KEMPER COLLEGE. 
TRUSTEES. 
Rt.Rev. JACKSON KEMPER, D.D., Pres’t of the Board. 
Rev. S. A. CRANE, President of the College. 
EDWARD TRACY, 
JOSIAH SPALDING, 
AUGUSTUS KERR, 
HERMAN L. HOFFMAN, 
HENRY YON PHUL, 
JOSEPH C. LAVEILLE, 
WILSON P. HUNT, 
ROBERT WASH, 
J. PARKER DOANE, 
DANIEL HOUGH, 
CHARLES JABINE, 
REY. PETER R. MINARD, 
HENRY S. COX, 
JAMES L. ENGLISH, 
N. P. TAYLOR. 
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
The Trustees, in announcing the Medical Department 
of our Institution, would respectfully inform the public, 
that they have been actuated by no other motive than 
the interests of our city and the community at large. 
In chartering the College, the Legislature endoAved it 
with University powers—giving the Trustees the privi- 
lege of granting degrees in all the departments of learn- 
ing ; and, conceiving this a favorable period for establish- 
ing a Medical Department in the city of St. Louis, they 
have embarked with the hope that they will receive such 
patronage as the Faculty they have appointed deserve. 
All the Faculty are favorably known to the Profession, 
and several of its members are distinguished as teachers 
in their departments. They have endeavored to combine 
energy of character with industry and intellect; and, as 
far as possible, learning with the facility of utterance— 
clearness of. demonstration with eloquence. How far they 
have been duccessfulr the^pijedical. public must judge. 2 
FACULTY. 
JOSEPH N. McDOWELL, M. D., (late Professor of Special 
and Surgical Anatomy in the Cincinnati College,) 
Professor of Anatomy and Surgery; 
J. W. HALL, M. D., (late of Kentucky,) 
Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine ; 
HIRAM A. PROUT, M. D, (late Professor of Chemistry and 
Botany in Lagrange College, Ala.) 
Professor of Materia Medica and Medical Botany; 
JOHN S. MOORE, M. D., (lateof Tennessee,) 
Professor of the Institutes of Medicine and Obstetrics; 
JOHN DE WOLF, M. D., (late Prof, of Berkshire Med. School,) 
Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy. 
By order of the Board, 
GEO. A. UNDERHILL, Secretary. 
In building up and sustaining a School of Medicine in 
the city of St. Louis, the Medical Faculty are aware that, 
like all other newly founded institutions of the kind, it 
must struggle into existence, and time is requisite, in the 
estimation of the Profession, to make it permanent. This, 
however, should not be the case, with a school founded 
in a position so advantageous, and embracing so many 
facilities for the successful cultivation of the profession. 
St. Louis, from its geographical relations to the most popu- 
lous portions of the Great Valley, is near the centre of 
the mass of the people west of the mountains. The valleys 
of the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, and the whole 
South, are more easy of access to this city, than to any 
other point in which there is a Medical School. The vast 
territory of the West and North, which is now rapidly 
and densely populating, is nearer, and will pay tribute to 
us. And, although we may not be among those who will 
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reap the advantages of the labors of the profession at this 
point, still we believe the destiny of St. Louis in medicine 
is not to be equalled by any position in Western America. 
The student who wishes to study the diseases of the 
South, West, and North, will find patients here from every 
latitude, and the maladies peculiar to every position to be 
found on our immense length of river—except the Yellow 
Fever of the South. If he wishes to study Practical An- 
atomy or Surgery, here he can find material ample for his 
supply. One of the great Marine Hospitals, located by 
the Government, is soon to be constructed here, and there 
is now in successful operation a hospital, into which the 
Faculty hope to introduce their pupils. 
The present facilities of the School, although they may 
be considered justly—in point of apparatus—inferior to 
some of the older institutions of the country, are ample, 
so far as practical knowledge is required to be given. The 
Professor of Anatomy and Surgery has, for the illustra- 
tion of his lectures, a Museum which, for the purposes of 
teaching, is as valuable as any west of the mountains ; 
and the supply of subjects for practical purposes of the 
school, is as good as can be found elsewhere. . 
The Professor of Chemistry is supplied with an appara- 
tus such as has been used by him in other institutions, and 
is authorized to increase his stock to an extent that will 
make his lectures as available and as valuable in that 
department, as can be found in the Union. 
The buildings which are required for the delivery of a 
course of lectures, will be in readiness when the course 
commences. 
An Amphitheatre is now under contract, and will be 
finished by the first of October, which will cantain four 
hundred pupils, and at a convenient distance from the 
boarding houses of the city. Until the Hall is built, rooms 
will be obtained which will accommodate our pupils, and 
make them as comfortable as those in attendance upon 4 
other schools. We cannot boast of splendid edifices, as 
yet, nor would we, if we had them. It is not the bricks 
nor the mortar which make the school of medicine—our 
reliance is on a better and more valuable material. 
Board can be obtained in the city of St. Louis as cheap 
as in any city in the West where there is a Medical 
School. A cheaper market cannot be found in any city 
on the continent; and there is no good reason why board- 
ing should not be lower here than elsewhere. Good 
board can be obtained for from $3 50 to $5 per week. 
The Ticket of each Professor will be $15—except that 
of the Professor of Anatomy and Surgery, who will lec- 
ture nine times a week, and whose ticket will be $2O. 
The Dissecting ticket will be $lO, which will be taken 
at the discretion of the pupil. 
The Graduation fee will be $2O; and required to be 
paid to the Dean before the examination. 
Students, before applying for the degree of M. D., are 
required to attend two full courses in this institution, or 
one in some respectable school, and the last in this—and 
to be of good moral character. 
If a practitioner of medicine apply, he shall give evi- 
dence of his having been in a reputable practice for three 
years, and have attended one course in this institution. 
The regular lectures will commence on the first Monday 
in November next—and terminate on the Ist of March. 
Five or six lectures will be delivered each day, Sabbath 
excepted. 
The room for Practical Anatomy will be open during 
the month of October, and lectures free of expense will 
be delivered to the pupils in attendance. 
order of the Faculty, 
J. N. McDOWELL, M. D., Dean. 
fir A Summer School is now in successful operation, and a part of the 
Faculty are delivering gratuitous Lectures to those in attendance. 
St.cJLouis, 1840. [Bulletin print.}