An Inaugural Discourse, delivered at the Opening of Rutgers Medical College, in the City of New York, on Monday, the 6th Day of November, 1826

New York: J. Seymour, 1826. First edition. Inscribed by Hosack to John Grigg on p. 4. Engraved frontispiece view of the College building. 176pp. 8vo. Original pink muslin-backed boards. First edition. Inscribed by Hosack to John Grigg on p. 4. Engraved frontispiece view of the College building. 176pp. 8vo. Founded in 1826 by five physicians who resigned from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the New York legislature refused to allow the College to grant degrees and by 1830 the Medical College folded. In his discourse, the earliest publication of the College, Hosack sets out the aims and methods of the new school, as well as giving a detailed history of medical instruction in New York with biographies of the early professors. Sabin 33089 (note); Shaw & Shoemaker 24894