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hree years after Yale College and he has discovered several new plant Tjoined with the Connecticut species, including species of milkweed Medical Society to establish the and balsamweed, His garden and Medical Institution of Yale College by conservatory at the Medical Institution an Act of the Legislature, thirty-seven are filled with plants that he uses to Students are soon arriving in New-Haven prepare his efficacious Medicines. from all corners of New England to Dr, JONATHAN KNIGHT, who commence studies in Medicine, Anatomy, graduated from Yale College five years Chemistry, and Materia Medica at the ago, studied Medicine in Philadelphia, new school. Seventeen members of the and his practice in Medicine and class come from Connecticut; the rest Surgery is familiar to many in the come from Vermont, New Hampshire, town. Dr. Knight will instruct the new and Massachusetts. Students in Anatomy. The Students, whose names, towns, The cost to the Students for the full and places of residence in New-Haven course of Lectures, described further in are listed here, met the requirement the Advertisement placed on this page for admission, to “produce satisfactory by Dr. Dwight, will be fifty dollars. evidence of a blameless life and The course will last six months, with conversation.” no vacation, and will be given to all The new Medical Institution has thirty-seven Students. During this a most illustrious and accomplished time, the Medical Professors will faculty, assembled by Dr. TIMOTHY perform Surgical Operations, gratis, DWIGHT, the President of Yale College. upon such patients as will consent to Dr. NATHAN SMITH, late of Hanover, be operated upon in presence of the New Hampshire, where he founded the Students of Medicine.
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