VALEDICTORY  ADDRESS
DELIVERED AT THE
SEVENTH ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT
i  HOKEOPATHIC   MEDICAL  COLLEGE,
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OF PENNSYLVANIA,
MAECH 1, 1855.
WILLIAM A. GARDINER, M. D,


     PROfESBOR OF ANATOMV AND PHTSIOLOGT.
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        PHILADELPHIA:


KING & BAIRD, PRINTERS, No. 9 SANSOM STREET.


             1855. 
 
VALEDICTORY  ADDRESS
DELIVERED AT THE
SEVENTH ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT
HOMEOPATHIC  MEDICAL  COLLEGE,


         OF PENNSYLVANIA,

              MARCH 1, 1855.

                  BY 1
      WILLIAM  A. GARDINER, M. D.,
PROFESSOR OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGT.
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        P H.L.L ADELPHIA:
KING & BAIRD, PRINTERS, No. 9 SANSOM STREET.
             1855. 
 
VALEDICTORY  ADDRESS.
 Gentlemen of the Graduating Class :

   My colleagues have assigned me the pleasing duty of addressing
 you at this  our last interview.  To-day has been set apart as the
 period for your professional inauguration, an event in the history
 of each one of you, to which you have doubtless looked forward with
 mingled feelings of pleasure and  solicitude.  Permit me to con-
 gratulate you upon its happy consummation.  You have passed
 through the curriculum of professional pupilage, as ordained by the
 statutes  of Medical Colleges.  You have diligently pursued a series
 of studies, and patiently endured  the labors and trials necessarily
 attendant upon the career of Medical Students.   You now come
 prepared to partake of  the privileges, and to wear the honors, pecu-
 liar to your chosen  profession.   I am happy to be able to assert to
 this audience, that you are worthy  recipients  of  all the honors,
 titles, and  immunities which  can  be conferred upon you by your
 Alma Mater.  A new era now opens to your fertile minds; old associa-
 tions are to be destroyed, and new and more important relationships
 formed.  You are about to enter into full fellowship with a noble
 and time-honored fraternity.   This evolution  involves many new
 duties,  and engenders  many serious  reflections; and now, on the
 eve of its assumption, will you pardon me, if I offer you briefly some
 parting words of counsel ?
  Your  hearts are  buoyant with the elasticity of youth; a pano-
 ramic view of the future is spread out  to your mind's eye, like  a
 pleasing and  beautifully colored landscape.   Not  a spot appears
 upon the canvass  to darken  the  ardor  of  your  ambition.   The
 voyage  of life appears  a history of unceasing and  incessant pleas-
ing events.    Not a cloud  obscures  the  horizon  of your hopes. 
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With a fair field, an open sky, and an unquenchable zeal, you feel
prepared to contend with an  Hercules in the battle of life.  Be it
so.   May it never  be otherwise.  May your present bright hopes
be fully realized in the revelations of  the future.  May your zeal
never  be  dampened by unexpected reverses.   May opposing in-
fluences always  yield  to your manly efforts.    May you float on
the stream of life, with  pleasant breezes, with  fair  winds, and a
flooding tide.
  You now stand  upon the  threshold of a  life  of usefulness and
honor, and it  is our purpose at present briefly to lay before you
the  nature of the responsibilities you assume  and  of the duties
which  will be  required  of you.   What are the purposes  of the
medical profession ?  Let this question come home to the minds of
each one in its full bearing, and awaken a response.
  The profession of Medicine is as honorable as it is ancient; its
existence  has  been coeval  with  the  existence of the human race.
Instinctively it sprung into being at the fall of man.  Rude and im-
perfect as it must necessarily have been, it nevertheless performed
a service.  It  has had its representatives in  every age, and in all
the countries of the  globe, in  the patriarchal ages, at the siege of
Troy,  in  the  temples of  Egypt, in  the  classic halls  of  ancient
Greece, in the jungles of India, on the sands of Arabia, and in the
barber shops of  the  middle ages.  At the present time, the institu-
tions of medical learning  in Germany, France, England, Scotland
and America,  form an important  feature, and rank high in value.
  The profession of Medicine is not an undertaking  generated by
the caprices of fanciful minds.   Disease must have a remedy.  The
abatement and extinguishing of suffering is the instinctive impulse
of human  nature.  Remedial measures are brought into requisition
wherever  fallen man exists.  The sphere of duty which it  begets
in  its votaries,  is  not calculated  to  enlist  the attention  of the
romancer,  the enterprising  merchant, the  thrifty mechanic, or the
calculating politician.  They, however, are ever willing recipients of
its  favors,  and passively acknowledge  its value, on the destinies of
human life.  Castles built of air, and peopled with angel images and
hopes, the ruling  rates of  commodities on change, the condition of
the cotton crop  of the South, or the growth of grain  at  the  North,
and their influences on the  market, the ruling  rates of exchange, 
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or the discount of notes of hand and bills of  exchequer, the polity
of nations, and the effectual accomplishment of political revolutions,
with the government of the different departments of state, are sub-
jects foreign to the legitimate purposes of the Medical profession.
They receive, however, a passing  notice  from the physician, as  a
member of the common community, but his legitimate duties rest on
a  more elevated platform.  The physician has under his guidance,
care and protection, what is of more value than all  these.  In his
noble, yet humble and quiet position, he is the guardian of the hap-
piness, health, and lives of his fellow-men. What is more valued ?
Is not health a blessing?   Is  not life dearer than the glittering gold
of the El Dorado, or  the aggregate riches of the Indies ?   What
will a man give for  his  life?  When  the king  is divested of his
crown of diamonds and robes of purple, when the courageous gene-
ral has gallantly led his  troops  to face the guns  of  a contending
enemy, when the brave soldier  is  lying on  the  blood-stained field
of battle, companioned with his deadly  weapons, when the ambitious
