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The Madras Medical College is an educational institution located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It was established on February 2, 1835. It is the third oldest medical college in India, established after Ecole de Médicine de Pondichéry and Medical College Kolkata and is one of the foremost centres of post graduate medical education in the country with 425 Seats. At any point of time, more than 2500 medical and paramedical students study here.HistoryThe Government General Hospital was started on 16 November 1664 as a small hospital to treat the sick soldiers of the British East India Company.In its early days, the hospital was housed at Fort St. George. In the next 25 years, it grew into a formal medical facility Governor Elihu Yale (the benefactor of the world-renowned Yale University) was instrumental in the development of the hospital and gave it new premises within the fort in 1690.The hospital moved out of the fort after the Anglo-French War (1744-1748), and it took 20 years before it could settle in the present permanent place in 1772. By 1772, the hospital was training Europeans, Eurasians and natives in Western methods of diagnosis and treatment and methods of preparing medicines. These trained personnel were posted to dispensaries in the district headquarters of the then Madras presidency to assist the qualified doctors. By 1820, the institution had recognition as a model hospital of the East India Company. In 1827, Dr. D. Mortimar was appointed as the superintendent.