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Title: History of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York (Medical Department of Columbia College)
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Dalton, John Call, 1825-1889
Subjects: Columbia University. College of Physicians and Surgeons Medicine -- Study and teaching Medicine -- New York New York) Physicians -- New York New York
Publisher: New York : Published by order of the College
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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a one-story laboratory annex ;and near by a carriage house, with rooms on thesecond floor for the accommodation of employees.All three buildings are of brick and terra cotta, fur-nished in various parts with granite sill-courses, lintels,quoins and copings. The Fifty-ninth street building is one hundredand forty feet long, and forty-three feet deep ; of fourstories above the basement, and sixty-six feet inheight, from the curb to the roof cornice. On thefirst floor, the main entrance leads into a central hall,sixteen feet wide and fourteen feet high, with trans-verse corridors extending east and west. Openingon the west corridor are the students reception room,fifteen feet by twenty-eight, a study room, twenty-eight feet by thirty-six, and a cabinet of osteology,from which students are supplied with parts of theskeleton, or with separate bones, for examination.On the east corridor arct the offices of the clerk antlsecretary, and an apartment for the; meetings of the 172 THE COLLEGE LN
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FIFTY-NINTH STREET. 173 Trustees and Faculty. The door of the coat roomopens on the main hall, a little beyond the crossing ofthe corridors ; and immediately adjacent is the stairwayleading to the students toilet room in the basement. On the second floor is the college museum, a roomthirty feet by forty-three, in the centre of the build-ing. The lateral corridors lead to the private roomsof the professors of anatomy, surgery, medicine, ob-stetrics and gynecology. The third floor is occupied,in the centre by the Swift physiological cabinet, onthe west side by the working rooms of the depart-ment of physiology, and on the east by rooms forrecitation, demonstration and examination. On thefourth floor is the main dissecting room, thirty-sixfeet by one hundred and five, lighted by three sky-lights, of which the central one is thirty feet by forty insize, and the two lateral ones each twenty-five feet bythirty. At each end of this floor are additional rooms,with separate skylights, for the

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