Jonathan Pearson, A.M., Asst. Prof. Nat. Phil, and Chem. William Kelly, A.B., H. Nott, Register. The number of the Senior class graduated at the Commencement on the fourth Wednesday in July, 1842, was ninety-six; and the whole number on the catalogue of the undergraduates, for the year which then terminated, was two hundred and sixty-five. Candidates for admission to the Freshmen class, are examined in English, Latin, and Greek grammar; in Virgil, Sallust, Cicero's Select Orations, the Gospels in Greek, and Jacob's Greek Reader, and in Arithmetic and Geography. For admission to any other class, the examination is made in the studies of the preceding class. Students are received, also, not as regular members of the college, but to prosecute any branch for which they are fitted, provided they submit to the college rules. The course of study for the four years, embraces: 1. Rhetoric, Elocution, and General Criticism; 2. Ancient Languages; 3. Modern Languages; 4. Oriental Languages and Literature; 5. Mathematics; 6. Physical Science; 7. Physiology, Natural History, &c.; 8. Moral and Political Science. The annual expense for college bills, and board in the Commons Hall, is $108 to $115; for fuel and light, $8.50; for washing, $6 to $8. The college library, and other collections of books within its walls, embrace about thirteen thousand volumes. The college has charity funds which yield rising of $3,000. HAMILTON COLLEGE. Founded in 1812. Situated in the village of Clinton, in Oneida county, and about ten miles from Utica. The general control of its affairs is as follows: vested in a board of twenty-four trustees, Rev. Henry Davis, D.D., Clinton. John J. Knox, Esq., Augusta. Benjamin W. Dwight, Esq., Clinton, Secretary and Treasurer. The immediate government and discipline of the students, are vested in the college faculty, consisting of the following persons: Rev. Simeon North, LL.D., President, and Prof. Intellectual Phil. Rev. Henry Mandeville, A.M., Prof. Mor. Phil. and Belles Let. Marcus Catlin, A.M., Prof. Math. and Astronomy. John Finley Smith, A.M., Dexter Prof. of Lang. The Maynard Professorship of Law, History, Civil Polity and Political Economy, endowed by the late William Maynard, Esq., is vacant. Commencement is held on the 4th Wednesday in July. The class last graduated numbered twenty; and the whole number of undergraduates on the catalogue for the year, was one hundred and twelve. The studies preparatory to entering the Freshman class, are grammar in English, Latin, and Greek; Sallust, or Cæsar; Virgil, Cicero, Greek Reader, Geography and Arithmetic. The course for the four years is much as in other colleges. The necessary annual expense for the first two years, is from about $75 to $100; for the last two years, about $85 to $113. The college library, and other libraries within its walls, embrace about nine thousand volumes. GENEVA COLLEGE.. Chartered in 1825; and situated on the elevated banks of Seneca Lake, in the village of Geneva, Ontario county. The general control of its affairs is vested in a board of twenty-four trustees, as follow: James Rees, Chairman, Rev. John Churchill Rudd, D.D., Rev. Pierre Paris Irving, M. A, William Kerley Strong, Robert Carter Nicholas, Abraham Dox, James Carler, M.D., Rev.Henry John Whitehouse, D.D. Gavia Lawson Rose, M.D., OFFICERS OF INSTRUCTION AND GOVERNMENT. Rev. Benjamin Hale, D.D., President. Rev. Benjamin Hale, D.D., Startin Prof. of the Evidence of Christianity. Gen. Joseph Gardiner Swift, M.A., Prof. Statistics and Civ. Engineering. Theodore Irving, M.A., Prof. History, Mod. Lang., and Belles Let. Rev. Edward Bourns, M.A., Adjunct Prof. Lat. and Gr. Lang. Faculty of Medicine. Thomas Spencer, M.D., Prof of Inst. and Prac. of Med. and Dean of the Charles Broadhead Coventry, M.D., Prof. Obst. and Med. Jur. James Hadley, M.D., Prof. Chem. and Pharmacy. John De La Mater, M.D., Prof. Mat. Med. and General Pathology. Thomas Rush Spencer, M.D., Adjunct Prof. Mat. Med. and Gen. Path. The annual college commencement is held on the first Wednesday in August, and the first session of the collegiate year begins on Thursday morning, six weeks from the annual commencement. College charges, including room-rent, tuition, &c., $45 for the year; payable in advance, $15 at the beginning of each term. The annual session of the Medical Department commences on the first Tuesday of October and continues sixteen weeks. The fees for all the lectures are $62: payable in advance. The medical commencement is held at the close of the session. Fee for the medical degree, $20. MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS. COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. This valuable institution