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its name was changed to the Reform Medical College of Georgia. At Macon, previous to the war between the States, the career of the college was successful, graduating hundreds of physicians. Later, the title of the institution was altered to College of American Medicine and Surgery. In pursuance of the provisions of an act of the Legislature, in 1880 the college was transferred to Atlanta; and in 1884 the College of American Medicine and Surgery, and the Georgia Eclectic Medical College, which was partly conducted by professors who had been connected with the College of American Medicine and Surgery in Macon, were united under the original charter. The name of the institution was once more changed by the General Assembly of Georgia to the Georgia College of Eclectic Medicine and Surgery. This name it still retains.

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The course consists of didactic and clinical lectures, practical demonstrations-anatomical and chemical-and recitations, coupled with the presentation and defence of theses by the students. The subjects embraced in the lectures are anatomy, physiology and hygiene, principles and practice of medicine, obstetrics and diseases of women and children, chemistry and toxicology, surgery, materia medica and therapeutics, pathology and medical jurisprudence, and clinical surgery and urine analysis. A two years' study of these branches is required before the students are allowed to graduate. In this respect the institution corresponds with the medical college at Augusta. The faculty of this college likewise recommends a three years' graded course after the usual studies have been completed.

The college building offers comfortable accommodation to three hundred students; and, beside containing a general lecture-room, a chemical lecture-room, and a laboratory where general pharmacy and a course of toxicology are united with chemistry, is said to have a good museum of pathological and other specimens, and a fairly complete physico-chemical apparatus.

usual branches taught in other medical institutions; and whereas the friends of such a college have already subscribed liberally, in money and property, in aid of said object: Be it therefore enacted," etc.

This was done in 1854. The college had then been for thirteen years in active operation, having graduated its first class in 1841. In 1852 the State Legislature appropriated five thousand dollars to enable the board of trustees to erect a building, procure apparatus, etc., for the college. (White's Historical Collections of Georgia, p. 269.)

2 Viz, in 1874. Classes had been graduated every year until 1861. Operations were suspended during the Civil War, but were resumed in 1867. Students were graduated in 1868, and in each subsequent year until 1874, when the college changed its name. 3 The first class graduated under this name was in 1874. There were no graduating classes in 1877, 78, 79, 80, or 81. During the session of 1882-83 there was a class of twenty-four matriculates, of whom fourteen were graduated at the close of the session.

4 This institution, organized in 1877, graduated its first class the same year, and classes in each subsequent year until the date of its coalition with the College of American Medicine and Surgery.

This institution has until recently been a mixed college, women having been admitted to an attendance upon the winter course. Of the graduates during the session of 1886-87, twenty three in number, three were females. This plan, however, not having met with the success anticipated, the board and faculty have determined to provide a spring course specially for women, equal in every respect to that arranged for male students. The faculty consists of eleven professors and one demonstrator, and A. G. Thomas, M. D., LL. D., is its president.

ATLANTA MEDICAL COLLEGE.

This college is said to be the oldest institution of learning in the city of Atlanta, having been organized in 1854. With the exception of the war period, it has been in active operation ever since. Its graduates number more than one thousand, fifty-four having received the degree of M. D. at the last anuual commencement, March 1, 1888.

The faculty is composed of thirteen instructors, including a demonstrator in anatomy and an assistant to the chair of eye, ear, and throat diseases. Prof. H. V. M. Miller, M. D., LL. D., is its dean. Prominent among the professors is Dr. A. W. Calhoun, of Atlanta, who has charge of the department of the diseases of the eye, ear, and throat. With this branch of medical science Doctor Calhoun is thoroughly conversant, and as a successful and skilful operator his reputation is established beyond the borders of his own State.

SOUTHERN MEDICAL COLLEGE.

This institution dates from 1879, and is the most recently established of the medical colleges in Georgia. It is located in Atlanta. The number of its students has steadily increased since its opening. In 1881-82 one hundred and twenty-six were in attendance, of whom thirty-seven received diplomas at the end of the session. There are about three hundred graduates of this college. The last degrees conferred were in March of the present year (1888.) The faculty is composed of eight regular instructors and three auxiliary professors and special lecturers. William Perrin Nicolson, M. D., is the dean.

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CHAPTER VIII.

CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS.

AUGUSTA ORPHAN ASYLUM.1

We have seen under what circumstances and with what intents the Bethesda Orphan House was established at Savannah. Similar motives prompted the erection of an orphan asylum at Augusta. In furtherance of a desire, entertained by certain benevolent persons, to provide a home for orphans in that city, the Legislature of the State of Georgia, by an act approved January 22, 1852, incorporated "Thomas W. Miller, Henry H. Cumming, Edward F. Campbell, John Milledge, Artemas Gould, Lewis D. Ford, and John R. Dow, and all others who may associate with them and their successors," a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of The Augusta Orphan Asylum," and authorized the City Council " to make a donation of lots of land in said city, money, or the bonds of said city, to such amount as they might deem proper, to the Augusta Orphan Asylum, to be used for the purposes of the said association."2

PROVISIONS FOR ITS SUPPORT.

Some time elapsed before the society was prepared to undertake the care of orphans. Meanwhile, earnest effort was made, chiefly by Mr. Thomas W. Miller, to raise money by means of individual subscriptions.

In May, 1854, the first board of managers, composed of Artemas Gould, president; Thomas W. Miller, Lewis D. Ford, James Gardner, R. H. Gardner, Dr. James Mackie, and John R. Dow, adopted a constitution and by-laws.

Early in 1855 a house was rented and placed in charge of a matron, and four orphans were admitted to the privileges of the asylum. At the same time, steps were taken looking to the erection of an orphan house upon a lot appropriated by the City Council for that purpose. This, however, became unnecessary, in consequence of a liberal bequest made to the society in the will of Isaac S. Tuttle, Esq., who died on December 12, 1855, leaving the house formerly occupied by him on Walker 1 Augusta Orphan Asylum: Annual Reports from 1869 to 1877, and Reports of its Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting, April 20, 1837, and Thirty-fifth, April 18, 1888. 2 Sections two and three of act. (Laws of Georgia, 1851-52, p. 437.)