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Philadelphia, Pa.

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MEDICO CHIRURGICAL COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA.
Philadelphia, Pa.

Organized in 1881. The first class was graduated in 1882.-The faculty embraces seven
professors, five clinical professors, four assistant professors, two demonstrators and one
instructor.

COURSE OF INSTRUCTION: A preliminary term of four weeks' duration, and a regular term of twenty-four weeks' duration, annually. Daily quizzes by the professors. Three years' graded course required.-Lectures embrace-Freshman year, pharmacy, dentistry. minor surgery including bandaging, histology, elementary anatomy, physiology, materia medica, botany, elementary chemistry, with laboratory instruction in practical pharmacy, chemical manipulation, practical histology, and also dissections.-Junior year, general and visceral anatomy, physiology, general chemistry, therapeutics, practice of medicine, surgery, obstetrics, gynecology, pathology, with laboratory instruction in analytical chemistry and pathological histology, also dissections, and the several clinics of the college. Senior year, regional anatomy, pathology, physiological chemistry, sanitary science, therapeutics, practice of medicine, surgery, obstetrics, gynecology, diseases of the throat and upper air passages, diseases of the eye and ear, mental diseases, insanity, physical diagnosis, diseases of the skin, diseases of children, operative surgery, together with laboratory instruction in medical chemistry and pathological histology, surgical operations upon the cadaver, and the regular clinics of the college. During the spring or auxiliary literary term, instruction will be given in natural philosophy, botany, physical geography, mental philosophy, principles of English composition, elements of the Greek and Latin languages, hygiene, comparative anatomy and zoology, medical jurisprudence, toxicology, mineralogy and geology. Practical instruction in pathological histology. physical diagnosis, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, pharmacy, chemistry, and electro-therapeutics.

REQUIREMENTS: For admission, (a) certificate of having graduated at a high school, or of having attended a classical seminary or college for one year, or of having passed a preliminary examination of a duly organized county medical society; or (b) attendance on the auxiliary literary term, the studies of which are: elements of English literature, of Latin, of Greek, and natural science.-For graduation: (1) twenty-one years of age; (2) good moral character: (3) three years' study; (4) three regular winter sessions; (5) one full term of physical and practical instruction in subjects in which instruction is given (mentioned above); (6) "passage of the different examinations."

FEES: Matriculation, $5; lectures, $140; demonstrator, $10; graduation, $30. STUDENTS: Number of matriculates and of graduates at each session reported, and percentages of graduates to matriculates

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Session.
1881-82

1882-83

Matriculates.
31

Graduates.

3

10

Percent.
96

Requests were made for a statement of the number of matriculates during the session of 1882-83, but no reply was received.

RHODE ISLAND.

Population, 276 531. Number of physicians, 396. physician, 698.

Number of inhabitants to each

SECTION 12 of chapter 85, Public Statutes of Rhode Island, 1882, having reference to the registration of births, deaths and marriages, provides that every clergyman, physician, coroner, undertaker or clerk of any meeting of the Society of Friends, shall cause his

name and residence to be recorded in the town clerk's office of the town where he resides. By another section of the same chapter, he is required to report, without compensation, all still-births, contagious diseases, and results of vaccination.

The physician is exempt from jury and military duty.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF BROWN UNIVERSITY.
Providence, R. I.

Organized in 1811. "Lectures were delivered and classes graduated annually, from 1814 to 1827, inclusive, excepting the years 1820-21, when it is believed that no classes were graduated. The department fell under President Wayland's strict rules of discipline, enforced on the medical professors."-[G. W. PARSONS, M. D., of Providence.

SOUTH CAROLINA.

Population, 995 577. Number of physicians, 919. Number of inhabitants to each physician, 1084.

AN ACT to Regulate the Licensing of Physicians and Surgeons.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same: A person shall not practice physic or surgery for compensation within the State unless he is twenty-one years of age, and either has been heretofore authorized so to do, pursuant to the laws in force at the time of hie authorization, or is hereafter authorized to do so by subsequent sections of this act.

