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Show OUR FIRST MEDICAL SCHOOLS Up to the Nineteenth Century There Were Only Five Such Institutions. In-stitutions. The first medical college in the western west-ern part of the United States was Rush Medical college, founded in Chicago Chi-cago in 1S37 by Dr. Daniel Brainard, who was born in Whitesborough, N. Y., 104 years ago, May 15, 1812. Rush college commemorates the name of Dr. Benjamin Rush, who was born near Philadelphia of Quaker parentage, parent-age, in 1745. Doctor Rush served as an apprentice to a Philadelphia physician physi-cian for six years, and then completed his medical educati.m in Edinburgh, London and Paris. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, one of the founders of the first American Amer-ican antislavery society and the greatest great-est physician of his day. During the yellow-fever scourge in Philadelphia in 1793 he visited more than 100 patients pa-tients daily. Up to the nin&tenth century cen-tury there were only five medical colleges col-leges in the United Srsles, all in the East. In 1819 a medical school was started in Cincinnati, and in 1825 the first institution of this kind in the South was founded in South Carolina, the University of Georgia soon following follow-ing suit. The first medical college west of the Mississippi was established in St. Louis in 1842. . |