merchant has forsaken his counting-house, when the mechanic has
lain aside his  implements of  industry, when the busy scenes of life
are forsaken for the chamber  of sickness,  when stricken  down with
disease, or  perhaps writhing  in  the  agonies  of death, where then
is their trust ?  Divested of pomp, pride, ambition and shrewdness,
they welcome to their bedside the messenger of  ease  and comfort,
and place their hopes in God and their confidence in  the physician's
skill.  What a relationship !  Bound to society by such ties, wielding
 a  sceptre,  which  exhibits its power,  in  such emergencies,  should
 arouse in your minds  the  loftiest aspiration; it should kindle in
 your bosoms an energy which will  never die, a becoming emulation
 to excel in  all that appertains to a faithful discharge of duty.  Such
 is the sphere into  which  you  are about to enter.  Do you  feel pre-
 pared to assume  its responsibilities ?  Are you fully equipped and
 ready to discharge faithfully all the obligations demanded of you.
 Institute self-examination.  Be fully convinced that  your resources
 are  ample  for any emergency.  Be studious, be faithful, be honest.
 If you are  fully prepared for a  life of mingled pleasures and regrets,
 of joys and sorrows, of successful fortunes and bafiling reverses, of
 alternate triumphs and defeats, then  you are ready  to enter upon
 the active duties of the Medical profession. 
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   But, there  are obligations imposed upon you, as members of a
 scientific profession—you owe a debt to  your predecessors which  it
 is your duty honorably to liquidate.  What  has  given to medicine
 a scientific character, and  by what means has the art of medicine
 been perfected ?  Science and art are handmaids.  Science unfolds
 the intricate philosophy of our profession;  art is the adaptation of
 its principles to ends and means.   Science divested of art is of but
 little benefit to mankind; art divested of science, is like a ship at
 sea without a rudder, and may do injury to mankind.   Science can
 live and grow in the  library; art, based upon science, is the wel-
 come messenger of the sick room  or  the dying chamber.  Science
 evolves and springs into activity principles, which art assumes and
 renders practical.
   According to your natural and acquired abilities, it is your duty
 to appropriate a portion of your time and leisure to the improvement
 of the science and art of your profession.  You are placed in  a
 situation where you can accomplish immense good for your associates
 and for society.   Perfection  has not  yet been attained.  There are
 many  intricate  subjects  which invite  farther investigation,  and
 promise ample reward for labor.  There are diseases  which yet
 baffle the skill of the physician.   Are  these  diseases ever to be
 curable ?   If so, the  remedy has  yet to be discovered and made
 public.  Progression  is the  watchword  of the medical  profession.
 To be stationary  is equivalent to unfitness for active  service.   Be
 fellow workmen.  Bright examples exist in the history of medicine,
 as incentives for activity—a  galaxy of names adorn the pathway—
 Hippocrates, Galen, Celsus, Vesalius, Stahl, Chesselden,  Monroe,
 Pare, Broussais,  Cullen,  Sydenham,  Hahnemann,  Hunter,  Bell,
 Cooper, Physick, Eberle, Dewees, Chapman, and a  long list, shine
 out as stars of the first magnitude in a glorious constellation.  They
have performed a service for  humanity.   They now sleep from their
labors, but their goodly acts and deeds live.   They have  left behind
them a memento more enduring than a chiseled urn or gilded shaft.
They have written their  labors  in  the  archives  of the  profession.
In  ponderous  yet dusty  volumes they breathe the spirit  of  their
lives.    Emulate  their  zeal—wear  the mantle  of their  greatness,
and accomplish, if possible, an equal good  for the profession  and
mankind.   Be living, breathing, and  industrious disciples.  Stand 
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upon your identity, and through individual exertion  and labor, pen
your own biographies, and devise them as a legacy to posterity.
  You profess to be adherents of a special philosophy in the art of
 Medicine.   I am not disposed, if the  time and opportunity were
 appropriate, to  enter upon a discussion of its merits.   These ques-
 tions  have already been examined, your minds  are  clear upon  the
 subject.  I am  prepared to announce, however, that the  Homoeo-
 pathic law is the  only true law in the  treatment of disease.  This
 annunciation of course  does not demand  an admission from those
 who honestly differ  from us in opinion.  They have been educated
 in the details of an opposite law.   Time  and experience will  be
 the judges, and if statistics are honestly  chronicled, the question
 will, ere long, be settled beyond cavil.  We believe the law of simile
 to be the only true law  of cure—it dictates a new arrangement of
 the articles composing the materia medica—it points to a  precision
 in administration which  has  been attained by no other source.   It
 stands erect.  Having a true basis, it is unshaken by the  profound
 arguments of classic minds. Scathing satire has failed to impede its
 progress, and it bears the relation to-day of a boon to society, given
 to man from the hand of God himself.  The therapeutic department
 of the profession  has  been defective for centuries, and why ?  Not
 owing to the sparsity of material, but because the law of application
 was erroneous.   Nature's laws  must be  obeyed, and the  law of
 similia in the treatment of disease is one of the central laws.  Ever
 act in obedience to its teachings;  let your investigations be con-
 ducted in an accordant spirit, and you will accomplish for the pro-
 fession an unlimited good, which will eventually be reflected to  all
 grades and conditions of society.
  As members of an honorable profession, it is your duty to main-
 tain becoming dignity.   Never stain its escutcheon by an unprofes-
 sional or unmanly act.   Be dignified, be courteous, and entertain
 fraternal feelings  towards the entire brotherhood.   Never  permit
 a difference of  sentiment  to produce disrespect.  Recollect, what-
 ever individual  differences exist, we are all members  of the same
 fraternity, striving to  accomplish similar results—the  cure of  dis-
 ease.    The divisions,  cliques, and feuds,  which have existed in
