MEHARRY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF CENTRAL TENNESSEE COLLEGE. ORGANIZED in 1876. The first class was graduated in 1877. Devoted to the education of colored students, male and female. The faculty embraces seven professors, one demonstrator. assistant professor and one COURSE OF INSTRUCTION: The ninth annual session began October 6, 1884, and ends February 26, 1885. A three-years' graded course is recommended, but not required. Recitations in anatomy, chemistry and physiology with laboratory work during first year's attendance. Lectures embrace anatomy, physiology, chemistry, materia medica and therapeutics, theory and practice of medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, medical jurisprudence, histology, botany, pharmacy. REQUIREMENTS: For admission-"Applicants must be at least eighteen years of age, of good moral character, and pass examinations in arithmetic, geography, grammar, reading, writing and spelling. Graduates of other recognized colleges and normal schools will, on presenting their diplomas, be admitted without examination.' For graduation: 1) twenty-one years of age; 2) three years' study; 3) two full courses of lectures; 4) must pass a satisfactory written examination in all of the branches laid down in this course, "including the outlines of Bible history and doctrine"; 5) present an acceptable original thesis on some medical subject. FEES: Tuition, $30; graduation, $10; materials for practical anatomy and chemistry at cost. STUDENTS: Number of matriculates and of graduates at each session reported, and percentages of graduates to matriculates Session. 1877-78 1883-84 Matriculates. Graduates. Percent. TTT 27.6 25.8 Average percentage of graduates to matriculates, during the past three years, twenty. Only the numbers of new matriculates, and not the total numbers attending the sessions of 1877-78, 1878-79, 1879-80 and 1880-81, being furnished, the percentages of graduates to matriculates have not been computed for these years. BOTANIC MEDICAL COLLEGE. EXTINOT. MEMPHIS HOSPITAL MEDICAL COLLEGE. Medical Department Southwestern Baptist University. MEMPHIS, Tenn. A. G. SINCLAIR, M.D., Dean of the Faculty. ORGANIZED in 1880. The first class was graduated in 1881. The faculty embraces nine professors and one demonstrator. COURSE OF INSTRUCTION: The preliminary course began September 29, 1884; the winter term began October 6, 1884, and will end March 1, 1885. Clinical lectures at hospital and college. Daily quizzes by the professors. Lectures embrace anatomy, physiology, chemistry, materia medica and therapeutics, theory and practice of medicine, pathology, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, ophthalmology and otology, toxicology, diseases of the nervous system, diseases of children. REQUIREMENTS: For admission, none. For graduation: 1) twenty-one years of age; 2) good moral character; 3) two full courses of lectures; 4) dissection during one session; 5) thesis; 6) satisfactory examination in all branches taught. FEES: Matriculation, $5; lectures, $50; demonstrator, $10; graduation, $30. STUDENTS: Number of matriculates and of graduates at each session since the organization of the college, and percentages of graduates to matriculates Session. Matriculates. 1880-81 1888 Graduates. Percent. 95 32 33.6 66 23 34.8 Average percentage of graduates to matriculates, thirty-four. TEXAS. TEXAS MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL. ORGANIZED in 1864. Reorganized in 1873. Formerly known as the Galveston Medical College. The last course of lectures was delivered in 1880-81. UTAH. EXTINCT. MEDICAL INSTITUTION OF MORGAN CITY. VERMONT. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT. BURLINGTON, Vt. A. P. GRINNELL, M. D., Secretary of the Faculty. ORGANIZED in 1823. The first class was graduated in 1823. Sessions were held, and classes graduated, annually, excepting in 1835, until 1837, when the sessions were suspended. In 1854 the department was reorganized. A class was graduated in 1854, and in each subsequent year. The faculty embraces fourteen professors, one assistant professor, one instructor, one demonstrator and one curator. COURSE OF INSTRUCTION: The graduating term of 1884-85 begins on the first Thursday in March. 