§ 2. From and after the first day of June, 1882, every person now duly authorized to practice physic and surgery within this State, and every person hereafter duly authorized to practice physic and surgery, shall, before commencing to practice, register in the office of the clerk of the court of the county where he is practicing or intends to commence the practice of physic and surgery, in a book to be kept by said clerk, his name, residence and place of birth, together with his authority for so practicing physic and surgery, as prescribed in this act. The person so registering shall subscribe, and verify by oath or affirmation, before a person duly qualified to administer oaths under the laws of State, an affidavit containing such facts, and whether such authority is by diploma or license, and the date of the same and by whom granted, which, if wilfully false, shall subject the affiant to conviction and punishment for perjury. The said clerk of the court to receive a fee of twenty-five (25) cents for such registration, to be paid by the person so registering: Provided, that any registration made in conformity to the provisions of the act herein amended are hereby confirmed and made valid." This section, an amendment to the original act, was approved July 5, 1882.1

$3. A person who violates either of the two preceding sections of this act, or who shall practice physic or surgery under cover of a diploma illegally obtained, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by fine not less than ($50) fifty dollars nor more than ($200) two hundred dollars for the first offense, and each subsequent offense by a fine not less than ($100) one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not less than (30) thirty days nor more than (90) ninety days, or both. The fine, when collected, shall be paid, the one-half to the person or corporation making the complaint, the other half into the county treasury.

§ 4. A person coming to the State may be licensed to practice physic or surgery, or either, within the State in the following manner: If he has a diploma conferring upon him the degree of Doctor of Medicine, issued by an incorporated university, medical college or medical school without the State, he shall exhibit the same to the faculty of some incorporated medical college, or the medical board of the State, with satisfactory evidenes of his good moral character, and such other evidence, if any, of his qualifications as a physician and surgeon as said medical college or medical board may require. If his diploma and qualifications are approved by them, then they shall endorse said diploma, which shall make it, for the purpose of his license to practice medicine and surgery within this State, the same as if issued by them. The endorsed diploma shall authorize him to practice physic and surgery within the State, upon his complying with the provisions of section two (2) of this act.

§ 5. The medical board referred to in the previous section shall be composed of the physicians and surgeons constituting the local boards of health in various counties of the State-the local board of health for each county having jurisdiction over all matters contrary to this act, occurring within its borders.

§ 6. The degree of Doctor of Medicine lawfully conferred by any medical college or university in this State shall be a license to practice physic and surgery within the State, after the person to whom it is granted shall have complied with section (2) two of this act.

$ 7. Nothing in this act shall apply to commissioned medical officers of the United States army or navy, or the United States marine-hospital service.

§ 8. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. Approved Dec. 17, 1881.

SECTION 920 of the General Statutes provides as follows: In no case wherein the provisions of this chapter shall have been violated shall any person so violating receive a compensation for services rendered: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall in any way be construed to apply toļany person practicing dentistry, or to females practicing midwifery.

MEDICAL COLLEGE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

Charleston, S. C. (Pop., 49 984.)

Organized in 1829. The first class was graduated in 1830. Classes were graduated annually until 1862, when operations were suspended during the war, and until 1872, when they were resumed. Classes have been graduated annually since 1873.-The faculty embraces six professors, two assistant professors, two instructors and two demonstrators.

COURSE OF INSTRUCTION: One regular course of eighteen weeks' duration annually clinics at hospital. Graded course recommended, but not required.-Lectures embrace principles and practice of surgery, clinical surgery, pathology, practice of medicine, clinical medicine. physiology, chemistry, anatomy, ophthalmology, otology, obstetrics, gynecology, materia medica, therapeutics, microscopy, pathology, laboratory instruction (compulsory on first-course students).

REQUIREMENTS: For admission, none.-For graduation: (1) twenty-one years of age; (2) preliminary education satisfactory to the faculty; (3) three years' study: (4) two full courses of lectures; (5) examination in all the branches. Attendance upon lectures, habits and general character must be satisfactory to the faculty.

FEES: Matriculation, $5; laboratory, $5; lectures, including demonstrators and one hospital ticket, $75; graduation, $30.

STUDENTS: Number of matriculates and of graduates at each session reported, and percentages of graduates to matriculates

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Average percentage of graduates to matriculates during the past six years, twenty

nine.

REMARKS: Pharmacy students are also included in the number of matriculates here given-thus affecting the proportion of graduates to matriculates.

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Population, 1542 359. Number of physicians, 2688. Number of inhabitants to each physician, 574.

C. C. FITE, M. D., Secretary of the Tennessee State Board of Health, writes: We have no laws bearing upon the practice of medicine. In this State the practice of medicine is free to all. Indians, negroes. confidence men and all that ilk ply their "trade" with no restrictions whatever. Any man who claims to be a doctor is one; hence druggists who do not know enough to make a living, turn out as doctors in full practice before you know it. A farmer boy too lazy to plow reads an old work on practice, or "Every Man his own Doctor," invests $6 in drugs and is a physician, and being a "regular" we all consult with him. Our legislators will not touch, and our doctors are too timid to press, the subject; and so we languish in the old paths.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE AND Vanderbilt University.

Nashville, Tenn. (Pop., 43 350.)

