A Discourse Upon the Institution of Medical Schools in America: Delivered at a Public Anniversary Commencement, Held in the College of Philadelphia May 30 and 31, 1765. With a Preface Containing, Amongst Other Things, the Author's Apology for Attempting to Introduce the Regular Mode of Practising Physic in Philadelphia: by John Morgan M.D. Fellow of the Royal Society at London; Correspondent of the Royal Academy of Surgery at Paris; Member of the Arcadian Belles Lettres Society at Rome; Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in London and Edinburgh; and Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in the College of Philadelphia |
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