The Madras Medical College is an educational institution located in Chennai

Chennai

Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...

, India

India

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. It was established on February 2, 1835. It is the oldest medical college

Medical college

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 in India, along with the Medical College Kolkata

Medical College Kolkata

Medical College,Kolkata was established 1835 as Medical College, Bengal in Kolkata, India as the first college of European medicine in Asia...

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The Government General Hospital was started on 16 November 1664 as a small hospital to treat the sick soldiers of the British East India Company

British East India Company

The East India Company was an early English joint-stock company that was formed initially for pursuing trade with the East Indies, but that ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent and China...

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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

Elihu Yale

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 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

Anglo-French War

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, and it took 20 years before it could settle in the present permanent place in 1772.