Reminiscenses of medical teaching and teachers in New York : an address introductory to a course of lectures, at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, session of 1850-51 / by Valentine Mott.

  • Mott, Valentine, 1785-1865.
Date:
1850
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    to the glories of a Washington, a Putman, a Gates, and a Lee, to whose genius the victory of which he boasts may be due, can tell, after all, but little of the conflicts in which he participated, save the part which he immediately played, and the leader under whom he acted. But I have never heard this called egotism, and no such charge, I trust, will be brought against me, even though I use the ego ipse somewhat frequently during the following remarks. I graduated in the year 1806, a student of the Medical Faculty of Columbia College, in this city, at that time the only Medical School, and which had then existed for many years. It was originally called King's College, but at the close of the war, received the name of Columbia College, and the organiza- tion of its Medical Faculty was completed in 1792. The Faculty at the time of my attendance, was con- stituted as follows : The President, and Professor of Anatomy and Surgery, was Dr. Wright Post; Dr. D. Hosack occupied the chair of Materia Medica and Botany ; Dr. Hamersley, that of the Institutes and Practice; Dr. Stringham, that of Chemistry; and Dr. J. R. B. Rogers, that of Midwifery and the Diseases of Women and Children. The reputation of the two former of these gentle- men is matter of Medical History, but of all of them I shall briefly relate my personal reminiscences. Wright Post was at that time a man of about forty years of age, tall, handsome, and of fashionable ex- terior, wore long whiskers and his hair powdered and turned back and tied in a queue. Those who recollect his thin worn figure in his later years, wrapped in a furred surtout, could scarcely have re- cognised in him the elegant gentleman of my early