The Early History of Medicine in Philadelphia.
forgotten by the mass of the brotherhood; and even here, in the city of his birth and labours, how few are there who are aware of the benefits he has conferred upon us! The school originated by him still flourishes, receiving, as he himself foretold, "a constant accession of strength, and annually exerting new vigour, and has given birth to numerous other useful institutions of a similar kind, spreading the light of medical knowledge through the whole American continent."[1]
His Discourse on the "Institution of Medical Schools in America" is, considering the state of medicine at the time it was written, a remarkable production, and should be republished and circulated as an act of justice to his memory. Although the science has advanced immeasurably since that day, his enlarged views of what is required of a medical practitioner by preliminary education, his high-toned sentiments
- ↑ The above was written in 1846. Since that time a portrait of Dr. Morgan has been placed in the museum of the University. It is a copy from a fine painting in my possession, after the original by Angelica Kauffman. Writing in 1827, the late Dr. Meigs eloquently and justly says: "He who in Greece or Rome would have had statues of brass and marble voted to his memory has in the one-third part of a century gone out of remembrance so completely that of the many of the hundreds who partake of the benefits of his school, very few have ever heard of his name."
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