摘要：THE American Medical Directory lists among the medical colleges of the United States that have existed the "Medical College of Utah" located at Morgan City.' The section on medical college histories tersely states that it was founded in 1880, graduated a class in 1882, and was extinct in 1883.2 Save for its listing in the American Medical Directory and brief mention in an unpublished thesis and in two books on Utah medical history, the Medical College of Utah has been almost entirely forgotten. The story of this Medical College is difficult to find. Inquiry made of historians familiar with Utah history revealed that none of them knew anything of the school except for the brief mention in the thesis and in the two histories which cited the thesis as their source of information. A search of the Deseret News, the West's oldest newspaper, and The Salt Lake Tribune, its principal rival, fails to reveal any mention of the Medical College of Utah during the years of 1879-1885. The Mormon-owned Deseret News and the then bitterly anti-Mormon Tribune were the largest papers in Utah during that time and normally would have carried comment on the school had it been considered important. No newspaper was published in Morgan during this period. A search of the historical collections of the University of Utah Libraries failed to reveal any further information on this medical school which antedated the founding of the University of Utah School of Medicine by some 25 years.
