanks, ^
n Prince George countv, w*e had not seen (
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the mortar used there, for six years, until
i few days ago. The plastering, of the I
dwelling house, which was altogether of 1
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this lime, is unusually firm, and has stood 1
better, as Mr. Theron Gee, the present ?
proprietor thinks, than any plastering he t
has ever known made of other lime. A i
small part of the brick-work only, for ex- ]
periment and comparison, was built with
mortar made of this lime, in proportions ,
r>f two measures of sand to one of lime. {
The mortar is of remarkable and very unjsual
hardness, and adhesiveness to the ,
brinks, and very far harder, nnd far better
in all respects, than the best oyster
shell lime mortar, burnt at the same time,
and used on the same day with the lime I
mortar, and by the same workmen, and 1
in the same job. In fact, the marl-lime 1
mortar is so greatly and strikingly supe- !
rior, that no observer can doubt but that i
its value as a cement is increased by some
or all the other ingredients which it con- i
tains besides the 85 to 90 per cent, of
pure carbonate of lime. The remainder
of its body is principally silex and clay?
but is partly made up by small portions
of iron, of gypsum, and of some other
and more soluble salt. The cement is
now much harder than ihe bricks which
it unites, or than the stone from which it
was burnt. And though we do not know
the strength or value of anv other bodies
of marl than our own, and do not pro'ess
to warrant the fair selection of specimens
from any other, (and which selection re-1
quires much more care and fidelity than
are usually given to the object,) we doubt
not but that there is much good material
of this kind for mortar, in sundry other I
marl beds, which it would bs greatly for |
the public benefit, as well as for private ;
profit, to have brought into use.
We take this mode of again inviting ,
the farmers on the tide water who want
marl, to take the proper course (by build- ,
ing navigating lighters for themselves,) j
to make their supply cheap?and there- ,
by to serve the public interests as well as }
their own by extending the use of this j
greatest of agricultural improvers. At a ,
small addition to the prices stated above, ,
the marl could be put on hoard of sea
cuusung vessel*, ??u anriosi as low, as
they .*o netimes ha\e to pay f >r ballast;
so that in this manner it might be delivered
in places even as remote as New
York or Charleston, at 6 to 8 cents the
bushel.
Those persons who may wish to be more
particularly or fully informed of the practical
effects and profits of the marl from
Coggins Point, are referred to Hill Carter,
esq., of Shirley, Col. Collier H.
Minge, (now in A/ohile.) and Dr. John
Minge of Weyanoke.- And besides various
notices of our own, which of course
we would not adduce as testimony in
such n case, statements of some of the effects
known by the gentlemen just named,
may be seen at. pages 183. 189, 247 and
511 of vol, 5, Farmers' Register.?Ed.
Far. Reo.
Black Sea Wheat.
The late importation made by the Kennebee
County Agricultural Society of
wheat from the Black Sea, seems to he a
different variety from any that we have
nad ip this vicinity before. We examined
a field of it belonging to Major Wood,
the other day, which looks exceedingly
promising. The straw is stout and strong,
tiaving larger joints than any we have
seen. The head of medium length and
well packed. The true results will soon
3e known in regard to it; and we have no
doubt they will prove highly favorable.
Main Farm sr.
From the S. C. Temperance Advocate. (
turnips. t
RobertvUle, July 10, 1841. r
Dear Sir: As I deem it the duty of t
ivery good citizen, who wishes well to the ?
>ublic generally, to publisTF the result oF t
iny experiment, which would he bene- c
icial to the agricultural interests of our *
Stitc; and so few know how to plant, <
ind make large turnips, which forms a c
valuable part of the crop of every planter ?
)eing so useful to feed the cows, sheep, I
ind even horses, I will submit to your li
consideration, and if you think it worthy s
;o your publication, the following, which <
s strictly true, and may be proved by c
nanv living witnesses. Some years ago, t
[ do not recollect the year, ("but it was t
:hat warm winter when so many ^persons s
ost their bacon from warm weather,) 1 a
slanted two acres of turnips, as I gener- s
illy do, for I depend greatly upon my c
urnips, for my oxen and sheep ; the lirst a
came up pretty well, being planted in v
\ugust, but the last, not planted until the t
niddle of September, were very much f
scattered over the field. There were in e
lome places, but one or two in several 1
'ect of each other. Well thought 1,1 have r
ost my turnips. 1 knew not what to do; t
>ut having nothing else to depend upon, i
[ had them worked as usual, and the fall c
ind winter being warm, the turnips grew <:
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mely, and grew to be very large. 1 isaw i
>ne of my negroes, carrying one to eat,
ind took it away; it had been thrown v
>ver to the oxen, and the top and tap f
oot had been eaten olf; it was a flat tur- i
,iip, and measured three feet in circum. a
'ercnce, and notwithstanding the top and t
:ap root were otf, it weighed thirteen f
lounds. This was not the only large one, ?