is situated on Crosby-street, in the city of New-York, where lectures are delivered by its Professors in the various departments of medical science. It is governed by a board of twenty-five trustees, the officers of which are the following: S. Augustine Smith, M.D., President. Thomas Cock, M.D., Vice- Prest. FACULTY OF THE COLLEGE. J. Augustine Smith, M.D., Professor of Physiology. Joseph M. Smith, M.D., Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and Clinical Medicine. John B. Beck, M.D., Prof. of Materia Medica and Med. Jurisprudence. John Torrey, M.D., Professor of Chemistry and Botany. Robert Watts, Jr., M.D., Professor of Anatomy. Willard Parker, M.D., Professor of the Principles and Practice of Sur- Chandler R. Gilman, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and the Diseases of James Quackenboss, M.D., Demonstrator of Anatomy. The winter session, (sub-graduate course,) begins annually on the first Monday of November, and continues until the first of the following March. The fee for the full course of lectures by all the Professors, is $108: but the students are not required to take out all the tickets, during one session. The Matriculation fee is $5, and entitles the student to the use of the college library. Graduation fee, $25. PRACTICAL ANATOMY. To make the college a more thorough school of Practical Anatomy, the Regents of the University have established a Demonstrator's or Dissecting Room Ticket. The room will be opened on the first Monday of October, under the general supervision of the Professor of Anatomy. The Demonstrator will attend at such hours during the day and evening as may be convenient to his class. Attendance in this dissecting-room and at the the Demonstrations, is optional; but every student is earnsstly advised to avail himself of the opportunity. Tickets, $5. Private rooms are provided, at a small expense, for physicians who may wish to dissect. GRADUATION. Candidates for the degree of Doctor of Medicine must have attended two full courses of lectures, the last in this college; they must also have studied Medicine for three years, under the direction of a regular physician, and have attained the age of twenty-one. Certificates of time and age must be furnished. Each candidate is required to write a Thesis on some subject connected with the science of Medicine, and to hand it in previous to his examination. The examination of candidates takes place semi-annually: that for graduating in the spring, commences on the first of March, and that for graduation in the fall, on the second Tuesday in September. Students have access to the New-York Hospital for a fee of $6, which also entitles them to the use of the library, and they have free access to the practice of the New-York Eye Infirmary. ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE. The Albany Medical College was chartered February 16, 1839. The charter empowers the trustees to confer the degree of Doctor of Medicine, on the recommendation of the faculty and of three of the curators. The college edifice, which is of brick, three stories high, 120 feet front by 50 feet deep, belongs, with its grounds, to the corporation of the city of Albany, and has been leased to the trustees of the college for twenty years, at the nominal rent of $1 per year. It is very eligibly situated in Eagle-street, at a short distance from the Capitol. The expense of fitting up the building, and providing the necessary apparatus, was defrayed by the voluntary contributions of the citizens of Albany. Since that time, the Legislature has appropriated $15,000 for improving the building, musuem and library. Of this sum $10,000 have already been expended, and the college possesses new facilities for demonstrations and for study, at least equal to those found in any other Medical ollege in this country. The Museum contains a great number of specimens of healthy and morbid Human Anatomy, of Comparative Anatomy, of Zoology, and of Mineralogy. It contains also a full set of Dr. Thibert's beautiful models of Pathological Anatomy, and Dr. Auzoux's mannikins and models of healthy anatomy. It is at all times open to students, for the purposes of study. Besides the library for reference, a collection of all the standard elementary works is set apart for the use of the students during their attendance on lectures, without any charge. Ample opportunities are afforded for the study of Practical Anatomy. Saturdays are devoted to clinical instruction, and students have an opportunity of seeing a great number of cases of disease, and of witnessing surgical operations. The annual course of lectures commences on the first Tuesday in October, and continues sixteen weeks. Six