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s Wtt College THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA I. N 1834 the Old Medical College came into existence as an off-shoot of Hampden-Sidney College. While at first only a department of Hampden-Sidney, it was even then specified that the lectures should be given in Richmond, and here they have been given ever since, on such subjects as are recognized as necessary and proper for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and, when such lectures were satisfactorily passed, the Medical Faculty recommended to the General Faculty of Hampden-Sidney that the candidate be graduated with the degree of M. D. Of those appointed professors according to the original regulations, few others are remembered, either by tradition or otherwise, than Dr. John Cullen, who was at that time appointed Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine. It is inter- esting further to note that James Madison sat in this first meeting and is one of the signers of the recommendation creating the Department of Medicine. This Medical Department or College was early established in the old Union Hotel, at Nineteenth and Main Streets. In 1845, on the lot in the old Academy or Theatre Square, was completed the impressive building of Egyptian architecture that still stands on its original site, awakening the admiration and even the awe of the passer-by, and is the holy shrine of many a medicus who returning there, often many years after his student days, looks with loving eyes upon the unchanged and unchanging ivy-covered walls of his Alma Mater. A correspondent of the London Telegraph spoke of the Medical College of Virginia as the most beautiful building he had ever seen. From the years 1 838 to 1 845 many changes took place in the affairs and a few in the faculty of the old institution. Grants were made by the Legislature to the Medical College of Hampden-Sidney until finally in 1850 the Medical De- partment of Hampden-Sidney was released by the State from paying interest on the loans from the Literary Fund of the State, the State, however, providing that nothing should effect the securities required, in the first place, to cover the two loans of 1844 and 1845. 15
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