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Castleton Medical College. McClintock was succeeded by an office pupil, Dr. J. M. Allen. Allen united forces with Dunott of the original school, and they occupied the two sets of rooms under the title of The Philadelphia School of Anatomy. Later Allen was left in sole charge. In 1842 W. R. Grant held the west building for a year, and then accepted the professorship of anatomy in the Pennsylvania Medical College. McClintock returned to Philadelphia and occupied the west building from 1845-47. J. M. Allen, who meanwhile had occupied the east building, assumed charge of both buildings from 1847-52. In 1852 Allen became a professor of anatomy at the Pennsylvania Medical College.

The first woman to dissect in the Philadelphia School of Anatomy joined Allen's class in 1843-4. " 'It was probably,' says her sister, 'the first time that a woman had dissected as a medical student' " (Keen.)

Dr. D. Hayes Agnew assumed the responsibilities of the school in 1852, and held it for ten years. He was found a most inspiring teacher. While teaching here he published his "New Arrangement of the London Dissector" (1868), and a series of papers on anatomy in its relation to medicine and surgery. In "The Life of Agnew," by J. H. Adams (Phila- delphia, 1892), some interesting details are given of the school at the time Agnew had charge of it.

In 1862 Dr. Agnew relinquished the anatomical rooms to J. E. Garretson, who was followed in turn by J. P. Andrews and R. S. Sutton and finally by W. W. Keen, who once more re-established the brilliant reputation of the school, as may be judged from the following quotation from his farewell speech:

"It ill becomes one to speak of himself, but I may perhaps be per- mitted to state the following facts: I have lectured here longer than any of my predecessors, Allen and Agnew only excepted; I have given nine winter and five summer courses of descriptive and surgical anat- omy, two courses on artistic anatomy, and thirteen courses on operative surgery, besides private courses to numerous individual students and graduates. I have had nearly fifteen hundred students of whom at least five are already professors in medical colleges, and one has opened the first dissecting room ever established in Japan. They have come from the District of Columbia, and every state in the Union, except New Mexico and Nebraska, and from fourteen foreign countries, as follows: Canada, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward's Island, New Brunswick, Cuba, Porto Rica, Mexico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Denmark, Norway, Prussia, Switzerland and England.

"During this time, also, I have published a series of "Clinical Charts of the Human Body," a sketch of the "Early History of Practical Anatomy," and a pamphlet on the "Anatomical, Pathological, and Surg-