ilthough the largest which I saw. The
fame of my turnips spread far and near; *
i great many persons came to see them, ?
ind all bespoke seed for the next year; <
it was the common rough turnip, which s
[ had always generally planted; but (
while my turnips, before this year, and t
jven those planted in August, were gen- t
Esrally as large as my wrist, though some I
not larger than my thumb, vet here the 1
the turnips were generally, as large as I
my thigh, and I don't think there was I
ane that would not have weighed five 1
pounds, unless it was where they had ?
come "?) well and good, as I had thought, '
two tnree in a lull, where they were I
as small as any of my August turnips, or 1
any I had ever made ; there were not '
many, however, which were so' thick, and 1
consequently, so small. Before this, 1 '
took as much pains .n preparing my turnip
land, as I would in preparing a garden
and had my turnips, .3, 4 or 5 inches
apart, on the beds, so I made small tur- '
nips ; but since then, I have ploughed J
my land, cleared it of all grass and weeds,
made small beds 2 1-2 feet apart, and ]
left the turnips, twelve, fourteen, fifteen
or sixieen inches on the beds. Turnips, {
like every thing else, must have room^o
grow well and large, if I wanted to makt
turnips again, as large a?? these I hav^
mentioned above. I would have my beds (
three feet apart, and have the turnipe
two feet on the beds. I write you this,
because I believe that there are very few
persons, who know how to make turnips,
believing too, that the public generally,
will be benefitted by this, as [ had thought
my failure, to m ?ke a good turnip crop.
When I shall be able to plant turnips this
year, I am not able now to tell,?
for we have had no rain, and but one of
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my coHsequenee, since the 31st of May,
ind corn, potatoes, meilons, and even
iheoak trees are drying up, for want of
ain. With this, I subscribe mvself,
rours, &c. Jehu. {
Gr vfting the Peach With Success.
Messrs. Editors?I am not aware that
my process has been devised tor grafting
jpon the peach stock, with any certain
prospects of success. Experiments doubtess
have often succeeded in rearjng grafts
lpon peach stocks, but more often failed.
gardener in my neighborhood informed
tie that he ouce grafted upon one hun\re*A
noa/>h afnrlca and all the trraffs died
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ind most of the stocks. (He was always
juccessful in giafting upon other kinds.)
Lastyear Iwas^induced to investigate{the
natterwith a view to devise some means of I
>bviuting this failure, as it is desirable in
nany cases to graft in lieu of budding,
>crsuaded that although the discovery
night bo of no great practical utility, yet
t would be an interesting acquisition to
he sciance of arboriculture. The peach
reeisof more rapid growth than any of
>ur orchard trees, and frequently with us,
n congenial soils, the first year from the i
?eed, attains the hight of six feet, with
stems from one inch to an inch and a half
iiameter. The circulation, of course,
nust he very active, and the sudden
check from heading down such a tree,
will, in many cases, destroy it. But
ihould it live, the flowing, as it were, by
:he sap; that is, the sap flows so fast from
:he wounds, as to prevent the process of
jrauulation, by which the coin is united
:o the stock. To graduate, then the sup. I
>ly of sap to the wants of the scion, is
he primary ohject, and the measures necessary
to secure this condition, are just
hose which tend to preserve the life of
he stock after heading down. To carry
ny purpose into effect, I proceeded conrary
to some of the ordinary rules for
grafting. In the middle of July, I seleced
the scoin from thirty trees, wifh four
>r five eyes, taking care to choose those
vhich contained laef buds. The stock
:hosen, were moderately growing instead
>f thrifty stocks, and were trees of the
growth of that s^oson from the seed. Beore
heading down, I passed a long sharp
inife down entirely round the tree, and
evered all the lateral loots at the distance
>t three or four inches from the trunk, acwording
to its growth. This done, the
rees were headed down at a point where
lie stem was just the size of the scion, or
l little larger, as the scions were inserted
i little on one side of the pith. The intertion*
were made in the ordinary way
>f cleft grafting. The scions were then
lecurcd by a narrow strip of sheet lead,
vound spirally over the whole length of
he cleft, and a small hall of grafting clay
>ut over the whole. To my gratification
ivory scion inserted in this way grew off
inely, and the coming season will doubtless
nake handsome trees. I do not know
hat the lead binding or mode of insertion
s essenl ial, and although I have tried no
>ther plan, yet I presume that other meth>ds
will answer equally well, provided
he preliminary steps are properly attend:d
to. On other stocks I have grafted
vith success, with no other binding or
irotcction than the strip of lead, and have
isedlead ligatures, with great expedition
ind success in building. The introducion
of lead ligatures was meidy an ex>eriment
with a view to expedite grafting
md budding in large nursery operations,
rhus far I am inclined to give the prefermces
to the old methods. When head
ng down the stocks, I took care in every
:ase to leave either one or two small shoots,
;ome leaves, or several nascent buds in
>rder to continue all the functions of the
ree until union had taken place between
he scion and the stalk. As soon as the
v.ids of the scion began to put forth, all be.
