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Jefferson Medical College

college, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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  • Thomas Eakins: The Gross Clinic
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    …led by George McClellan created Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1824. It served as the medical department of Jefferson College (then located in Canonsburg) until the state granted the medical college an independent charter in 1838. In 1877 it opened one of the first teaching hospitals in the United…

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    …led by George McClellan created Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1824. It served as the medical department of Jefferson College (then located in Canonsburg) until the state granted the medical college an independent charter in 1838. In 1877 it opened one of the first teaching hospitals in the United…

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