The only trained surgeons on the staff, Delafield and Rodgers, saw patients back-to-back, prescribing treatments compounded by a handful of medical students enlisted from the College of Physicians and Surgeons who were trained in the apothecary arts. Securing outside funding was the logical solution. At the urging of Drs. A committee to draw up a set of institutional bylaws was formed, anchored by Colonel William Few, a cosigner of the U.