ANNUAL ANNOUNCEMENT ■ 
OF THE , 
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 
? ' OF THE 
FRANKLTjy medical 
AND . . 
LITERARY COLLEGE OF ST. LOUIS. 
ST. LOUIS' 
PRINTED X\TTHE REPUBLICAN AND JOB OFFICE. 
1.&4# ANNUAL ANNOUNCEMENT 
OF THE 
MEDICAL DEPABTMEMT 
OF THE 
FRANKLIN MEDICAL 
AND 
LITERARY COLLEGE OF ST. LOUIS 
Addressed to the Physicians and Students of Medicine, the members of the Orders 
of Tree Masons and Odd Fellows, in the Mississippi Valley. 
SESSION OE 1849-50. 
INCORPORATED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, MARCH 12, 1849. 
ST. LOUIS. 
PRINTED BY CHAMBERS & KNAPP. 
1849. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 
OF THE 
FRANKLIN MEDICAL & LITERARY COLLEGE, 
. OF 
ST. LOUIS, MO. 
President (" pro. tern.") of the Board of Trustees, 
R. S. BLENNERHASSETT, ESQ. 
FACULTY OF MEDICINE. 
The course of Lectures in the Medical Department of this Institu- 
tion, will commence on Monday, the 15th of October, and terminate 
on the last of February, under the direction of the following faculty, viz: 
JOHN BARNES, M. D., 
Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine. 
HENRY MURRAY, M. D., 
Professor of Special, General and Surgical Anatomy. 
EDWARD R. ROE, M. D., 
Professor of Physiology, Pathology and Medical Jurisprudence. 
JAMES H. JOHNSON, M. D., 
Professor of the Principle and Practice of Surgery. 
HENRY KING, M. D., 
Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy. 
ALBION T. CROW, M. D., 
Professor of Obstetrics and diseases of women and children. 
JOHN H. BOARMAN, M. D., 
Professor of Materia Medica, Therapeutics, and Dean of the Faculty. AN ACT 
TO INCORPORATE THE TRUSTEES OP THE FRANKLIN MEDICAL AND' 
LITERARY COLLEGE. 
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: 
Section 1. John II. Boarman, John S. Watson, R. S. Blennerhassett, 
James A. Rogers, Philander Salisbury, James H. Johnson and David 
Tatum, their associates and successors, are hereby created a body corpo- 
rate and politic, under the name and style of the Medical 
and Literary. College," and. by that name shall remain in succession for 
fifty years, with full powers to acquire by purchase, devise, gift or be- 
quest, any property, real, personal and mixed; and to hold or convey the 
same under a common seal, which they may alter or change at pleasure, 
in any way consistent with the interest of said corporation. 
Sec. 2. Said Trustees in their corporate capacity, may sue and be 
sued, plead, and be impleaded in all the Courts of this State; and have 
power to make such By-Laws and regulations as they may deem ne- 
cessary for the good government of themselves, or the officers and stu- 
dents of the College. Provided, that such By-Laws shall in no way 
conflict with the Constitution or laws of this State, and of the United 
States. 
Sec. 3. A majority of the Trustees shall form a quorum to do busi- 
ness, and shall choose a President, Secretary, and other officers, Professors 
of the sciences and agents of the Institution; to displace or remove to 
the other departments, any, or all of them, for good and sufficient reasons; 
and shall, with the advice and consent of the President, prescribe the 
course of study to be pursued in such department of the College; and to 
confer on those students and others, who may be deemed worthy of hon- 
ors and degrees, such as are usually conferred in kindred Institutions of a 
literary character. Provided, the student of Medicine shall have devoted 
three years to the study of Medicine and Surgery, and other branches con- 4 
nected with the science of Physic, including two full courses of lectures 
upon the usual subjects taught in respectable Medical Colleges or Schools. 
Provided also, that such diplomas, certificate or evidence of the confer- 
ring such honor or degree shall designate the name of the Institution, 
and kind of degree or honor conferred, as to distinctly show that such 
diploma is, or was issued by the "Franklin Medical College" of St. Louis. 
Sec. 4. The Trustees, or a majority of them, shall have power, for 
good cause, to expel any member of the Faculty for improper conduct, 
and supply all the vacancies therein, by appointment, as well as to create 
additional Trustees, not to exceed in all thirteen. 
Sec. 5. The President of the College shall be ex-officio President of 
the Board of Trustees; and in his absence, one of the Trustees shall act 
pro. tern. 
Sec. 6. The Trustees shall choose a Secretary, who shall keep a re- 
cord of all the important transactions; and a Treasurer, who, if required, 
shall enter into a bond to the Trustees for the faithful performance of his 
duty; with such secm-ity as shall be approved by the Trustees. 
Sec. 7. The Trustees shall faithfully use the funds collected or do- 
nated, according to the best of their judgment, in erecting suitable 
buildings, purchasing books, maps, charts, philosophical and chemical 
apparatus, as may be deemed necessary and advantageous to the Insti- 
tution, and in supporting the professors and officers. 