Organized in 1850 as the Medical Department of the University of Nashville, and assumed its present relation in 1874. The first class was graduated by the University of Nashville in 1852; and the first diploma was issued by the Vanderbilt University in 1875. Classes have been graduated annually by the respective Universities since these dates.The faculty embraces ten professors, five lecturers and a demonstrator.

COURSE OF INSTRUCTION: A preliminary session of four weeks' duration, and a regular session of twenty weeks' duration are delivered annually. Daily examinations are held by professors. Clinics at hospital.-Lectures embrace anatomy, physiology, surgery, surgical anatomy, microscopy, materia medica, therapeutics, chemistry, obstetrics, theory and practice of medicine, clinical medicine. state medicine. diseases of women, diseases of children, diseases of the ear and eye, histology, pathology, physical diagno-. sis, medical jurisprudence, hygiene, operative surgery.

REQUIREMENTS: For admission, none.-For graduation, (1) twenty-one years of age: (2) good moral character; (3) three years' study; (4) two full courses of lectures; (5) dissection during one session. "The candidate is elected by ballot, and upon receiving three negative votes. will be rejected; but will be entitled to another examination by appearing before a full faculty, after all other applicants have been examined. No premature examination will be granted except by consent of the entire faculty."

FEES Matriculation, $5; demonstrator, $10; lectures, $75; graduation, $100. STUDENTS: Number of matriculates and of graduates at each session reported, and percentages of graduates to matriculates

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Average percentage of graduates to matriculates during three years, fifty.

Number of Illinois students attending the last session, 1.

Number of graduates in Illinois, 29.

REMARKS: The honorary degree was conferred, at the 1883 commencement, on a matriculate of the last session, 1882-83.

MEMPHIS MEDICAL COLLEGE.

(Medical Department, Cumberland University.)

Memphis, Tenn.

Organized in 1854.-Suspended during the war of the Rebellion. Reorganized in 1872. Courses of lectures were delivered until 187-. Extinct.

Number of graduates in Illinois, 2.

NASHVILLE MEDICAL COllege.

(Medical Department of the University of Tennessee.)
Nashville, Tenn.

Organized in 1876. Became connected with the University of Tennessee in 1880. The first class was graduated in 1878. Classes have been graduated each subsequent year.The faculty embraces thirteen professors and one demonstrator.

COURSE OF INSTRUCTION: One course of lectures of twenty weeks' duration and a preliminary course of four weeks' duration, annually. Examinations by the faculty daily. Clinics at hospital and dispensary.-Lectures embrace theory and practice of medicine. clinical medicine, chemistry, state or preventive medicine, insanity, hygiene, surgery, clinical surgery, obstetrics, clinical midwifery, medical and surgical diseases of women, diseases of children, general, descriptive and surgical anatomy, mat ria medica, therapeutics, physiology, medical jurisprudence, medical and surgical diseases of the eye, ear and throat, dental surgery.

REQUIREMENTS: For admission, none.-For graduation: (1) twenty-one years of age; (2) good moral character; (3) two full courses of lectures; (4) dissections during attendance in this school; (5) satisfactory examination by the faculty.

FEES: Matriculation (paid but once) $5; demonstrator, $10; lectures, $75; graduation, $10.

STUDENTS: Number of matriculates and of graduates at each session reported, and percentages of graduates to matriculates

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Average percent. of graduates to matriculates during the past four years, forty.
Number of Illinois students attending the last session, 6.

Number of graduates in Illinois, 17.

REMARKS: One honorary degree was conferred at the last commencement.

MEHARRY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF CENTRAL TENNESSEE COLLEGE.

Nashville, Tenn.

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 assistant professor, and one demonstrator.

COURSE OF INSTRUCTION; One annual session of nineteen weeks' duration. Three years' graded course recommended, but not required.-Lectures embrace: "During the first year's attendance, students will be required to recite daily in anatomy, physiology, chemistry and materia medica, have practical work in dissecting, and work two hours per day in the chemical laboratory. They will also receive instructions in elementary botany. At the close of the session, they are required to pass a satisfactory written examination in the above mentioned branches. The studies for the second year consist of surgery, gynecology, obstetrics, surgical anatomy, theory and practice of medicine, histology, microscopy, two hours' work per week in medical chemistry, and daily recitations and attendance on the lectures will be required. Written monthly examinations are required during the whole course." Lectures are also delivered on medical jurisprudence and diseases of women.

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:

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Average percentage of graduates to matriculates during the past two years, twentytwo. 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.

REMARKS: Seventy-five percent. is required to pass the examinations. The Dean writes that the requirements for admission and graduation will be raised as soon as circumstances will permit

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