Excerpt from Memorial to the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania American Medical and Surgical Journal, as long ago as the year 1826. He believes that his representations on the subject, coupled with the fact of his having taught the Institutes of Medicine for some years, in the course of summer instruction in the Medical Institute of Philadelphia, had a no small share of influence in inducing the Board of Trustees of the University to agree to the proposal of Dr. Chapman, that the latter should be allowed an assistant, whose duties were to consist in lecturing on this branch. A great step was thus made towards the creation of a separate chair of the Institutes of Medicine.* While supporting the just interests of your institution, the undersigned has not withheld his friendly criticism on what he believed to be wrong in its course. His frankness in this way may have been displeasing to the Medical Faculty, as conflicting with its notions of temporary expediency and pliant policy. Be this as it may, he cannot abandon, at once, his early habit of watchful regard for the prosperity of the University, nor with hold some remarks and suggestions to your honourable body, of a tenor similar to that in which he would have spoken to his colleagues of the Faculty, if he had been made one of its members. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.