Excerpt from The Charity Hospital and the Alumni: Inaugural Address Delivered Before the Charity Hospital of Louisiana Alumni Association

To deny the inseparable relation of these two mutually creating, interdependent and self-adjusting functions of the Charity Hospital - the humane and educational - is merely to acknowledge an ignorance of the life and internal economy of that institution and of the origin and outgrowth from it of medical education in Louisiana. The first five courses of lectures of what is now the medical department of Tulane Uni versity, beginning in January, 1835, as the Medical College of Louisiana, were delivered at the Charity Hospital. The history of the New Orleans School of Medicine, which began in 1856 and continued to 1869, constitutes another important chapter in the record of its educational function. The New Orleans Polyclinic, established in 1887, and now ¿ourishing, is the latest chapter in the volume of its educational work.

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