1885, and will continue seventeen weeks; a preliminary course, opening the first Thursday of November, precedes the regular course each year, and continues to the following March. A three-years' graded course is recommended, but not required. Clinics at hospital and dispensary. Lectures embrace anatomy, physiology, chemistry, materia medica and therapeutics, theory and practice of medicine, pathology, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, medical jurisprudence, orthopedic surgery, diseases of the nervous system, ophthalmology and otology, dermatology, diseases of children REQUIREMENTS: For admission, none. For graduation: 1) twenty-one years of age; 2) three years' study; 3) two full courses in different years; 4) thesis; 5) good moral character; 6) satisfactory examination. FEES; Matriculation, $5; lectures, $70; graduation, $25; special courses, fees, $5 to $15. STUDENTS: Number of matriculates and of graduates at each session reported, and percentages of graduates to matriculates Average percentage of graduates to matriculates, thirty-seven. VERMONT MEDICAL COLLEGE, ORGANIZED in 18-. Extinct. VERMONT ACADEMY OF MEDICINE. CASTLETON, Vt. ORGANIZED in 1818. Suspended instruction from 1837 to 1841. Extinct since 1854. During its existence it graduated 350 students. VIRGINIA. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Albermarle County. JAMES F. HARRISON, M. D., Chairman of Faculty. ORGANIZED in 1825. The first class graduated in July, 1828. There was no graduating class in 1862. The faculty embraces four professors and a demonstrator of anatomy. COURSE OF INSTRUCTION: One annual graduating session of nine months' duration. Daily examinations on the subjects of preceding lectures. Course is graded, extending over two years. Lectures embrace anatomy, physiology, chemistry, materia medica. theory and practice of medicine, obstetrics, medical jurisprudence, surgery and pharmacy. The arrangement of the lectures is such that the student acquires a competent knowledge of anatomy, physiology and chemistry before he enters upon the study of the principles and practice of medicine and surgery." REQUIREMENTS: For admission, none. For graduation:-"The degree of Doctor of Medicine is conferred upon such students as approve their fitness for the same by rigid and searching examinations. The daily examinations are taken into account in determining the fitness of a student for graduation.' FEES: Matriculation and use of library, $20; tuition, $100; graduation, $15. STUDENTS: Number of matriculates and of graduates at each session reported, and percentages of graduates to matriculates MEDICAL SCHOOL OF THE VALLEY OF VIRGINIA. ORGANIZED in 1826. Lectures were probably delivered 'until the breaking out of the war, 1861, although no information is at hand regarding the date of its extinction. MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA. RICHMOND, Va. M. L. JAMES, M. D., Dean of the Faculty. ORGANIZED in 1838, as the Medical Department of Hampden Sidney College, under which name it continued until 1854, when a new charter was obtained and the present name assumed. The first class was graduated in 1840. Classes have been graduated each subsequent year. The faculty embraces nine professors and ten adjunct professors. COURSE OF INSTRUCTION: One annual course of six months' duration. The current session began October 1, 1884. Daily examinations by each professor or assistant. Clinies at hospital and dispensary. The general plan and purpose of the course of instruction will be a judicious combination of the method usually described as the didactic, with careful and abundant clinical and experimental illustration; thoroughness of instruction being the aim in all departments.' Lectures embrace anatomy, physiology, chemistry, materia medica and therapeutics, theory and practice of medicine, pathology, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, hygiene, medical jurisprudence, pharmacy, diseases of the eye, ear and throat. REQUIREMENTS: For admission, none. For graduation: 1) two full courses of lectures; 2) attention to practical anatomy; 3) attendance upon clinical instruction; 4) thesis. FEES: Matriculation, $5; lectures, $120; demonstrator, $10; graduation, $30. STUDENTS: Number of matriculates and of graduates at each session reported, with percentages of graduates to matriculates Average percentage of graduates to matriculates, twenty-eight. *Includes pharmacy students. Includes one pharmacy graduate. Percent. 14.7 36.2 WISCONSIN. MILWAUKEE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. No DATE of organization is given in the announcement. The second (dated 1882, which would indicate that the institution was organized in 1881,) says: "This college is incorporated under the general law of the State of Wisconsin. Its faculty have full power to issue diplomas of medicine and surgery, and are possessed of all rights and privileges granted, or that may be granted, to colleges in the country." It is also stated that "the qualifications requisite for graduation from this college will be of the highest standard, and efforts will be constantly made to render the course of instruction still more thorough and comprehensive." What is considered the "highest standard" of qualifications requisite for graduation is shown in the following