 the ranks, have produced a detrimental influence, and have shaken
the confidence  of  the  public in the medical  profession.   These 
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unwarrantable and ungentlemanly schisms have  thrown fire-brands
of discord, and set up a mutiny.   The promulgation of hypothesis,
and of individual opinion, cannot  be objected to;  it is a common
privilege.   Let  it  be so considered, and  in a conciliatory spirit
let us  meet on a  common  platform, entertaining  mutual friendly
regard.  Impelled by such  feelings, the shreds of discord,  which
have existed, will be  annihilated, and  mutual esteem  and  regard
will be substituted in their stead, and we will present to society a
solid compact, united by common principles, ties, and feelings.
   To-day you place yourselves under new obligations to your  fellow
men.  You assume the position of a guardian, a counsellor  and a
confidential friend;  a protector of the health of your  particular
circle.   To guard them by  your counsel, to protect  them by your
learning and  skill, to stand as a mediator, to offer to them honestly,
faithfully,  and  competently,  the  vast  resources  of  knowledge.
Your duties  are sacred, responsible and honorable.   You will have
confided to your charge the health and lives of your fellow men.
Discharge  your  duties faithfully.  You will be the  confident of  the
parent and the protector of  the child. Your sphere of duty is  in the
midst of disease, pestilence, and suffering.  When the stoutest hearts
shrink  from  duty, you must stand unshaken, and firmly apply the
resources  of your  art; and when  disease makes a mockery of your
efforts and skill, you must soften the footsteps of the pale angel of
death.  You will encounter scenes  in your career which  will awaken
the sympathies of your nature.  Your utmost  endeavors to cure  dis-
ease, the faithful application of the administration of art, will often
prove futile, and  your patients will descend into the grave despite
your strongest efforts.  But do not be discouraged; decay  is  the
common lot of all created nature, and it is in accordance with  the
Divine law.  If after having  faithfully discharged  your duty, your
efforts should prove unavailing, you  stand honorably acquitted.
   There are  many scenes in the life of the physician, which are  cal-
culated to awaken the strongest sympathies of his nature.  He is to
witness disease,  suffering  and distress, in their various forms.   His
duties  are alike in all circumstances and conditions  of society.   The
rich and the poor are alike the recipients of his skill and attention.
In marbled halls, with perfumed couches, adorned with costly drapery,
his services are required; in  the cheerless hovel, with its unfurnished 
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apartment, and pallet of straw, his attention is also demanded.  Doc-
tors are public servants. Wealth makes no distinction. The governor
and his subject, the man of affluence, and the beggar at his door,
the philanthropist and the miser, equally demand  the attention and
skill of the physician.
   Gentlemen, ever be kind to the poor, they  are  God's chosen peo-
ple.   The  poor form the rounds in  the ladder by which you  are
to enter the habitations of the rich.   The physician who would
spurn  from his door a  suffering  victim, because  the usual fee for
services could not be guaranteed, is unworthy his vocation.   He who
values his services by dollars and cents, is worse than the miser, who
dies of starvation, while his head is pillowed on a bag of gold.  The
profession acknowledges  no such  standard.  Quacks and renegades,
deceivers of society, who have the effrontery to prostitute the ele-
vated purposes of the medical  profession, and  make it  subservient
to their own  base intentions, deserve to be  marked like Cain and
banished from the circles of civilized life.
   The country is now overrun by a horde of adventurers, who have
been magically transformed from " Knights of the razor or the  lap
stone" to veritable doctors—travelling the country from Maine to
California, Or from the Atlantic to the Pacific, with flaming adver-
tisements,  giving  an account  of miraculous cures, effected by  a
favorite panacea, or perhaps a Katholicon adapted for the relief of
all the pains, aches and  ills ever afflicting humanity, or a Magnetic
Sugar, whose electrical  affinities will absolutely frighten from  the
system all abnormal action.   Such  a  degree  of human depravity
is lamentable,  and what is still more surprising, is  that  there  are
individuals of  intelligence  and  good common  sense who can  be
duped by such  charlatans.  Do not be  discouraged  by these in-
fluences; meet them decidedly, manly and frankly.   Ever strive to
maintain the honorable position and bearing of your adopted profes-
sion.  Never desert the principles  of your fathers in the cause ; keep
them in view;  they will act, as a Polar star to  your course, and  a
compass for your voyage.
   You are now about to thread your  way into  different  sections of
the globe,  to exercise your talents and  skill.   We may never meet
again.  But in each other's memory will be cherished the vivid recol-
lections of the past, the  pleasing interviews,  the social intercourse, 
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and  the profitable investigations  that have mutually existed, will
ever form  a pleasing link in the  chain of life.   I must bid you fare-
well.   Go to your fields of labor.   Bear with you, our best wishes,
our warmest sympathies and ardent hopes.  Stand erect in your manly
greatness, honor  your profession.   Strive to equip yourselves fully
for its varied duties.  Mark out a free, unlimited, and determined
course.  Investigate thoroughly, adopt cautiously, and omit nothing
that will add to your qualifications. May you prove honest workmen,
every way worthy of your calling.  There is a temple to be erected,
and it is your duty and privilege to chisel a fragment.  The founda-
tion was planted in past centuries, it is now building, and  its stately
proportions stand out in view of  every aspirant.  The diminutive
seed of knowledge, when deposited  in a soil suited to its  nutrition,
germinates, springs up and attains maturity of growth.  It buds and
blossoms,  and disseminates its  fragrant  aroma through all grades
and ranks of society. 
MATRICULANTS  OF THE COLLEGE.
                 session of 1854-55.

