Identifier: historyofnewyork01loss (find matches)
Title: History of New York City : embracing an outline sketch of events from 1609 to 1830, and a full account of its development from 1830 to 1884
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891
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Publisher: New York : Perine Engraving and Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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side of the City HallPark, between Chambers and Chatham streets. officer at the capture of Louisburg, in 1758. Ho studied medicine and surgery with Dr.Richard Bayley, and completed his medical education under the most distinguished pro-fessors in Edinburgh and London. In 17.)4 he returned to America with the first collec-tion of minerals ever seen here ; also a collection of specimens of plants. The nextvear he was appointed professor of botany in Columbia College, and from 179(! to 1800he was a professional partner with Dr. Samuel Bard. In 1707 the chair of materiamedica was also assigned to him, which, with that of botany, he held until 1807, when hoaccepted that of materia medica and midwifery in the College of Physicians and Sur-geons. Meanwhile he had established the Elgin Botanic Garden (the second founded inthe United States), noticed in a future chapter. A catalogue of the plants he had broughttogether gave him a high position as a botanist. Dr. Hosaek, in connection with his
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FIRST DECADE, 1830-1840. 117 In 1790) the dispensary was incorporated by the Legislature of NewYork. In 1805 a union was effected between the dispensary and the Kinepox Institution, which had been established three years pre-viously for the purpose of inoculating or vaccinating the poor withcow-pox instead of small-pox. In 1810 the city corporation gave the dispensary a lot of land onTryon Street, afterward Tryon Row. The number of patients sorapidly increased in 1S2S (10,000 in that year) that the trustees werecompelled to seek larger space. They procured from the city authori-ties the gift of a lot at the corner of Centre and White streets, andthere was erected a brick building three stories in height, which wasfirst occupied in 1829. The first floor was used by the dispensary ; thetwo upper floors and the basement were rented for business purposes.On that spot is still (1888) the home of the dispensary. During the first year of the occupancy of the new building the num-ber of patie

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