Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons - P and S Yearbook (New York, NY)

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f 1 YW. ff Ie' 1 . 1 l Presbyterian Hospital - 70th Street and Madison Avenue The first commencement was held on May 16. 1769 with two students receiving M.B.'s. In May 1770 Robert Tucker received his Doctorate, thus establishing King's College as the first colonial school to award the M.D. in course, The College of Philadelphia awarded the M.B. in 1768, but did not award its first M.D. until 1771. The first honorary M.D, to be awarded in the colonies had been conferred by Yale on one Daniel Tucker, a generous benefactor of the school, in 1723. Detractors of the action suggested that M.D. stood for Multum Donavit. Eighteen individuals received M.D.'s at King's College up until April 1776 when the college property was taken over for military purposes and the students dispersed. Of the faculty, only Drs. Jones and Smith served with the Continental Army during the Revolution: the others remained loyal to the Crown. In 1784 the remnants of King's College were resurrected as Columbia College under the authority of the Regents of the University of the State of New York. Bard was the only original faculty member 20 remaining. One of the newcomers, Dr. Nicholas Romayne. would later exert a major influence on the development of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Columbia, at least in part due to its history of strong ties to the Crown, had a very difficult time obtaining any support. and the members of the medical faculty received no salary from the College. Bard and Romayne soon left Columbia, and there were no medical graduates from 1784-1791. For all practical purposes the school ceased to exist. The Doctor's Riot of 1788 is. perhaps. the most notable event in the medical history of this time period Dr. Richard Bayley, who later was affiliated with Columbia College and New York Hospital. was using one of the rooms of the vacant hospital to conduct private instruction in anatomy. An account of the events which ensued appeared in the New York Packet of April 25. On Sunday the 13th inst. a number of boys. we are informed, who were playing in the

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w I' V f e e 3 e he f me all iltil 'le FL. if '15 Neurological Institute - September 28, 1928 rear of the Hospital. perceived a limb which were imported from foreign countries - one was imprudently hung out of a window to or two fresh subjects were also found - all dry: they immediately informed some of which were interred the same evening. persons - a mulmude Soon Collected - The anatomists were saved from the crowd by the entered the Hospital: and' in their fufv actions of various local officials, but the people destroyed a number fi-gf anatsmlcal Id reassembled the next day with the intent of searching l preparauonsz some O Whlc ' We are to ' the houses of the suspected physicians. The militia was 22