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Excerpt from An Address Delivered at the Commencement of the Lectures in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New-York The great advantages arifing to {b ciety, from well regulated public femi naries of learning, have always been apparent to the venerable fages and il luftrious legiflators of ancient and mo dern times. Schools for education are nearly coeval with the dawnings of fci ence. Our European ancef'tors, fome time after the firfl: emigrations to this American continent, founded literary infiitutions. Their defcendants, with laudable zeal, have continued to promote them in proportion to the aggrandizement and population of the Country; but the efiablilhment Of a college in the new world, for the fole pur pofe' of promoting medical education, was firfi directed by a law of this Rate, upon an application of the Regents of the Unix verfity 'to the legiflature, for that pnrpofe. 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.
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Nicholas Romayne was the eldest son of John Romeyn, a New York silversmith, and his wife Juliana McCarty. His brother Jeremiah and several of his close relatives were Dutch Reformed clergymen (W. B. Sprague, Annals of the American Pulpit, vol. IX, 1869).
Nicholas, who altered the spelling of his name, received his early education at the Hackensack Academy under Peter Wilson and entered the medical school of King's College, New York, in 1774. He secured the M. D. degree at Edinburgh in 1780, writing a thesis on the formation of pus, De Generatione Puris (Edinburgh, 1780), and continued his education for a time on the Continent.
Returning to America, he settled first in Philadelphia, then after the evacuation, in New York. He was one of the original board of regents of the University of the State of New York from 1784 to 1787, and when the trustees of Columbia College were independently chartered in 1787, he was made an original member of this board, resigning in 1793. In 1785 he was elected professor of the practice of physic in the revived Medical School of Columbia College, holding the title until 1787, and in 1791-92 he was lecturer in chemistry, anatomy, and the practice of physic; but this faculty having performed but small service, Romayne was mainly occupied from 1787 in the instruction of private classes. Being a man of learning and wide culture, he attracted many students, and in time he had a medical school of his own. In 1791 he addressed the regents of the University, asking their protection and direction for the school, and shortly afterward he and six associates, young physicians, addressed a second memorial describing their proposed plans for instruction. The regents were favorably disposed, and granted a charter to Sir James Jay, Romayne, and others as the College of Physicians and Surgeons. The Columbia trustees made immediate objection, representing that they were engaged in establishing a medical department according to their charter, and the Romayne proposal was suspended. Romayne then approached the trustees of Queen's (now Rutgers) College at New Brunswick, New Jersey, for a degree-conferring arrangement, and was able to secure degrees from that institution for some of his students in 1792 and 1793. The Queen's affair, however, placed him under the ban of his profession in New York, and he went to Europe for further study and observation. Here he was made a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in London and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh. Romayne's next appearance was as a speculator in Western lands, implicated in the Blount conspiracy of 1797. The scheme having failed, Romayne, conceiving that his countrymen looked upon him with suspicion, left the country (C. R. King, post, III, p. 258). In 1806, "by a sudden and singular change of sentiment, " he was called from his retirement and honored by election as first president of the medical society of the city and county of New York (Hosack, post, p. 92). In 1807 the College of Physicians and Surgeons, dormant since 1791, was revived and Romayne was made president and trustee, and in 1808 professor of the institutes of medicine; during 1807-08, in the absence of a professor, he gave lectures in anatomy. He made the Address Delivered at the Commencement of the Lectures in the school, published in New York in 1808. It was not long, however, before difficulties arose. In 1811 he and several of the professors resigned, and Romayne was back at Queen's College for degree-granting connections. Some of the more distinguished members of the faculty had stood by him, and again in 1812 Queen's established a faculty of medicine and appointed these men to professorships, making Romayne professor of the institutes of medicine and forensic medicine. The school was carried on, as before, in quarters in New York City. Twenty-one students, including Joseph Rodman Drake, received the Queen's degree, but in 1816 the school was closed. Dr. Hosack said "it fell in its own weakness" (post, p. 34). Romayne died in New York the next year at the age of sixty-one. Samuel Latham Mitchill is quoted as having said of him: "His superior attainments in literature and medicine elevated him with high notions, and filled him with contemptuous notions of some who had been less fortunate in education than himself" (Hosack, post, pp. 90-91)
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(Excerpt from Dissertatio Inauguralis, De Puris Generation...)
Being a man of learning and wide culture, he attracted many students, and in time he had a medical school of his own.
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Samuel Latham Mitchill is quoted as having said of him: "His superior attainments in literature and medicine elevated him with high notions, and filled him with contemptuous notions of some who had been less fortunate in education than himself" (Hosack, post, pp. 90-91)
he married Susan, daughter of Isaac Van Dam, merchant, of the Island of St. Eustatia
