1850

Opening of Univ. Michigan Medical School which, however, had no hospital for 27 years, making due with Wed. & Sat. afternoon consultations conducted by surgeon Moses Gunn (Vaughan, 190-91, 95-97).  In 1877, wooden pavilion hospital opened” “When built it was understood that this hospital would become so badly infected within ten years that it would be necessary to burn it” (203).