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Citizens of Lexington subscribe to Medical Department 42

Clifford, John D. 31

Coit, Reverend Thomas W. *83

Coleman, James B. 58

Coleman, Nicholas D. *35

Combs, General Leslie 58

Completion of Lexington & Ohio Railroad 58

Consolidation of the Transylvania and Kentucky Universities 56

Consolidation of the Transylvania Seminary and Kentucky Academy 5

Cooke, Doctor John Esten 15, 21, 40, 57 Biographical sketch of 64 As a lecturer 77 Cases from the practice of 66, 67, 68, 71 Character, by Doctor Yandell *78 Characteristic anecdote of 75 "Cooke's pills" 73, 74 Died 64, 65 In cholera of 1833 66, 67 In Louisville 77, 78 In Transylvania Medical School 64 Fame of 64 Logic of 76 Mammoth doses of calomel 73 Method of making antimonial wine *65 Only fear of calomel 70, 71 Removed to Louisville 64 Removal from Virginia 64 Retired on pension 78 Sincerity of opinions 74, 75 Universal theory of disease 76 Use of calomel 65, 66 Writings of 64, 78

Cooper, Doctor Thomas 27

Cow-pox introduced 9

Criticism of Doctor Caldwell by Doctor Yandell 48

Cross, Doctor James Conquest 106, *132 Biographical sketch of 105 Born 105 Character of 106 Dean of the Faculty 105 Dismissed from Transylvania 105 Made medical professor 63 Professor in Transylvania 105 Writings of 105

Daguerre's wonderful discovery 91

Dallam, Major William S. 90

Dallam, Frances Paca 90

Davidge, Professor John B. 122

Davidson, Reverend Robert 157

Decline of the Transylvania Medical Department 157 Causes of 57

Dedication of Morrison College 90

Description of New Medical Hall 162, 163

Description of Old Medical Hall 44

Difficulty of travel in early times 31

Difficulty of procuring anatomical material 61

Director, first, of Transylvania Seminary 3

Donation of Reverend John Todd 2, 3

Donations of physicians of Lexington, etc. 43

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