1824- 1825

first course of lectures at Jefferson Medical College, founded after the surgeon George McClellan (graduate of Penn Medical, 1819) and associates in 1824 proposed to Jefferson College at Canonsburg a medical faculty connected with the college (da Costa, 326-333; Corner, 77-79; Aptowicz, 51-53). McClellan’s ambition had outgrown his flourishing private anatomy school. “There was, from the beginning, personal as well as institutional bad blood between the two schools. McClellan and Gibson had been adversaries . . . For many years Phila. physicians were divided by their respective loyalties to the two schools” (Corner, 78-79; Aptowicz, 59-60). Thomas Wakley founds the Lancet to expose evils of British medical education (Truax, 26).