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

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. Morgan, John, 1735-1789., Powel, Samuel, 1739-1793, dedicatee., College, Academy, and Charitable Schools of Philadelphia. Philadelphia:: Printed and sold by William Bradford, at the corner of Market and Front-Streets,, MDCC,LXV. [1765]

From Catalog II

John Morgan's founding document of American medical education, delivered at the establishment of the College of Philadelphia's medical faculty in 1765 -- the institution Rush would join four years later after returning from Edinburgh. Morgan, like Rush, had studied at Edinburgh; like Rush, he was shaped by Franklin's circle and by the conviction that American medicine required systematic university-based training. Morgan's vision was Rush's inheritance, complicated by a bitter personal controversy over Morgan's conduct as Director-General of the Continental Army's medical department, which Rush eventually addressed in his Short Account of Dr. Morgan (BR-2023.038, this collection).