NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE
             Washington
Founded 1836
U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
             Public Health Service 
 
 

ORDINANCES
OF THE
> COLLEGE OF
PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS^
OF THE
WESTERN DISTRICT,
OF THE
STATE OF NEW-YORK.
 
 
THIS COLLEGE WAS INCORPORATED,
            12th june, 1812,
AND LOCATED IN THE TOWN OF FAIRFIELD, HERKIMF.P
       COUNTY, AND STATE OF NEW-YORK.
             THE VRUSfEES ARE
       WESTEL WILLOUGHBY, JUN.
       JONATHAN SHERWOOD,
       LUTHER GUtTEAU,
       SOLOMON WOLCOTT,
       ISAAC SEARS,
       ABIJAH TOMBLING,
       *AMOS HALE,
       SIMEON FORD,
       CLARK SMITH,
       JOSEPH WHITE,
       ALEXANDER G. FONDA,
       OLIVER C. COMSTOCK,
       JOHN MILLER,
       ISAAC SARGEANT,
       REUBEN HART,
       AMASA TROWBRIDGE,
       FRANCIS A. BLOODGOOD,
       WILLIAM D. FORD,
       JAMES KENNEDY,
       OLIVER ELLIS,
       ANDREW A. BARTOW,
       WILLIAM SMITH,
       JOHN STE\RNS,
       JAMES HALE, and
       LY.viAN SPALDING."

  The annual meeting of the Trustees is on the
first Tuesday of December; and the quarterly
meeting, on the first Tuesday of March^June and
September. 
             OFFICERS
 O? THE COLLEGE  OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, OJP
 THE WESTERN DISTRICT, APPOINTED BY  THE  HON-
 OURABLE THE  REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY  OF THE
 STATE OF NEW-YORK, APRIL, 1813.

 LYMAN SPALDING, M. D. President.

 WESTEL WILLOUGHBY, Jun. M.D. Vice-
   President.

 LYMAN SPALDING, M. D. S. Jtf. Lond. Soc.
   Cor. Professor of Anatomy and Surgery, and
   Lecturer on the Institutes of Medicine.

 WESTEL WILLOUGHBY, Jun.M. D. Pro-
   fessor of Obstetrics.

 JAMES HADLEY, A. M. Professor of Chem-
   istry, Materia  Medica, and Mineralogy.

WILLIAM D. FORD, Esq. Treasurer.

 PR. JONATHAN SHERWOOD, Register. 
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               An Abstract
From the Ordinances of the College of Physicians
     and Surgeons of the Western District.

   THE session of the College  shall  commence,
annually, on the first Tuesday of November, and
continue three months.

   No person shall be admitted to an examination,
for the Degree  of Doctor of Medicine, until he
shall  have  produced  satisfactory  testimony to
the President, Vice-President, and Professors, that
he has regularly  studied  Physic  and  Surgery,
with one or more  reputable  practitioner or prac-
titioners, for the term  of three years; and that
he has attended all the medical professors, for two
complete sessions of this College ; or one session
in this  College, and  one other session in  some
other College or University.
   Every person, who shall not have received a Col-
legiate education, shall previously to his examina-
tion give satisfactory evidence to the  President,
Vice-President, and Professors, that he has an ac-
quaintance with the Latin Language, that he pos-
ses a correct  knowledge of English  Grammar,
Natural and Experimental  Philosophy ; and that
he sustains a fair moral character.
   The public examinations shall be held, annually,
 on the Monday next following the  close of the ses-
 sion, before the President,  Vice-President, Pro-
 fessors, and Trustees, with any  members of th* 
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  medical faculty, and such other literary gentlemen
  as may choose to attend.
    Each candidate shall be examined on Anatomy,
  Surgery, Obstetrics, Chemistry, Materia Medica,
  Mineralogy, and the Institutes of Medicine ;  and
  he shall at the  same time read and defend a Thesis
  on some medical subject.  Every candidate shall
  have a right to select the subject of his Thesis, but
 the Thesis itself must have been examined and
 approbated by the Professors, before it  is read.
 Every candidate must deliver a copy of his The-
 sis to the Register for the use of the Trustees, to
 be by them presented to the Regents of the Uni-
 versity of the State of New-York.
   If any non-resident Professor cannot be present
 at the public  examination, he may examine the
 candidates at the close of his particular course, on
 the branch he teaches.

   Each candidate shall enrol his  name with  the
 Register, and deposit with him the requisite evi-
 dence of a due conformity to  the College ordinan-
 ces, at least ten days previously to the public ex-
 amination ; and the Register shall deliver the same
 to the  President, Vice-President, or Senior Pro-
 fessor.

  If the examination and Thesis be satisfactory
to the  President,  Vice-President, Professors  and
 Trustees, the candidate will be recommended,  by
the Trustees, to the Regents of the University of
the State of New. York, for die Degree of Doctor
of Medicine. 
(7)
  The  fee, for attending the lectures of all the
Professors in  one session  of the College,  shall
be fifty dollars, that is,  twelve dollars and  fifty
cents to each  Professor; but  if any  gentleman
should  not choose to attend all the Professors, he
shall  then pay  fifteen dollars to each Professor,
whose course he may attend.

  Every gentleman, who pays the full fee to either
of the Professors, for his lectures, for two sessions
in this College, shall be entitled to attend these lec-
tures in future without any fee.

  Every candidate,  for the  Degree of Doctor of
Medicine, shall pay the sum of twenty dollars as
the fee thereof.

  The College of Physicians and Surgeons of the
Western District has grown out of the  Medical
School, established  by the Trustees  of Fairfield
Academy, in  1809.   The  reputation,  which this
School acquired for the short time it was attached
to the Academy is well known.  It was even such,
in the second year of its existence, as to induce the
Honourable the Legislature of the State to endow
it with 5,000 dollars; and when  it received  the
proud rank of a College, they generously added to
its funds the further sum of 10,000 dollars.

   The Trustees of the College have purchased, of
the Academy, a stone  edifice  63 feet  by 38 and
three stories  high, in which they are now fitting
up, in the highest style  of convenience,  a  large
and commodious Anatomical  Theatre,  with  a 
                      (  8)
 Museum, Dissecting Rooms, &c. &c.  The Mu-
 seum is  amply  sufficient  for demonstrating the
 healthy structure of every part of the body, and
 even many of its parts in a morbid state.  Speci-
 mens of  Morbid Anatomy will be thankfully re-
 ceived for the Museum.
   The Laboratory  is undergoing  a thorough re-
 pair, and  will be fitted up in  a style of great con-
 venience.   To the old furniture has been added an
 extensive collection  of new  Chemical  Ware.
 Mineralogical specimens  will be  thankfully re-
 ceived for the Cabinet, and if gentlemen desire an
 Analysis, they can be gratified.

   The Professor of Obstetrics has been furnished
 with a good machine, &c.
   During the session of the College,  advice will
 be given and operations performed, gratuitously, in
 all Surgical cases  at Fairfield  or  its immediate
 vicinity, provided the class can be present.
   With all  these advantages, the Trustees and
 Professors humbly  hope to  continue to deserve
 well of medical students and of the public, which
 is the  height of their ambition, and for which no
 exertions  shall be wanting.

            c^cxuvlWu  ©Wwco^  ^MVli>W.
   Fairfield, May, 1813.

  |CT For  further information, a  reference  may be had to
the President, in the City  of New-York, the Register at
Fairfield, or either of the Trustees. 
 
 
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