ow upon the stock was pruned off. When
he scions were taken from the trees, the
eaves were all removed as in building
eaving only a small portion of the foot
italk. The clayand ligatures were renoved
in the fall when vegetation
iad deceased, and the wounds
vere all well closed. I am
lot sure that it is absolutely essential to
eave any thing growing 0:1 the stalk, and
egret that I did not try some wdhout.
CH. G.PAGE, M. D.
Washingion City, Feb., 1841.
Albany Cultivator,
n^UiCAiL OfiPABTflEjiifoF
F*IE Ux%VEItSITY OF N. YORK.
V
F10N. THEODORE FRELINGHUYSEN,
Chancellor of the University,?President
of the Faculty,
VALENTINE MOTT, M. D.
Professor of the Principles and Operations
of Surgery, with Surgical and Pathological
Anatomy,
GRANVILLE SHARP PATTISON,
M. D. |
Professor of General', Descriptive, und
Surgical Anatomy.
JOHN REVERE, M. U.
Professor of the Theory and Practice of
Medicine.
MARTIN PAINE, Mk D.
Professor of the Institutes of Medicine and
Materia Medica.
GUNNING S. BEDFORD, M. D.
Professor of .Midwifery and the Diseases
of Women and Children.
JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER, M. D.
Professor of Chemistry.
APPOINTMENTS PY THE PROFESSORS OF
SURGERY AND ANATOMY.
JOHN MURRAY CARNOCHAN M. D.
Prosector to the Professor of Surgery,
JOHN H. WHITTAKER, M. D.
Demonstrator to the Professor of Anatomy.
The Council of the University of
New York, having resolved to bring into
effective operation all the Departments of
the Institution over which they preside,
and to realize the hopes and expectations
of its friends, have organized the Medical
Faculty of the University. In announcing
this fact to the public, the Faculty
consider it their duty to enter at some
detail into an exposition of the Constitution
of the Medical School, and to present,
for the consideration of the Profession,
certain views in reference to the
facilities which its establishment will afford
for the cultivation of Medical and
Chirurgical Science.
I. Charter of the University.
The Charter of Incorporation of the
University of New York secures to its
Medical Facility, to the fullest extent, ail
those powers, privileges, and immunities
which the most favoured Medical Insti(ions
in Europe or in this country enjoy.
* * *
II. Constitution of the Medical Department
of the University of New
York.
* ? * *
It will be observed that the number of
Medical Professorships is limited to six,
viz: 1, Surgery, 2 Anatomy* 3. Theory
and Practice of Physic, 4. Instututes of
Medicine and Materia Medica, 5. Midwifery
and the Diseases of Woman and
Children, 6. Chemistry.
As the Council, in making this arrangement,
were guided by the advice of the
Faculty, it may, perhaps, be proper to
explain to the members of the profession
the reasons which led them to recommend
that the Chairs should not,for the present,
exceed that number.
There is no Medical Institution in the
United States, which requires from those
who are candidates for its Diploma more
than three years' study, and an attendance
on two full courses of lectures; and
the fact is known to every person at all
conversant with medical education in this
country, that verv few students attend
lectures for more than two sessions, before
they come forward for graduation.
Such being the case, the Medical Faculty
conceive, that te multiply professorships,
and to impose the obligation on medical
students to attend additional lectures during
the two sessions usually devoted by
them to an attendance at college, so far
from having tho effect of elevating the
medical education of the country, will
have a contrary tendency. Let the
members of the profession recall to mind
the period of their own pupilage, and even
the most diligent and intellectual of them
will admit, that a daily at ten lance on six
distinct of lect uffcs, with the necessary
attention to practical anatomy and clinical
lectures, taxed their mental and physical
powers to the utmost, and that to have
required them to attend addittonal lectures,
no matter how important the subjects,
would not have promoted their improvement.
The great defect in our prosent
system of medical education is net
that we do not teach a sufficient number
of branches in our Medical Schools, but,
that we do not sufficiently extend the
term for attendance.
