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History of Tulane University School of Medicine  The Medical College of Louisiana, now Tulane University School of Medicine, was founded in 1834 by three young physicians: ... Hutchinson Clinics and the building was renamed the Josephine Hutchinson Memorial Building. ... A magnificent bust of Aesculapius by noted New Orleans sculptress Angela Gregory greeted...
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History and Traditions | Tulane University  New Orleans in 1834 was one of the busiest international port cities in the world. ... By 1847, the Medical College of Louisiana was a newly established public ... But in 1884, wealthy merchant Paul Tulane, a native of Princeton, N.J., wanted to ... More than 180 years later, Tulane University has become one of the most...
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Tulane University - History of the Pathology Department  On September 29, 1834, the New Orleans Bee announced on its front page the establishment in ... In February 1847 the medical college became, by legislative act, the ... A wealthy New Orleans merchant, Paul Tulane, bequeathed $1,250,000 to .... of Pathology and was later promoted to Assistant Professor of Pathology.
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Tulane University - Wikipedia  Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian research university in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Originally founded as a public medical college in 1834, the school grew into .... Coincidentally, in late November 2008 the City of New Orleans announced plans to add bicycle lanes to the St. Charles Avenue corridor...
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Tulane University School of Medicine - Wikipedia  When Hunt later reached New Orleans, he also joined the staff of Charity Hospital, all the while cherishing his dream of a medical college in the ... 1 A Prospectus was published in The Bee (September 1834),...
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Mayo Clinic - Wikipedia  Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit medical practice and medical research group based in Rochester, Minnesota. ... On September 30, 1889, Saint Marys Hospital was opened by the Sisters. .... In 1972, Mayo Clinic opened the doors of its own medical school (Mayo Medical School) in Rochester, which is known for its contributions in...
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J! Archive - Show #3537, aired 2000-01-11  Ben Franklin helped found this Ivy League school that had the USA's first medical ... Cowboy nickname of William Donovan, founder of the OSS & of modern U.S....
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Baylor University || About Baylor || The Naming of Baylor  Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor, or R. E. B. Baylor, was born in Lincoln ... In 1819, R.E.B. Baylor was elected to the Kentucky State Legislature. His ... One of the defining moments of R.E.B. Baylor's life came in 1839 with his conversion to Christianity. ... Baylor was also instrumental in founding Baylor University, named for him...
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List of Colleges and Universities Named After People - Institutions ...  The school received $9 million from his estate upon his death in 1965. ... University, renamed in 1884 in honor of DePauw's substantial donations, which totaled .... was renamed in 1992 after the Rowans gave $100 million to the school, at the ... in the late 19th century with financing from the endowments of Paul Tulane and...
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Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania - Wikipedia  The doctors invited were: Edwin Fussell (Bartholomew's nephew) M.D., Franklin Taylor, M.D., Ellwood Harvey, M.D., Sylvester Birdsall, M.D., and Dr. Ezra Michener. ... but had little to do with it after it started in 1850 in Philadelphia. ... meeting, but would not start teaching at the college until 1852),...
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How Elizabeth Blackwell became the first female doctor in the U.S. ...  Jan 23, 2014 ... Geneva Medical College in Geneva, N.Y., was the first college to ... In April of 1849, Dr. Blackwell crossed the Atlantic to study in the medical meccas of Paris and London. In June, she began her post-graduate work at the famed Parisian ... remembered as the first American woman to receive an M.D. degree...
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Matthew Vassar - Wikipedia  Matthew Vassar (April 29, 1792  June 23, 1868) was an English-born American brewer, merchant and philanthropist. He founded the eponymous Vassar College in 1861. He was a cousin of John Ellison Vassar. The city of Vassar, Michigan is named after him. ... In 1814 Vassar opened M. Vassar & Company and rebuilt the brewery on...
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Article Page  ScienceDirect  Oct 2, 2011 ... Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Rochester, Minn ... Alexander Borodin (1833-1887), and the Indian musician and conductor Zubin Mehta (1936-). ... he left medicine to attend the Paris Conservatoire to study under the famous ... In 1951, Mehta entered St Xavier's College of Bombay to study medicine.
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Religions Flashcards | Quizlet  In 1773 Clement XIV suppressed this order founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola ... The Voodoo of New Orleans owes a debt to this Caribbean nation once known...
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history of medicine days - University of Calgary  Mar 22, 2002 ... that The Art of Medicine consists in entertaining the patient while .... your heart suffers you have Tronchin for doctor and friend while .... Its invention is typical of the way that scientific advancement so ...... century when a French physician by the name of Rene Laennec first invented the stethoscope in 1816.
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Walter Reed - The Robinson Library  Oct 1, 2015 ... He earned a second medical degree from Bellevue Hospital ... in 1893, and became a professor of clinical and sanitary microscopy at ... Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., was named in his honor in 1909.
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Johns Hopkins University - Wikipedia  The Johns Hopkins University is an American private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, the university was named for its first benefactor, the .... With the completion of Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1889 and the medical school .... The nursing school opened in 1889 and accepted women and men as...
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Maine Central Institute: History  When the school first opened on August 30, 1866, accommodations for the 32 ... Founders Hall, Joseph R. Cianchette Hall, Ruth Cook Music Building, as well as two ... when the cornerstone of the Institute Building, later named Founders Hall, was laid. ... the chapel was christened Powers Hall to honor the key benefactor.
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A university is born | About McGill - McGill University  Founder James McGill (1744-1813) steadies his hat and stands watch over the ... to create a college in McGill's name, and the school must be established within ten ... On June 24, 1829, Burnside Place was formally opened as McGill College. ... a deal to have the Montreal Medical Institution act as its faculty of medicine.
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Brand of brothers - Modern Healthcare Modern Healthcare business ...  Mar 23, 2009 ... They launched one of the early medical fellowship programs at a time when a few ... medical school themselves, the brothers returned to Rochester, Minn., to practice. ... Their surgical section of the hospital became known as the Mayo Clinic in 1903 and spun out as a full-service medical center in 1915.
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Ask me a trivia question - Topix  Topix  Jun 23, 2009 ... 2 ~ In 1804, this merchant got Rhode Island College to rename itself after him by donating $5000. Subtle Signs of Glen Rock, PA on Jun 23,...