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108 with those of any other man in the country, does not afford sufficient inducements to call off his attention from more pleasing or more profitable pursuits.

5. —In this department the business of instruction is committed to six professors, occasionally assisted by adjuncts, who, like their principals, are appointed by the trustees. These professors constitute a faculty, to which, subject to the rules and statutes of the board, belongs the government of the medical school, and the arrangement of all the affairs of the department. One of their number, with the title of dean, is appointed to perform the duties of secretary to the faculty, and to act as their organ of communication with the students. The medical professors receive no salary; but the profits of their lectures render their office highly productive. The following is a list of the several professors, with the chairs which they respectively occupy:— style=text-indent:2em |

Philip Syng Physick, M. D., Professor of Anatomy;

Nathaniel Chapman, M. D., Professor of the Institutes and Practice of Physic, and of Clinical Medicine;

William Gibson, M. D., Professor of Surgery;

John Redman Coxe, M. D., Professor of Materia Medica, and of Pharmacy;

Robert Hare, M. D., Professor of Chemistry;

Thomas C. James, M. D., Professor of Midwifery;

William E. Horner, M. D., Adjunct Professor of Anatomy; and

William P. Dewees, M. D., Adjunct Professor of Midwifery.

Full courses of lectures, about four months in duration, are annually delivered upon each of these branches, with the single exception of the institutes of medicine, which being attached to the subject of the practice, of itself the most