     NAME.                                  RESIDENCE.
*Harrison 0. Apthorp,...........................Massachusetts.
 Benjamin Barr,..................................Pennsylvania.
 Joshua T. Baker,.................................Pennsylvania.
 L. Augustus Billisoly,...........................Virginia.
 James C. Burbank,..............................Pennsylvania.
 D. F. Bishop, M. D.,...........................New York.
 0. C. Brickley,..................................Pennsylvania.
 S. S. Brooks,  M. D.,............................Pennsylvania.
 J. Kemper Bryant,.................. ...........Pennsylvania.
 T. Crowell Bunting,.............................Pennsylvania.
 Richard Carrigue,................................Massachusetts.
 Samuel  Carrels, M. D.,,........................New Jersey.
 J. K. Clark, M.  D.;.............................Massachusetts.
 Thomas  Conrad,.................................New Jersey.
 Asa S. Couch,....................................Vermont.
 Daniel  Coxe,......................................Pennsylvania.
 Charles C. Cresson,..............................Pennsylvania.
 Charles A. Dake, M.D,.,.......................New York.
 Addington K. Davenport,......................Rhode Island.
 Alfred Davis,.....................................Pennsylvania.
 John Dowling, Jr.,..............................Pennsylvania.
 Wm. D. Downing, M. D.,......................Pennsylvania.
 Jacob R. Earhart,...............................Ohio.
 Robert W. Eyre,.................................Pennsylvania.
 J. H. Fish,........................................New Jersey.
 Samuel  M. Fletcher,............................Pennsylvania.
 E. P. Gaylord,  M. D.,..........................New York.
 John F.  Geary,.................................Pennsylvania.
 Wm. Grafius, M. D.,............................Pennsylvania.
 J. J. Griffiths,....................................Pennsylvania.
                 * Dep. Anat. and I'hys. 
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      NAME.                                 RESIDENCE.
Jos.  F. Harvey,..................................Pennsylvania.
Felix M. Havens,................................Canada West.
Handy Harris,...............................  ....Massachusetts.
John H. Haesler,................................Pennsylvania.
Henry A. Haesler,..............................Pennsylvania.
James A. Herron,...............................Pennsylvania.
David R. Hindman,.............................Pennsylvania.
John R. Howard,................................Alabama.
John Hyde,.......................................New Jersey.
Damon  Y. Hyde,................................Vermont.
Abram M. Ingham,..............................Pennsylvania.
Alexander Irons,.................................Pennsylvania.
Richard  S. James,...............................Pennsylvania.
A.  S. Jones,......................................New Jersey.
P.  0.  Johnson,  M. D.,.........................Illinois.
Willard A. Kitts,................................New York.
J. S. Kimball,....................................New York.
J. E. Linnell, M. D.,...........................Massachusetts.
Henry H. G. Lungren,.........................Pennsylvania.
Archibald C. McCants,.........................Florida.
Edwin M. McAffee,.............................Pennsylvania.
Robert J. McClatchey,..........................Pennsylvania.
E.  D. Miles, M. D.,.............................Ohio.
Calvin E. Morse,.................................Massachusetts.
Wm. Murphy, M. D.,...........................Pennsylvania.
Henry Nichol,....................................Scotland.
Levi E. Ober, M. D.,..........................Illinois.
Joseph H. Piatt,.................................New York.
Theodore Quick,.................................New York.
John N. Reed,....................................Massachusetts.
Robert D. Rhodes,..............................New York.
Jacob Rich,.......................................New York.
 John C. Rutter,..................................Pennsylvania.
 Thaddeus E. Sanger,............................Ohio.
 Charles F. Saunders,............................Rhode Island.
 Alexander R. Shaw,.............................Pennsylvania.
 John W. Sykes,..................................New York.
 P, C  Skiff,  M.  D.,..............................Connecticut.
 Mortimer Slocum,................................New York.
 Wm. Smith,......................................England. 
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   NAME.                                    RESIDENCE.
Henry R. Thayer,...............................Pennsylvania.
Henry Thomas,...................................England.
Enoch Towner,................................... Pennsylvania.
Tullio S.Verdi,...................................Italy
Jos. S. Walter,...................................Pennsylvania.
George J. Waggoner,...........................Iowa.
Jos. B. Ward,...................................New Jersey.
Soloman  C Warren,..............................New York.
Walter M. Williamson,.........................Pennsylvania.
Gabriel F. Wisner,..............................New York.
Louis de V. Wilder,..............................New York.
Samuel Wilcox,..................................Pennsylvania.
George Wolfe,....................................Pennsylvania. 
GRADUATES  OF  1855.
  At a Public Commencement, held March 1st, 1855, in the Musical Fund Hall, the Degree cf the
College was conferred, by the Hon. A. V. Parsons, President, upon the following gentlemen :—
