Jefferson Medical College - Clinic Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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THE JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA A BRIEF HISTORY BY J. w. HOLLAND, Dean --ll ' N the hrst quarter of this century certain physicians Camong whom may he mentioned Dr, W, P, C, llartonj ambitious to teach medicine, had made unsuccessful attempts to secure from the liegislature a charter for a second medical school in Philadelphia. lt was such a reproach to any graduate of the Q N, existing school that he should endeaver to set up a rival to his afum zmzlcr that few had the audacity to try it. Social influence proved strong enough either to nip such enterprises in the bud or to blight them before the Legislature. Seven years after ll1trton's abortive attempt, Dr. George McClellan, a man of restless energy, fertile in expedients, determined if possible to organize a medical school under the authority of some literary college already chartered hy the State. On june 2, I824, in company with Drs. john liberle, joseph Klapp and jacob Green, he sent a f comznunication to the Trustees of jefferson College, then situated at Canonsburg, Washington Co., Penna., proposing a plan for a medical department at Philadelphia, in which these four should be part of the faculty. The Trustees adopted the suggestion and established a medical faculty of six chairs in the city of ' Plliladelpliia, as a constituent part of jefferson College, under the name of the jefferson Medical College. J' W' H l'm uw ln the winter of 1825-26 an enlargement of their charter was obtained, which authorized them to appoint ten additional trustees in the city of Philaxlelphia. Rev. Ashbel Green, D.lJ., who was possessed both of influence and learning, wise in council, and of great decision of character, at one time President of Princeton College, was appointed chairman of the additional trustees, and held office until his death in May, 1848. In 1826 an act of the Legislature enlarged the charter, giving the right to grant the medical degree. Two years after, the l'hiladelphia lloard was authorized to have almost entire management of the affairs of the medical college, the parent lloard retaining the right to reverse the proceedings when in their judgment the interests of the college required this action. This relationship survived until the winter of 1837-38, when it terminated by the medical college obtaining a separate charter. In organizing the first faculty Dr. joseph Klapp resigned, and in 1825 the chairs were filled as follows: john liberle, M.D., Theory and Practice of Medicine, B. Rush Rhees, M.lJ., Materia Medica and Institutes, jacob Green, Chemistry, Nathan R. Smith, M.D., Anatomy, Francis S. Beattie, M. D., Midwifery, George McClellan, M. D., Surgery. Having no endowment wherewith to build, they rented the old Tivoli Theatre, now 518 Locust Street, altered its interior to suit their purpose and announced a course of lectures for the winter of 1825-26. The first class numbered one hundred and seven and the degree was conferred upon twenty in May by a writ of 1.5