Sec. 8. This Institution shall not bo authorized to establish a medi- 
cal College or School, in more than one county in the State. 
Sec. 9. If deemed advisable, the Trustees shall have power to es- 
tablish a Hospital in connection with the Medical College, which shall 
be under the control of the Medical Faculty of said College; and the 
Faculty may enact such by-laws and regulations as may be deemed ne- 
cessary for the well being of the same. Provided, that Medical students 
attending lectures, shall be permitted to visit the sick in their wards, 
and attend the clinical lectures of the Professors for a reasonable com- 
pensation ; and the Trustees are hereby authorized to receive and expend 
all moneys or property donated by the General Government, by the State, 
or by any society or individuals, in supporting the Hospital and its 
officers. 
Sec. 10. The Faculty of Medicine and Surgery in said College, shall 
annually present, if requested, free from charge or fee, their tickets to 
one person from each Congressional District in this State. Provided, 
such person be in indigent circumstances, and is the son of a worthy mem- 
ber of either the Order of Free Masons or Odd Fellows; and also, that 
the recipient is in good and reputable standing in society, and recom- 
mended by the senior Lodge of either Order, in said District. 
Approved, March 12,1849. MISSOURI, 
Office of Secretary of State. 
I, Falkland H. Martin, Secretary of State of the State of Missouri, 
certify the foregoing to be a correct copy of an act of the General As- 
sembly, entitled "An Act to Incorporate the Trustees of the Franklin 
Medical and Literary College," approved March 12, 1849, and that the 
original roll is now on file in this office. 
In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix 
the seal of said Office. Done at the City of Jefferson, this 
19th day of March, A. D. 1849. 
FALKLAND II. MARTIN, Secretary of State. 
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L. S. CIRCULAR. 
"The Franklin Medical and Literary College of Saint Loris, 
Missouri," incorporated under a wise and liberal charter, at the last 
session of the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, is now fully 
organized, and will enter on its first course of Medical Lectures, on the 
15th day of October next.. 
In filling the different Professorial Chairs of this Institution, it has 
been the aim of the Trustees, to secure as far as practicable, professional 
skill and ability of the highest order; and to draw that skill and 
ability from different portions of the Great Valley of the West, so as 
to secure, or at least deserve, a permanent claim to a patronage, as 
enduring as its Charter-to make it a general, not a sectional Institu- 
tion, to concentrate a portion of the talent and patronage of the Great- 
West, at this central point; and diffusing its benefits in equal pro- 
portions throughout the length and breadth of the same vast limit- 
seeking strength, in the whole, by a firm union of the now separated 
and divided portions-to secure that desideratum long wanted-a Wes- 
tern Medical and Lit er arg Institution-claiming equal rank with the 
best Institutions east of the Alleghanies, and diffusing its advantages at 
less expense. 
We invite the attention of Physicians in the West, to an examination 
of our Charter, and the Officers appointed under it: and we respectfully 
ask their aid in carrying out our intentions. No class of men better 
know, that imperfect and ill sustained (imperfect, because not sustained 
or patronized) educational enterprises, are the great barrier to intellec- 
tual improvement-none better know, that an institution, whose duty 
it is to prepare the graduate to go forth into the world, apt and fit to 
minister to the worst calamities of mankind-a preparation embracing 
a chain of knowledge and science, almost endless, but every link of 
which, carefully welded, must " ring true," and be kept ever bright- 
none know better than the practical Physician, that such an institution 
must be fully sustained-that its high office may be efficiently and 
worthily carried out. 7 
Hence we ask the patronage of the Medical gentlemen of the West; 
saying in brief, that our Institution is organised-fully and amply pre- 
pared to do justice to that patronage. 
To the respective Orders of "Free Masons " and "Odd Fellow," we 
have a few words to say. The advancement of mankind, in its moral 
and intellectual improvement-and the alleviation of those calamities 
which seem to be its destined heritage-is your object. Duly sensible 
of this great truth, and desirous to testify our gratitude for such mag- 
nanimous philanthrophy, in some small degree-our Charter has pro- 
vided that one student, of each Order, from each Congressional District 
in which such Order may have organization, shall be admitted to a full 
participation of all the benefits of the " Franklin Medical and Literary 
College " free of charge-and with equal standing with all other stu- 
dents. We ask the Orders to make their selections, according to the 
provisions of our Charter; and desire no better than to open our school 
with a full proportion of sons of true "Masons" and worthy "Odd 
Fellows." 
JOHN H. BOARMAN, M. D., 
Sec'y. of Board of Trustees. 8 
RECAPITULATION AND REMARKS. 
A College Clinic will be established on the 1st of October, on Wed- 
nesdays and Saturdays-from 3 to 5 P. M. From the location of the 
edifice and the means put in operation, there can be no doubt that this 
will become a highly valuable aid to the medical student, by qualifying 
him for the practical duties of his profession. 
Five or six lectures are given every day in the College, except on the 
mornings of Wednesday and Saturday, when they are suspended until 
two o'clock, to enable the class to prosecute their studies at the clinic 
and other practical institutions. 
