The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Medical College of Virginia.

--The large class upon whom the degree of M. D. was conferred by Professor Gibson, last Friday night, is a good indication of the prosperity of the College in this city. The whole number of students during the session just closed was 146. Virginia furnishes a large proportion of the number, but we hope that the fact will yet become appreciated throughout the South that as good facilities for obtaining a medical education exist here as anywhere else in the country. The new College building, which is a commodious and very handsome structure, will be completed within a few weeks, so that henceforth there will be no lack of space or convenience for the demonstration of science, while the hospital accommodations will be inferior to none. A few days ago we were conducted, by a polite member of the medical profession, through the anatomical museum of the College, and though we claim no fondness for dissected humanity, gaunt specimens of which stood about there like forked radishes, with heads fantastically carved upon them, everything we saw excited our "special wonder." The models recently procured from Paris are superb evidences of scientific workmanship, and add vastly to the facilities of showing a young disciple how a man is made up by nature. The museum will probably be transferred to the new building as soon as the apartments are ready for occupation.

The next annual course of lectures will commence on the 1st of October, and continue until the 1st of March ensuing.