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. 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.