     Name.
Joshua T. Baker,
Benjamin Barr,
L. Augustus Billisoly,
0. C. Brickley,
T. Crowel Bunting,
Samuel Carels,
Asa S.  Couch,
Charles C. Cresson,
Charles A. Dake,
Addington K. Davenport,
Jacob R. Earhart,
J. H. Fish,
Joseph H. Gallagher,
John J. Geary,
Joseph F. Harvey,
Handy Harris,
John R.  Howard,
Damon Y. Hyde,
Richard  S. James,
Perry 0. Johnston,
Edwin M. McAffee,
A. C. McCants,
 Theodore Quick,
John N.  Reed,
John C.  Rutter,
Charles F. Saunders,
Mortimer Slocum,
 William Smith,
 George R. Starkey,
John W. Sykes,
 H. Reidel Thayer,
 Henry Thomas,
 George J. Waggoner,
 Solomon C.  Warren,
 Joseph L. Walter,
 Louis de V. Wilder,
 Gabriel  F. Wisner,
 George Wolfe,
 Residence.
Pennsylvania,
Pennsylvania,
Virginia,
Pennsylvania,
Pennsylvania,
New Jersey,
Vermont,
Pennsylvania,
New York,
Rhode Island,
Ohio,
New Jersey,
Pennsylvania,
Pennsylvania,
Pennsylvania,
Massachusetts,
Alabama,
Vermont,
Pennsylvania,
Illinois,
Pennsylvania,
Florida,
New York,
Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island,
New York,
England,
 Massachusetts,
New York,
Pennsylvania,
England,
 Iowa,
New York,
Pennsylvania,
New York,
New York,
Pennsylvania,
Subject of Thesis.
Theory of Psora.
Abortion.
The Uterus and its appendages.
Reaction.
Catarrhal inflammation.
Therapeutic Law.
Temperaments.
Pneumonia.
Therapeutic law of Homoeopathy.
Constipation.
Progress of Medical Science.
Duties of a Physician.
Mucous Fever.
Progression of Homoeopathy.
Dysenteria endemica, Seu Epidemica
Bright's disease.
Pneumonia.
Diseases of the Spleen.
Rational Medicine.
Induration.
Cholera Infantum.
Acute Hydrocephalus.
Quackery in high places.
Physiology of Impregnation.
Decline of Allopathy.
Cholera.
Ipecacuanha.
Rationale of Homoeopathy.
Hemoptysis.
Puerperal Peritonitis.
Scarlatina.
Gonorrhoea and its kindred diseases.
Nicotiana Tabacum.
  The Honorary degree was conferred on John A. Ward, New York, George Beak-
ley, New York, Walter Ward, New Jerssy. 
REGULATIONS  OF  THE  COLLEGE.
  The affairs of the Institution are under  the  control of a Board of Managers,
consisting of the President of the College and six gentlemen, elected annually by
the Corporation.
  The Faculty shall have authority to  elect  their own officers, consisting  of a
President and Dean, hold meetings for the  purpose of arranging and  conducting
the business  of their department, and for the preservation of order and decorum
among the medical  students.
   The AVinter  Course  of  Medical Lectures will  begin annually on  the second
Monday in October, and end about the first of March ensuing.
   A candidate for graduation must be of good  moral character, and be possessed
of  sufficient preliminary education, have  attained the age of  twenty-one years,
have applied himself to  the study of medicine  for  three years, attended  two
courses of medical lectures, and  have been, during that time, the private pupil
for two years, of a respectable practitioner of medicine.
   Students who have attended one  or more  full  courses of Lectures in other Medi-
cal  Colleges, may become  candidates  by  attendance upon one full course in  this
Institution.
   The candidate,  when making  application for an examination, must exhibit his
tickets to the Dean, or give other satisfactory evidence to the Faculty, to prove
that the above regulations have been complied with.
   Special examinations in particular cases may be had, with the consent of the
 Faculty.
   The examination of the candidates for graduation will begin about the middle
 of February;  and the commencement for conferring the  Degree of the College,
 shall be  held  by a special mandamus of the Board of Managers, as soon after the
 close of the Lectures as practicable.
   The candidate, on or before the first of February, must deliver to  the Dean of
 the Faculty, a thesis, composed by himself, and in his own handwriting, on  some
 medical subject, which shall  be referred  to one of the Professors  for examination.
   The Essay must be written on thesis paper, of a uniform size,  the  alternate
 page being left blank.
   A thesis may be published by  the candidate, permission of the Faculty being
 first obtained.
    The candidate shall pay  the fees  of  graduation at the  time of  presenting his
 thesis, and in the event of his rejection, the money shall be returned to him. 
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  The  examination shall be conducted in  private, by each Professor, and the
voting, in the case of  every candidate, shall be by ballot.
  A student receiving five affirmative votes shall be entitled to his degree.
  If, in the opinion of the Faculty, a candidate  would be  benefitted by attending
another course of Lectures, he  may withdraw his thesis, without  being considered
as rejected.
  In unsatisfactory cases, the  candidate may avail himself of a  second examina-
tion before the whole  Faculty, with their consent.
  Formal notice  of each satisfactory examination shall be given by the Dean to
the passed candidate, who shall record his  name  and address upon the Register
of Graduates, with the title of his thesis.
  The  names of the  passed candidates are to be  reported by  the Dean  to the
President, who will communicate such report to the Board of Managers, in order
if approved by them,  their mandamus be issued for conferring the  degree.
  A passed candidate  shall not absent himself from the  commencement, without
the permission of the Faculty.