The Professor of Anatomy will calf to his aid, pictures, diagrams, 
models, and preparations. He will not only instruct in general and spe- 
cial human, anatomy, but will pay particular attention to the surgical 
or topographical branch of the science, and to the physiology and 
pathology of the regions demonstrated.. 
The lectures on the Practice of Medicine will be illustrated by 
drawings, specimens of morbid structure, and every other available 
means, The application of ausculation and percussion in the diseases 
of the thorax and abdomen will be fidly explained. 
Obstetrics will be taught by the use of preparations, manikin, and 
drawings, in such a manner as to make the student familiar with the 
theory and practice of the art. 
The Professor of Chemistry is furnished with an ample apparatus, 
and will embrace in the course, all the principles of the science, and ex- 
plain the practical results, so as to make it most useful to the medical 
student. 
In Surgery, the major and minor operations wilt be performed on the 
subject in presence of the class. The principles and practice will be 
thoroughly taught, with all the means and appliances connected with 
surgical cases of injury or disease. 
The Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, will lecture 
on the nature, history, and uses of all articles employed Medicinally, 
illustrating his course by drawings, specimens, and dried preparations. 
He will also endeaver to explain the modus operand! of medicines and 
their therapeutic application. 
From the Chair of Institutes will be taught the most approved and 
modem views in the important branch of Physiology, together with Pa- 
thology and Medical Jurisprudence, which is a department of great and 
growing magnitude. 9 
PRACTICAL ANATOMY. 
The dissecting rooms, which are large, well lighted and ventilated,- 
and furnished with every convenience to lessen the labors of the student, 
will be under the control of the Professor of Anatomy, Dr. Murray, who 
will commence his course on the 1st of November. The members of 
the class may depend upon an abundant supply of material for dissec- 
tions. During the greater part of the Course, the weather is sufficiently 
cool for the study of Practical Anatomy. 
Although it is optional with the student to take or refuse the dissec- 
ting ticket, the faculty earnestly recommend the members of their class 
to avail themselves of every means of acquiring a thorough practical 
acquaintance with Anatomy. The course, which will be fully illustrated 
by preparations, models, and drawings, will enable the student to com- 
prehend the phenomena of life, and the principal forms of animal or- 
ganization in the successive graduations, and the changes produced in 
the various structures by morbific action. 
In conducting the lectures and demonstrations, eveiything is done 
with a view to the health, comfort, and interests of the class. At each 
lecture the Professor will recapitulate the subject of his previous lecture 
with questions, if desired. 
REGULATIONS FOR CONFERRING DEGREES, &c. 
Students are admitted into the College at any age after they have 
completed their preliminary education, but they will not be permitted 
to graduate until they have attained twenty-one years of age. 
The candidate for the Diploma of Doctor in Medicine, must have 
been engaged at least three years in the acquisition of medical knowledge, 
he must have been at least two years the pupil of a regular and reputa- 
ble physician, and have attended two full courses of lectures in a re- 
cognized College of Medicine, one of which must have been in this 
College. 
Those who have attended one full course in a legal institution, will be 
admitted AD eundem in this College, by presenting the Dean with the 
proper certificate and tickets. Such students are invited to attend a 
third course in the College, which they can do without extra charge. 
Before graduation, they are required to obtain a recommendatory letter 
from their preceptor. 
The candidate, at the time of his application, must deliver to the Dear- 
of the Medical Faculty a Thesis on some medical subject. 10 
When a candidate is rejected, his essay will be retained by the Medical 
Faculty. 
When a candidate withdraws his essay before examination, he will, 
upon reapplication, be placed at the foot of the list. 
Candidates will be examined in private, by each Professor, and the 
Faculty will meet at stated periods, to decide on the proficiency of each 
applicant. If the Faculty are of the opinion that a student would be 
materially improved by attending another course of lectures, the Dean 
will inform him, and he may withdraw his name from amongst the com- 
petitors, and will not be considered as rejected. In all cases where there 
is a difference of opinion in the Faculty, the student shall be notified 
that they desire him to submit to an examination before their body, and 
he may withdraw without being considered rejected. 
Public examinations will be conducted immediately after the conclu- 
sion of the regular private examinations. 
Degrees will be conferred at the Commencement in March. The suc- 
cessful candidates .are not permitted to be absent on these occasions 
without permission of the Faculty. FEES, EXPENSES, &c. 
Fee for the full Course, $105 00 
Matriculation and Library fee, 5 00 
Graduation fee, 20 00 
Dissecting Ticket, (optional,) 10 00 
The fee for the respective tickets may be paid to the Dean, who will 
issue a certificate, which will entitle the student to the ticket of each 
Professor. 
All other expenses are as low as in any other city of the Union; good 
accommodations can be procured from $2 00 to $3 00 per week. 
The Janitor will aid students in securing pleasant boarding houses, &c. 
All letters on the business of the College, to be addressed to 
JOHN H. BOARMAN, M. D., 
Dean of the Faculty, No. 32, Fourth st., Planters' House.