Two discourses dealing with medical education in early New York / by Samuel Bard.

  • Bard, Samuel, 1742-1821.
Date:
1921
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Credit: Two discourses dealing with medical education in early New York / by Samuel Bard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE PREFACE. TH E Scheme of a Public Hofpital for the Reception of the poor Sick of this Government and City, is a Subje<$, which for a long Time part, has employed the Attention of many charitable and benevolent Inhabitants ; particularly of thofc Gentlemeii eog&gcd in the practice of Phyfic, and Offices of Religion, whofe Profeffions afford them the njoft frequent Opportunities of knowing the great Neceffity there is for fueh an Institution* In particular, a Plan has often been propofed, and the moft proper Method for putting it ii* Execution eon{id$rcd, by a Set of Medical Gentlemen, who have formed them felves into a Society for promoting the Knowledge, and extending the Ufefulnefs of their Profeffion : and it has been a Refolutioa entered upon the Minutes Of that Society, from its firft Inftitu7 tion, that, they fhould Addreff the Legifiaturc upon that Subjeft, on the firft favourable Op~ portunity. It