Letter, Thomas Cooper, to J. Wagner. February 12, 1822.

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Letter, Thomas Cooper, to J. Wagner. February 12, 1822.

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The Letter, Thomas Cooper to J. Wagner, was written on February 12, 1822 from Thomas Cooper, President of the South Carolina College (later University of South Carolina) to Dr. John Wagner, a surgeon in Charleston and member of the Medical Society of South Carolina. Cooper inquired about the expediency of calling together the medical board (Medical Society of South Carolina) to "coincide with us here [in Columbia] on the plan of a medical school."

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