ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE Illinois State Board of Health AT ITS MEETINGS DURING THE YEAR 1896 ANNUAL MEETING, SPRINGFIELD, JANUARY, 1896. The Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Illinois State Board of Health was held in the office of the Board in the Capitol Building, Springfield, January 7, 1896. Present: The President, Dr. Wm. E. Quine, Drs. Baines, Kohl, Vincent, Griffith and Stevenson, and the Secretary, Dr. J. W. Scott. The minutes of the preceding meeting of the Board were read and approved. The Committee on the Administration of the Medical-Practice Act submitted the following report on the application of the Southwestern Homeopathic Medical College of Louisville, Kentucky, for recog nition: Your Committee on the Administration of the Medical-Practice Act, to which was referred the question of the recognition of the Southwestern Homeopathic Medical College of Louisville, Kentucky, would respectfully recommend that in view of the fact that the former action of the Board had at the annual meeting, 1895, was based upon the showing that the college curriculum indicated that sufficient time was not devoted to certain branches of study and that in other particulars the college complied with the Board's re quirements at that time, and that the college had since extended its curriculum so as to cure this defect, the diplomas issued by that college at the close of the session of 1895-6 be recognized as a basis upon which to issue the certificate entitling to practice medicine and surgery in Illinois. B. M. GRIFFITH, M. D., Chairman. On motion of Dr. Vincent, the report was adopted and the secretary was instructed to notify the college of the Board's action. The Committee on the Administration of the Medical-Practice Act submitted the following report on the Kentucky School of Medicine: Your Committee on the Administration of the Medical-Practice Act, to which was referred the application of the Kentucky School of Medicine for recognition as in good standing before this Board, would respectfully recommend that in view of the fact that no question exists as to the equipment and teaching facilities of the college, but that its non-recognition has been heretofore based upon its non-compliance with the rule of the Board requiring four years of study and three courses of lectures, that upon the filing of a certificate in the office of the secretary of the Board, signed by the dean of the college and attested by the secretary, that every student to be graduated by that college at the close of the session of 1896 and thereafter shall have studied medicine four years, and shall have taken three full courses of lectures in three separate years, the diplomas of that school shall be recognized as a basis upon which to issue the State certificate entitling to practice medicine and surgery in the State of Illinois. B. M. GRIFFITH, M. D., Chairman, On motion of Dr. Stevenson, the report was adopted. Dr. Julius Kohl submitted the following report upon the American Medical College of St. Louis, Missouri: Mr. President:-On October 12th I visited the above named college. I was received by Dr. E. L. Standlee, the Professor of Anatomy, etc., of the institution, who took me through the building. The college building has a frontage of forty-two feet and a depth of eighty-seven feet, contains twenty-one rooms and stands on a lot 50 x 125 feet. The amphitheater is 30 x 35 feet, capacity of seating 150 students. It is supplied with two small storage rooms, one a dead room and one for the storage of dressings, manikins, cabinets, water and such apparatus as is used in lectures. The amphitheater is supplied with one glass operating table, one gynaecological table, one Boidin (French) obstetrical manikin, one disarticulating skeleton, one dissecting manikin, one case of instruments and surgical dressings. One flat floor hall, 25 x 30 feet; capacity for seating 75 students, now principally used for laboratory teaching, and contains 30 laboratory desks, especially fitted for students. There are nineteen of these desks fitted with full sets of apparatus for laboratory purposes. Each set consists of 1 microscope with two objectives and eye-pieces; 12 slides; 1 forceps; 1 lamp; 1 graduate; 1 urinometer; 1 glass rod; 1 holder; 6 test tubes; 1 dropper; 12 cover glasses: 1 needle; 1 bunch of Litmus paper; 1 bottle Potter's hydrate; 1 bottle nitric acid; 1 bottle Cupri Sulph; 1 watch glass. The microscopes are all of large size, excepting two small amateur micro scopes. Six microscopes of Holekamp, Grady & Moore, six microscopes of Bausch and Lomb, three of these of the B. B. Continental pattern, one microscopede optique, Paris; two microscopes of Baker, London, of high power, with eyepieces and objectives: one oil immersion and one water immersion; one dissecting microscope, B. & L.; one laboratory for crystals, B. & L.; two students' microscopedes, Queen & Co.; one professors' microscope, B. & L. Each class of five students have charge of a desk with key, and their work is obligatory. There are two general storage cases, containing one microtome, one freezing apparatus pr. sections, one cabinet of colorings, besides a large quantity of other staining oils, balsams, etc.; one bacteriological cabinet of slides, of Bausch & Lomb, containing 72 slides of pathogenic bacteria; one tumor series cabinet of 36 slides of Bausch & Lomb; one cabinet of pathological of 36 slides; one cabinet of normal histology with 36 slides; two cabinets of blood, spermatazoa and urinary, containing one hundred slides. There are also a box of slides of work done by last year's students. One Abbe condenser, 3 nose pieces, 1 Abbe Camera Lucida, 1 national turn table, 1 incubating water bath and oven, 1 sterilizer steam, 3 dozen watch glasses, 1 case of Bausch & Lomb re-agents. The chemical laboratory has two rooms, one 16x22 feet, one 8x10 feet. The small room is kept for storage of apparatus. The larger room has shelving on one side ard is used for work. It is supplied with a sideboard where students can work. There are three laboratory desks and one long table running through the center having top shelves for re-agents and drawers beneath for apparatus. The shelves are supplied with chemicals. There are 12 Bunson burners attached to the table and gas pipes. There is one gas flue for the escape of gases. There are from 20 to 25 sets of re agents, 12 sandbaths, 1 gas stove. The room will accommodate about twenty-five students at a time. The electrical room is 13x15 feet and contains a static machine of Alkinson patent, 4 plate, 28 inches diameter, one 20-cell Galvanic, one Tip Faradic of Kidder and one Galvanic Gautery with accessions. There are two dissecting rooms of ample dimensions, having six tables for dissecting purposes. The teacher of materia medica is supplied with a materia medica cabinet of Park, Davis & Co.'s and has access to the drugs of the dispensary and chemicals from the laboratory. The teacher of anatomy is supplied with 9 Marshal charts, two skeletons and all bones of the body unarticulated, one man manikin with organs removable. The teacher of surgery is supplied with the same two skeletons, one glass operating table, antiseptic douches, one set of dead operating instruments, one operating set of clinics, a case of surgical dressings. one dressing room for clinics used as a laboratory for the making of antiseptic dressings, etc. The gynaecologist is supplied with one gynaecological manikin, a model of the female organs; all instruments necessary. The obstetrician is supplied with a French manikin (Boidin) that cost $125.00, obstetrical forceps, etc. The teacher on practice is supplied with apparatus. A manikin showing the relation of organs and instruments for the application of medicine as in catarrh, examination of lungs, etc. The teacher on eye and ear is supplied with artificial head and eyes. A model of the ear and instruments for his work and teaching. The teacher on thoracic diseases is supplied with a model of the heart and lungs and instruments for examining those organs, also throat and nose. These are all owned by the college corporation. The clinics are held daily. The poor are admitted for examination and treatment any hour during lectures, but special days and hours are assigned for that work. There are about 300 cases treated monthly at the college. Students are divided into classes and after the instruction, clinics are signed to the classes and are attended to under the instruction of the clinician. as One halt day is spent at the city hospital each week, where clinical lectures on practice and surgery are held. Here a variety of cases are shown, such as are contained in the city hospital. A clinical record is kept, blanks are filled out and a record of cases noted. |