Amount of fees for a full course of lectures (invariably cash)     .    .    .   $100 00
Matriculation fee (paid onco only),.........5 00
Practical Anatomy,............10 00
Graduation fee,.............30 00
Fee for students who have attended two full courses  in other medical  colleges,    50 00
Graduates of other medical colleges,.........30 00
  In order to afford facilities  to students  who are unable to pay the full amount
of fees for a full course  of lectures, five beneficiary students will be received, and
entitled to a full course  of lectures, by paying fifty dollars  each.   The application
for admission to be  made  to  the Faculty previous to the  first  of  September in
each year, and  to be endorsed  by at least two reputable Homoeopathic  physi-
cians, testifying  to the good  moral character  and worthiness  of  the candidate
for such  favor, and his inability to pay.
  The  matriculation  ticket  must  be first obtained of the  Dean, before any other
tickets can be purchased.
  The  tickets must be  taken  by the first  Monday in  December,  except  in  special
cases, to constitute a  full course.
  Students who have attended two  full courses of instruction in this Institution,
shall be admitted to the subsequent courses of the College without further charge.
  The Faculty shall  have  authority  to consider and  decide upon cases of  special
application for admission to the Lectures.
WILLIAM A. GARDINER,  M. D., Dean,
                  No. 120 North Tenth Street. 
 
