Before 1925
Long before Columbia-Presbyterian was a pioneering medical center, a venerable medical
school and a crusading hospital were New York City fixtures. When the College of
Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University united with Presbyterian Hospital to form
the new medical center in 1928, it brought to the union a 161-year legacy of excellence in
medical education and research.
The faculty of the College of Physicians ijr Surgeons, c. t86os.
From left to right: Robert Watts, professor of anatomy; S,lmuel St. lolin, professor of chemistry; Wilfard P.irker, professor of surgery; Thomas M.
Markoc, .adjunct professor of surgery; Chandler R. Gilman, professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and diseases of children; John C. Dalton Ir..
professor of physiology; and Joseph Mather Smith, professor of materia medica and clinical medicine. Alon/o Clatk. professor of p.ithoiogy, is
absent. These eight men. with a few adjuncts, were the entire faculty for more than 200 students.
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