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Excerpt from A Biographical Sketch Read Pursuant to Appointment Before the Philadelphia Medical Society, at a Stated Meeting, Saturday, 16th February, 1816: Of Their Late President Professor Barton
In the year 1765, the original plan of the college of Philadel phia, was greatly enlarged, by the addition of the medical school; with the appointment of professors for reading lectures in anato my, botany, chemistry, the materia medica, the theory and prae tice of physick, and also for delivering clinical lectures in the Penn sylvania hospital. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
