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E, Babies Hospital - October 29, 1928 called out when the crowd could not be dissuaded peaceably. and in the confrontation which followed several rioters were shot and killed. The next year the New York Legislature passed a law to make the bodies of executed criminals available for dissection. This source did not provide sufficient anatomic material for dissection, and the practice of grave robbing continued. In 1791, Dr. Romayne asked the Regents for a charter for a medical school which he had established with several associates. The Regents favored such a plan but had to wait for the Legislature to pass enabling legislation on March 24, 1791. In the meantime the Columbia Tmstees, spurred on by John Bard, convinced the Regents that they were in the process of upgrading their medical school. and so Romayne was denied his charter. Romayne continued his medical school through an affiliation with Queen's College in New Jersey until that school closed for lack of funds in 1793. Columbia, in 1793. gave up the practice of awarding the M.B.. principally because most of the students who received the M.B. did not go on to obtain the M.D. At this time New York State did not require physicians to possess any medical degree. Columbia's admissions requirements were more stringent than other private schools. For all of these reasons. Columbia continued to do poorly. and awarded only 31 Doctorates from 1793 to 1807. ln 1806 Dr. Romayne. having returned from an extended trip abroad. became president of the New York County Medical Society. As president of the Society. in February 1807 he petitioned the Regents for 23
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