On the discovery of leucocythemia, (being a reply to a letter on that subject by Professor Kölliker, in the Monthly journal of medical science for October 1854) / by John Hughes Bennett, M.D.

  • Bennett, John Hughes, 1812-1875.
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[1854]
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Credit: On the discovery of leucocythemia, (being a reply to a letter on that subject by Professor Kölliker, in the Monthly journal of medical science for October 1854) / by John Hughes Bennett, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Graduates ! We have hitherto been placed in the hallowed rela- tion of preceptor and pupil. Henceforth, we are co-equals, fellow members of the same great brotherhood. You go abroad as the re- presentatives of by far the largest medical class, and are yourselves much the largest class of graduates, that has ever issued from the halls of Jeiferson Medical College, or of any similar institution in this country. In the valedictory address to the graduates, delivered last year by my colleague. Professor Bache, after speaking of the opportunities for medical instruction presented by large cities, he remarks:— These local advantages, and the exertions of my colleagues, have gained for our school a steadily increasing favor; and we have seen, in the session just closed [for 1852-53], the largest class that has yet assembled within our walls—the largest, indeed, that up to this time has honored any medical school in the United States with its attendance. The catalogue of that session numbers 556; that of the present, 627; being, probably, the largest class in attendance together on the same courses of lectures in any medical school in the world. Seven years ago, on an occasion similar to the present, I ventured to affirm, that the multiplication of medical schools throughout the country, instead of diminishing the number of those that seek in- struction in this city, would augment it; for the facility of inter- course between the most distant places is so great, that a journey to Philadelphia is now within the means of a large proportion of medi- cal students; hence it is, that so many visit her to pass at least one winter, in order that they may enjoy those ample opportunities for full medical instruction, which have obtained for her the character of being the great centre of medical education on this side of the Atlantic. Such has eminently been the fact since then; and, of those whom I have now the honor to address as graduates of the session of 1853-54, nearly one-half have spent at least one scholastic year in other institutions. Prom the most distant regions you have assembled to acquire in-