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                                                                   BOSTON, JUJVE-l, 1811.
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      IN conformity with the opinion of the publick, and especially of the fellows of the Massachusetts
     Medical Society, a medical school is now established in the town of  Boston, and has commenced
     its operations.   The general approbation of this new arrangement has surpassed the hopes of its most
     sanguine advocates,  the number of students attending the lectures having  been about double that
     of  any former period ; while the  interest displayed in the  prosecution of their  studies, and the
     satisfaction expressed, on a review of them, at their opportunities and acquisitions, have been highly
     flattering and animating to the professors.
        The courses will be continued the ensuing winter on the following plan  :
          Anatomy  and Physiology p
         Surgery  and Midwiferyj
          Chemistry  and  Materia Medica     ...».•      $15
          Theory and  Practice of Medicine   ......      $15
          Clinical Medicine       ........      815
        The lectures will commence on the first Weuii-js-iay  in November, and  terminate  on the first
     Wednesday in February.
        The students,  who attend the professor of Clinical Medicine, will have  an opportunity of seeing
     diseases and medical treatment in  the hospital department of the Alms House.
        Those who attend the lectures on Anatomy, may see the surgical practice of the same place, and
     such private operations, as circumstances will  admit.
        The valuable library, founded by Ward Nicholas  Boylston, Esq. will be open  to the stu-
     dents.   This library contains about seven hundred volumes, selected with great  care, relating to all
     the branches of medical science.
        Other arrangements for the advantage of students, which cannot  with propriety be published, will
     be made before the opening of the lectures.
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        The fee for attendance  on the anatomical lectures  has been reduced, in order that it might not
     exceed that established in other places.   The professors avail themselves of this opportunity to re-
     mark, that in their arrangements for the medical school,  they have never been  guided by the hope
     of pecuniary compensation.  On the contrary, they do not expect to receive any reward  of this na-
     ture, which will compensate for the sacrifice of private practice to  their official duties.   In the ana-
     tomical branch,  which, as is usual, is more fully attended  than the  others, the expenditures have ac- 
tually exceeded the receipts, even independently of the cost of a valuable collection of preparations,
.md without estimating the labour of the professors.   They are not discouraged  under this state of
things.   They feel that circumstances have placed them, however unmeritedly, in a situation  im-
portant to  the interests of medical science in this part of the country ; and they are  determined to
fulfil the duties of it to the utmost of their ability, so  long as they receive the approbation of the re-
spectable portion of the medical community of this state : for the support of the faculty, and the ex-
ertions  of  the professors are  equally necessary to the existence and success of an ample and effi-
cient school of medicine in this section of the United States.

                                                                 JOHN WARREN,
                                                                AARON DEXTER,
                                                                JAMES  JACKSON,
                                                                 JOHN C. WARREN,
                                                                JOHN GORHAM.

    The government of the University have determined that in future the degree of Doctor in Med-
icine shall  be conferred on the same conditions that the degree of Bachelor in  Medicine has  hitherto
been given.  Candidates are required  to have studied two years with some respectable practitioner;
to have attended two of each of the courses of medical lectures ; and then, at the end of the third
year, they  may present themselves for examination.   The examination will be held in Boston, four-
teen days subsequent to the  termination of the winter  courses.
    Bachelors in Medicine of this University will be entitled to  the degree of Doctor in Medicine 
 
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