The History of the Medical Department of Transylvania UniversityPeter, Robert
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The History of the Medical Department of Transylvania University
Peter, Robert
Medicine -- Kentucky; Medicine -- Kentucky -- History; Transylvania University. Medical Department
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Year. | Pupils. | Graduates.
1817-18 | 20 | 1
1819-20 | 37 | 7
1820-21 | 93 | 14
1821-22 | 138 | 37
1822-23 | 171 | 51
1823-24 | 200 | 46
1824-25 | 234 | 56
1825-26 | 281 | 65
1826-27 | 190 | 53
1827-28 | 152 | 53
1828-29 | 206 | 40
1829-30 | 199 | 72
1830-31 | 210 | 54
1831-32 | 215 | 74
1832-33 | 222 | 69
1833-34 | 262 | 66
1834-35 | 259 | 83
1835-36 | 262 | 75
1836-37 | 242 | 78
1837-38 | 227 | 84
1838-39 | 211 | 51
1839-40 | 257 | 62
1840-41 | 254 | 64
1841-42 | 271 | 57
1842-43 | 204 | 60
1843-44 | 214 | 59
1844-45 | 156 | 38
1845-46 | 171 | 64
1846-47 | 205 | 68
1847-48 | 169 | 53
1848-49 | 120 | 49
1849-50 | 92 | 35
1850-[E]51 | 50 | 21
[F]1851-52 | 50 | 23
[F]1853 | 51 | 19
[F]1854 | 53 | 31
[G]1855 | 38 | 29
[H]1855-56 | 38 | 11
[H]1856-57 | 32 | 9
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Totals | 6,456 | 1,881
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[Footnote E: Doctor Dudley resigned at the end of this session.]
[Footnote F: Spring and summer session.]
[Footnote G: Summer and winter session.]
[Footnote H: Winter session.]
Thus the records show that in thirty-nine years of the existence of
the Medical Department of Transylvania University it taught six
thousand four hundred and fifty-six pupils and conferred the degree of
Doctor of Medicine on one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one of
that number. The late Professor Thomas D. Mitchell, in speaking of its
record, made the following remark: "That for its vigorous prosperity
and the rapid increase of its classes, the medical school of
Transylvania is without a parallel. Certainly in the United States
there is nothing comparable to it. This is the highest eulogy the
institution can receive. The most eloquent and forcible language in
praise of it would be spiritless and feeble contrasted with the power
of the foregoing figures."
SCHEDULE OF THE SEVERAL ENDOWMENTS OF TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY.
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