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Excerpt from The Faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University in the City of New York: Twenty-Four Portraits
Publication of the Portraits Of the faculty Of the College Of Physicians and Surgeons has occurred on at least two occasions. In I 846 while the College was still in Crosby Street a Broadside was Published in litho' graph which Presented the seven chiefs Of the existing faculty. Willard Parker, John B. Beck, Alexander Stevens, Jos. M. Smith, John Torrey, Robert Watts and Chandler R. Gilman appeared on that sheet. A similar group dated about I 87 5 hangs on the wall Of the Faculty room Among the notable men who appear there are T. Gaillard Thomas, Thomas M. Markoe, Alonzo Clark and John C. Dalton.
The faculty Of I 8 so shown in this earlier group, introduced into Medf ical Education in New York the methods Of clinical lectures and Of ward walks at the bedside Of the Patients, which have made the French school famous and Paris the Mecca Of the young medical generation seeking for the highest development Of medical truth.
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