paragraphs from the announcement: "Provided, however, since many States have legalized the status of practitioners by examining boards, therefore, any person otherwise qualifled, and holding certificates of fitness or authority to practice from any State board of health, may become an applicant for graduation by attending a single course of lectures in this college." "Likewise, practitioners of five years of reputable and consecutive practice, upon furnishing a certificate of the fact from the county clerk and three good and reputable citizens, according to the following form, may become applicants for the honors of the school, upon attendance of one full term of lectures and passing a satisfactory exami nation." Upon this, and other evidence of irregularities, the ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF HEALTH has refused to recognize the diplomas of this institution; and its methods, the personnel of the faculty and general character, were fully exposed in the report of the Secretary to the BOARD, at its regular quarterly meeting in June, 1883. Since that exposure, the Attor ney General of Wisconsin has taken steps to cause the charter of this college to be declared forfeited for fraudulent and illegal practices, and the institution is now extinct. It has also been known by the name of "The Coney Medical Institute." ADDENDUM.-Under date, November 26, 1884, (received December 3,) DR. HENRY GIBBONS, Jr., dean of the Cooper Medical College, San Francisco-see page 5 of the CONSPECTUS-furnishes the list of matriculates and graduates for the session closed November 1, 1884. There were 80 matriculates, of which number 70 attended lectures," and 16 graduated. The following table gives the numbers of matriculates and of graduates, and the percentages of graduates to matriculates, at each session reported Average percentages of graduates to matriculates, twenty-three. The percentage for the session of 1884 is computed upon the full number of matriculates, as in all other cases. Auxiliary and Post-Graduate Institutions and Courses. AUXILIARY DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. SAMUEL B. HOWELL, M. D., Dean, 1513 Green Street. ORGANIZED in 1865. The faculty consists of five professors. COURSE OF INSTRUCTION: Although strictly collateral to medicine, and essential to the thorough education of the physician, the course is largely scientific in its character, and the degree of bachelor of science (B. S.) is conferred upon those graduates in medicine of the University, or of other recognized schools, who attend two full courses of lectures in the Auxiliary Department, pass a satisfactory examination before the faculty, and present an original thesis on some one of the subjects taught. Lectures comprise medical jurisprudence and toxicology; mineralogy and geology, (including a practical course on mineralogical and geological chemistry); botany, hygiene, comparative anatomy and zoology. The session begins in March and ends in June. The professor of comparative anatomy conducts, during the summer months, at a place on the Atlantic coast. a practical laboratory for special work in the subjects of his chair. FEES: The lectures are free to students and graduates of the Department of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania; to other matriculates, $10 for each professor's ticket, or $35 for the course; graduation, $10. POST-GRADUATE INSTRUCTION, MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. JAMES TYSON, M. D., Secretary, P. O. Box 2838. ESTABLISHED in 1880, although for many years previous a post-graduate course was afforded during the spring and early summer. The faculty consists of eight professors and ten lecturers. COURSE OF INSTRUCTION: Five courses of six weeks each are given during the year, the first beginning October 1, the second, November 12, the third, January 10, the fourth February 21, and the fifth, April 15. The teaching consists in bedside and dispensary lessons, in the practical examination of patients, and the use of instruments of precision in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. The following subjects are taught: Clinical medicine and physical diagnosis; renal diseases, with practical examination of urine; nervous diseases and electro-therapeuties: clinical surgery; ophthalmology; dermatology; otology; gynecology; operative and genito-urinary surgery, with venereal diseases; clinical and operative obstetrics; laryngofogy; diseases of children; practical physiology; medical chemistry, histology and pathology. FEES: Matriculation $5 (matriculates of the University of Pennsylvania exempt;) for each branch, $15, excepting practical physiology, $25, and medical chemistry, $50. A reduction of 15 per cent will be made when six or more courses are taken. |