[List of succesful medical candidates for 1808 & titles of their theses.

  • University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine
Date:
[1809]
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Credit: [List of succesful medical candidates for 1808 & titles of their theses. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Pennsylvania is rapidly increasing in respectability, and in the number of its pupils. ' The aggregate amount of the Students, during the last winter, was not less than 270, or 275. The greatest number of these were from Pennsylvania, and from the states south and west of Pennsylvania. A few were from New-Eng- land; a greater number from the state of New-Jerseyr; two or three from the West-India Islands; and at least two from Europe. On the 27th of April last, a public examination of the Medical Candidates was held in the presence of the Trustees and Faculty of the University, and a number of the citizens; and on the following day, the degree of Doctor of Medicine wsis conferred upon sixty gentle¬ men, each of whom had written and submitted to the Medical Professors an Inaugural Dissertation, which was publicly defended. The following is a list of the Graduates, a notice of the States or countries from which, they came, or in which they reside, and the title of their ■ dissertations. 1. Branch T. Archer, of Virginia, On Cutaneous Ab¬ sorption. '