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improvement of science; but these, I imagine, will suffice for the present.
Why should we be deterred from establishing like institutions of Medicine in this seminary, especially as so many circumstances conspire to invite and encourage so important an undertaking. I shall briefly enumerate the most interesting of them.
The city of Philadelphia, adorned with a set of eminent practitioners, draws to it a great number of pupils, from the neighbouring parts, to learn the arts of Physic and Surgery. We may reasonaably expect, that from the proposed institution, the number of students, who shall resort hither to partake of these advantages, will be gradually augmented.
Besides men of great abilities and eminence, under whom they may see private practice, the hospital of this city is a great persuasive to determine a concourse of medical students to this place. It would be doubly useful to them, and increase their motive of repairing here, if they could be first properly initiated in the principles of their profession, by regular courses of lectures duly delivered.