lectures are delivered daily, during the course. The fees for a full course of lectures, are $70. The Matriculation fee is $5. The Graduation fee is $20. The requirements for graduation are the same as at other incorporated medical schools in this state. The following are the names of the Faculty Professors: OFFICERS. Alden March, M.D., President. T. Romeyn Beck, M.D., Librarian. Alden March, M.D., Prof. of the Principles and Practice of Surgery. Ebenezer Emmons, M.D., Prof. of Obstetrics and Natural History. James H. Armsby, M.D., Prof. of Anatomy. Thomas Hun, M.D., Prof. of the Institutes of Medicine. CURATORS. Platt Williams, M.D., Mason F. Cogswell, M.D., James P. Boyd, M.D. NEW-YORK STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY. The act to incorporate Medical Societies, for the purpose of regulating the practice of Physic and Surgery in this state, was passed the 4th of April, 1806. Under this act the Medical Society of the State of New-York organised in February, 1807. The following are its officers for the present year, elected Feb. 7th, 1843: Dr. Samuel White, of Hudson, President. Dr. T. Romeyn Beck, Dr. James McNaughton, and Dr. Joel A. Wing. COMMITTEE ON PRIZE QUESTIONS. Dr. James McNaughton, Dr. Jonathan Eights, and Dr. T. Romeyn Beck. The society is composed of one delegate from each county that has a medical society organised, and sends a delegate to the state society, and the society elects annually two permanent members and two honorary members. The delegates are elected by their county societies to serve for four years. To afford facility in the examination of candidates for License to practice, the state is divided into four Censor Districts, the southern, eastern, middle and western. The Southern, composed of the 1st and 2d Senate Districts. "Eastern, "Middle, "Western, Three Censors are appointed in each of these districts. The society publishes its transactions annually, together with the annual address of the President, Prize Essays, and such communications as are received from members and from county societies. Its funds are derived from diplomas to its licentiates and voluntary contributions from county societies to the prize fund. BLOOMINGDALE LUNATIC ASYLUM. (Connected with the New-York Hospital.) The Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane is pleasantly situated near the banks of the Hudson River, distant seven miles from the city of New-York, and has attached to it forty acres of land, laid out in gardens, pleasure grounds, gravel walks and farm lots, well adapted to the unfortunate inmates. The building is erected on one of the most elevated and healthy sites on the Island, and sufficiently retired for the comfort and convenience of the patients. These are under the immediate superintendence of a skilful physician, who has devoted a number of years to this particular branch of medical science, and has visited the various lunatic establishments in England, France and Italy; examining the condition of the patients, and inquiring minutely into the mode of treatment pursued therein. The ordinary affairs of the house are managed by a warden and matron, and a sufficient number of kind and careful nurses, are always ready to attend to the wants and comforts of the patients. The whole establishment is under the general direction of a Committee taken from and appointed by the Board of Governors of the New-York Hospital. HUDSON LUNATIC ASYLUM. This asylum was established in 1830, by Dr. Samuel White, of the city of Hudson. It is a spacious stone structure, pleasantly situated on one of the back streets of the city, which is distinguished for salubrity, and the physical circumstances of position, air, water, prospect and general tranquility, are all favorable to the object of such an institution. Since the establishment of this asylum, it has received 580 patients in all. During the year 1842, the number received was 71. Of these 12 had recently become insane, 10 of whom were cured, and the other two were recovering. Of the 22 cases of long standing, four were cured, two were recovering, 15 were much benefited, and one died. This asylum is a private institution, and the patients are under the immediate charge of the proprietors, Dr. S. White, a physician of established reputation and great experience, and his son, Dr. George H. White. Their testimony concurs with that of all others, who have had the management of the insane, on the modern system of moral treatment combined with regimen, air, exercise and medicines when the bodily condition requires them, namely, that cases of recent insanity can almost always be cured, but that they sooner become chronic and inveterate than mere bodily disease. |