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sider the benefits which the Students of Medicine will derive from it.
In a place so remote as Philadelphia from every school of Physic, we cannot expect a very early inintelligence of all the medical discoveries and improvements which are made in Europe. In establishing medical colleges, the professors of each branch will find it incumbent on them to keep up a correspondence with the learned abroad. They will thus get speedy accounts of every thing new which may relate to their particular provinces. By improving this knowledge, they can diffuse it amongst their pupils, and, by their means, more readily propagate it through every part of the country.
That this will be of the greatest utility is manifest, if we rely on the authority of the most celebrated academicians. They strongly recommend "to let none of those discoveries escape us, which are daily brought to light by the labours of masters in the art. Without this care, say they, the most consummate practitioner, within the space of twenty years, will be ignorant of those truths which are then familiar to novices: the labours of others will thus become a source of labours to himself, and, without new study, his knowledge will decay into ignorance. Thus the celebrated practitioners in the time of Harvey, content with the knowledge which they had acquired