MEDICAL  COLLEGE  OF  PENNSYLVANIA,
Located in Filbert Street,  above Eleventh,

             PHILADELPHIA.
  The Lectures  of the Regular Course will  commence annually on the
second Monday of October, and continue until the first of March ensuing.

      Amount of Fees for a full Course of Lectures (invariably
          cash,)........$100 00
      Students who have attended two full courses  in other
          Medical Colleges,.....             50 00
      Graduates of other Medical College?,     -    -    -     -  30 00
      Matriculation Fee, paid only once,    -                   5 00
      Practical Anatomy, -    -    -    -    -    -    -     -10 00
      Graduation Fee,       .    -    .    -    -    -    -    30 00

  In order to afford facilities to Students who are unable to pay the full amount
of fees fo" a full  course of lectures, five beneficiary students will be received,
and entitled to a full  course  of lectures, by paying fifty  dollars each.  The
application for admission to  be made to the Faculty previous to the first of
September in each year, and to be endorsed by at least two reputable Homoeo-
pathic physicians, testifying to the good moral character and worthiness of the
candidate for such favor, and  his inability to pay.
  fig^* The Commencement will take place early in March.
                           FACULTY.
Walter Williamson, M. D., Professor of Materia  Medica  and  Thera-
  peutics.
Alvan  E. Small, M.D., Professor of Homoeopathic Institutes, Pathology
  and the Practice of Medicine.
Isaac M. Ward, M. D., Professor of Obstetrics, Diseases of Women and
  Children, and  Medical Jurisprudence.
Matthew Skmple,  M. I)., Professor of  Chemistry and Toxicology.
Jacob Beaklev, M. D., Professor of Surgery.
William A. Gardiner, M. D., Professor of Anatomy and Physiology.

                    WILLIAM  A.  GARDINER, M.D.,Dean,

                                  No. 120 North Tenth St., Philadelphia.
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