Statement : a statement of the facts connected with the late re-organization of the faculty of the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College : together with a documentary history of said department, from its origin to the present time.

  • Wiltbank, John, 1806-1860.
Date:
[1856?]
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Credit: Statement : a statement of the facts connected with the late re-organization of the faculty of the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College : together with a documentary history of said department, from its origin to the present time. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    certain institution in the City of Philadelphia, to confer degrees in medicine, it will be impossible for any sane mind to conclude that by either Act is this institution planted in the County of Adams, authorized either to create, or to maintain, a medical department in the City of Philadelphia. Here, then, let us pause for a moment, and reviewing the history already given, inquire how were Dr. McClellan and his Associates related to this medical institution, and under what (if any) external allegiance after the passage of the Act of 1840? If it be true, as we think we have conclusively shown, that this Gymnasium at Gettysburg, in the County of Adams, could not lawfully create, or control, this medical institution in the City of Philadelphia, the correlative proposition is true, that no allegiance was due from the medical school to the institu- tion at Gettysburg. And how in truth and in justice can it be otherwise ? For what were these gentlemen instructors in medicine indebted to the College at Gettysburg? Not for their original establishment as associated instructors in medi- cine ; for to them as to other citizens, belonged the right of voluntary association for this, as for any other lawful purposes. Not the power of Conferring degrees; for this by the Act of 1840 is expressly conferred on these gentlemen themselves, thus associated as professors. Not for a system of instruction; that is required to conform to the system of the University of Pennsylvania. Not for a building; that was provided for them as we shall hereafter show under another charter granted in 1849, and then only by their own liberality and that of their friends. If a College is the institution of associated teachers with a prescribed system of instruction—endued with the power of expressing by the conferring of a degree, its sense of the pro- ficiency and competency of its pupils; and provided with a building and appurtenances appropriate for its business of instruction we ask; for which one of these attributes of a College, to say nothing of them all, is this indebted to the Gettysburg Institution':