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the college, hospital, and the different courses of lectures, could not fail of bringing a concourse of strangers to this place.
The establishment of a medical library in this college would prove another great benefit to students, and tend likewise to influence their resort hither. Proper means may possibly be suggested to accomplish this, without any great additional charge to the college. The pupils that attend lectures, for whose advantage it is intended, may, upon being matriculated, afford each of them to contribute annually a small sum. This from a number of pupils, in a succession of some years, would be of considerable service towards procuring a medical library. Perhaps the physicians of Philadelphia, touched with generous sentiments of regard for the rising generation, and the manifest advantages accruing to the college thereby, would spare some useful books, or contribute somewhat as a foundation on which we might begin.
The growth of this and the neighbouring colonies calls aloud for a medical institution. The increasing number of inhabitants demands an increase of those who exercise the profession of Medicine and Surgery, and ought to be an argument with all of us, who regard either the present or future advantages of the country, to attend seriously to the importance of the subject.
