[IN ADDITION to the institutions conferring degrees, the following facilities are offered to practitioners and post-graduates:] NEW YORK POLYCLINIC. Organized in 1882.-Faculty consists of sixteen professors and two adjunct professors, besides which there are thirty-seven assistants to the faculty. Clinics are held daily throughout the year, in diseases of the chest; of the throat, nose and ear; of the nervous system; of children; of the skin; of the eye; in general medicine; surgery: gynecology; and orthopedic surgery. FEES: Except for general and operative surgery, and for diseases of women (which are $25 each), and for diseases of the eye (which is $20), the tickets are $15 for each department, and are good for six weeks after date of issue. REMARKS: This is strictly a school of clinical medicine and surgery. didactic lectures, and none but practitioners are admitted. There are no NEW YORK POST-GRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL. New York City. Organized in 1882.-Faculty consists of eleven professors and six associate professors. Clinics held daily in clinical and operative surgery; diseases of the mind and nervous system-of the eye and ear-of the nose and throat-of the skin, genito-urinary organs and venereal diseases-of women-of children; orthopedic surgery and mechanical therapeutics; pathology and general medicine; obstetrics and operative midwifery. FEES: General ticket, for a full course in all the departments, from May 1 to October 1, $50; partial ticket, for any four courses, $20. REMARKS: Instruction is entirely clinical. Certificates of attendance are issued for any seven weeks of continuous study. PHILADELPHIA POLYCLINIC AND COLLEGE FOR GRADUATES IN MEDICINE. Philadelphia, Pa. Organized in 1882. Clinical and practical instruction in medical and surgical specialties, to physicians only, is given during the entire year. In addition to the clinical facilities of the college, the services of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Wills, Howard, Orthopedic and Presbyterian hospitals, with which members of the faculty are connected, will be utilized for instruction. Clinical instruction in electro-therapeutics is given, and the laboratories of pathology, microscopy and chemistry are open during the entire year. FEES: "Pupils will have an opportunity of attending the daily clinics from May 28 to September 30, inclusive, for a fee of $20 in each department." COLLEGE FOR MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS. St. Louis, Mo. Organized in 1882. The objects of this college are to afford medical practitioners, graduates and non-graduates the opportunity of reviewing their collegiate studies and of receiving additional practical instruction in the several specialities of medicine and surgery. Three sessions, each of five weeks' duration, annually. A diploma of associate membership is conferred under the following conditions: 1st. They must have attended a full course of lectures and the clinics of all the departments of this college. 2d. Must be a graduate of some recognized and reputable medical school. 3d. Must apply in their own handwriting for examination. 4th. Must have passed a satisfactory examination in all the branches taught in this college. 5th. And must present to the college a prepared physiological or pathological specimen (wet or dry), or a cast or drawing, with the name, address and the alma mater of the applicant attached. The fee for this diploma is $25. Persons who are not graduates of any medical college may attend the lectures in this college, and may receive a certificate of attendance, provided that they present to the college a prepared pathological or physiological specimen (wet or dry) or a drawing. *This includes four (4) examining and licensing bodies, which do not give instruction; and four (4) schools which do not confer degrees. Post-graduate and auxiliary institutions and courses-seventeen (17) in number-are not included in this summary. Total number of colleges now requiring attendance on three or more courses of lectures before graduation in the United States. Total number of colleges recommending and providing for, but not requiring attendance on three or more courses of lectures before graduation-all in the United States.. Total number of colleges formerly having chairs of hygiene.. now having chairs of hygiene.... Total number of colleges formerly having chairs of forensic medicine. now having chairs of forensic medicine... Total number of colleges requiring a thesis as a condition of graduation. Total number of colleges for women only in the United States.. in Canada ....... 28 16 22 43 7 32 50 8 71 49 8 58 11 Total number of colleges for both sexes (United States)... 23 Total number of colleges for colored students only (U. S.). Total number of colleges for both white and colored students.. 22: : Highest per cent. of graduates, by individual colleges-U. S. in Canada... Lowest per cent. of graduates, by individual colleges-U. S.. in Canada. 3,360 437 288 437 288 23 4,408 23 4,244 164 32.8 36.2 33.0 44.2 33.1 34.1 19.1 44.4 43.5 58.3 46.1 12.5 7.3 26.8 28.4 33.3 16 17 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 38 39 Totals.... 1 1 21 87 10 11 13 126 8 12 1 24 1 co 2 NOTE. The average duration of lecture terms is twenty-three and one-half (23) weeks. There are one hundred and one (101) colleges with terms of five (5) months or over; and forty-two (42) colleges have terms of six (6) months or over. |