The Woman's Hospital
Lexington Avenue and Thirty-seventh Street, New York City. 
Published Date:1875



In 1860 a group of concerned citizens led by William Cullen Bryant, the noted poet, 
abolitionist, and newspaper editor, founded the New York Homeopathic Medical College. 
Bryant was a follower of homeopathy and the establishment of the college was a reaction 
to both the needs of the people of New York and to the harsh methods of the common 
medical practices of the time. 

The school was located at the corner of 20th Street and Third Avenue in NYC. From its 
beginning with 59 students and a faculty of 8, the college expanded rapidly. 
By 1872 the college had moved to larger facilities located at 
23rd Street and Third Avenue by acquiring the New York 
 
Ophthalmic Hospital and in 1875 the college began an association with the 
Metropolitan Hospital on Wards Island. The college had decided to build its own 
hospital and in 1889 the Flower Free Surgical Hospital was constructed at 
York Avenue and 63rd Street. At that time, the name of the institution was officially 
changed to "The New York Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital". 

In 1918 the college absorbed the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women, 
an institution with an equally distinguished history. Finally, a merger between the 
college and the Fifth Avenue Hospital occurred in 1938 and the institution became, 
as it is known today, the New York Medical College.2 The archives of New York Medical 
College still retain some documents relating to its early history and it is from 
these archives that some of the information presented here was extracted. 
 
http://www.homeoint.org/cazalet/histo/newyork.htm

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