Category:Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia

English: The Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia was founded in Pennsylvania 1848 as the Medico-Chirurgical Society. In 1867, the society became a medical college able to confer degrees, although it was not until 1881 that Dr. George P. Oliver organized a faculty to teach classes. This was done on the second floor of a bank at the southwest corner of Broad and Market Streets. About 1886, the Medico-Chirurgical College absorbed the Philadelphia Dental College and the Philadelphia School of Anatomy and moved into a new location on the north side of Cherry Street between 17th and 18th Streets; the college also opened a hospital there in 1891. In 1916, the Medico-Chirurgical College merged with the University of Pennsylvania to form the Medico-Chirurgical College and Hospital Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. The College's buildings on Cherry Street were demolished in 1918 for Benjamin Franklin Parkway.