In the opinion of the Medical Faculty,
it is prejudicial to the interests of medical
education to imitate the Schools ol burope
in the multiplication of professorships,
whilst we do not imitate them in extending
the term of medical education. In
Europe, where the medicaljprofessorships
have been increased, the studeht is required
to attend lectures for at least four
sessions of six months each, and these
spread over a period of four years, before j
he can come forward as a candidate for
graduation.* In this country we require i
students to attend two full courses of all
the lectures which are delivered in the
school they may select, be they six, or
eight, or more. Our sessions occupy
only four months, and as already stated,
a majority of those who graduate, here, do
so after attending lectures during two
sessions. The injurious effect of multi.
plying lectures which it is obligatory od
the students to attend, in no short a period,
is too palpable to require argument to.
prove it. Again: Theexperience of the
members of the Medical Faculty of the
* Faculty will feel thankful to their Profe* ional
Brethren for any-specimens which they
may contribute.
"If
?i ii ?
University of Now York, as teachers of
ihe different branches of Medical Science,
and some of them have",been engaged in
those duties for more than thirty jreara,
has convinced them, that the uniting, in
one professorship, the departments of Materia
A/adica and the Institutes of Medicine,
better secures the interest, and promotes
the improvement of the student*
The details of the Materia Medica, when
taught as they usually are, separately
from the other departments, are necessarily
dry; but, when their study is combined
with that of physiology and pathology,
as it is when the Chair of Materia Medica
forms a part of that of the Institutes of
Medicine, it becomes deeply interesting.
III. The superior facilities which
the City of New-York possesses run
the cultivation of Medical and Surgical
Science.
Nodoubt can exist in the minds of the
intelligent and well informed as to tb#
superior advantages which a great city'affords
for the cultivation of Medicine. If
we look to Europe, we find that the Great
Medical School* are all located in large
cities ; as in Dublin, in Edinburg, in London,
in Paris, in Berlin, and in Virenna.
Where minor Medical institutions
have been fordied in the smaller cities, as
at Gottingen, Montpeller, and Halo, the
governments of the countries where they
are situated hare established, in connec.
tion with them, extensive hospital*, in
which there are congregated not only the
patients of the surrounding districts, but,
there ate introduced into them interesting
cases, which are brought at the expense
and through the influence of the government,
from the most remote parts of the
territory. Sustained, however, by alt
the aids and influences which the wealtb
and power of Princes afford, the facilities
they offer to the students who resort to
them are considered inferior to those
which the great Medical Schools, established
in large and populous cities, fur?
nish. And very few students in ?urope
are willing to engage in the duties of
their profession until they shall have
attended lectures, for one or two years at
least, in one of the Great Metropolitan
Medical Institutions. Admitting, therefore,
the fact that it is essential to the
successful cultivation of Medical Science
that the school where lectures are deliver,
ed, shall be loctated in a farge and populous
ity, no argument is required to prove that.
New.York is preeminently fitted to become
tbe centre of Medical Science.
The limits of this announcement will
not permit the Facnlty to enlarge oo this
topic, nor to detail the advantages which
the medical student who resorts to NewYork
for his education will enjoy in prosecuting
the studies of his profession.
In the vastness of her population, the
number and the extent of her hospitals
and Dispensaries, congregated within
the wards of which there is to be seen
every variety of disease and accident to
which the human frame is liable, and the
unlimited supply of the material for the
cultivation of Practical Anatomy which
she furnishes, she stands without a rival
in the United Slates.
1 f thr? rnnr?iP which has hoon fnllnwa/l
a* v??v *?%?! n%??? i/wil IVIIV??W
by the Council of the University in the
selection of the Professors of the Medical
Department be referred to, it will be observed
that they have been guided(by im foor
sectional feeling. They have considered
the Institution of which they, are the
guardians not local, but a National one.
They have accordingly selected a> Professor
from one of the Colleges of Virginia,
two from Philadelphia, and three from
New-York.
IV. Unversity and College*. Buildings.
The convenience and accomodations
furnished by the University and College
Buildings are commensurate in magmfc.
cence and extent with the prospects of
the Institution of which they forma part.
The University is situated on ttte east
side of Washington Square. It is built
of white marble, and presents a Gothic
facade of one hundred and eighty feet.
This splendid edifice, with its libraries.
&c., is at all times open to the students of
the Medical Department of the University,
and in its Gothic chapel, all the publio
ceremonials of the Faculty of Medicine,
as introductory lectures, public com
rnencement, &c\, will be holden.
The College, where the regular lectures
of the Medical Department will be
given, is situated in Broadway, in theimmediate
vicinity of the University,?
The Faculty consider it a subject of congratulation
to have been enabled to secure
an edifice so admirably calculated
for carrying on extended courses of medical
instruction.
V. Hospitals, &c. Arr.
As before observed, New York oftr?
to the medical students, who attend beta,
superior facilities for clinical obbemu
tlon and Rhidv. In so larae a rrttr
wards of the Hospitals art necessarily*
crowded with the most interesting cai^E,*
and as the distinguished phys^cfehs and'
surgeons, who attend New
Hospital, make daily visits to its ward*
accompanied by the students, evtry frffiL A
\ty is thus *6$4*4 tfcenr ^ 0b* m
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