Norwalk Medical Society. Organized December 21, 1868. Any physician in active practice in this town, who has had six months' professional residence, and who is eligible to membership in the Connecticut Medical Society, may become a member. Meetings are held on the second Monday in each month at the residences of the members. Tolland County Medical Association. Organized September, 1792. The annual meeting is held on the third Thursday in April. OFFICERS. President - A. R. Goodrich, M. D., Vernon. Clerk-G. H. Preston, M. D., Tolland. Fellows-Drs. G. H. Preston, S. G. Risley, C. B. Newton. Windham County Medical Association. Organized at Windham, September 24, 1793. The annual meeting is held on the fourth Thursday in April, usually in Putnam, Willimantic, or South Killingly. The annual assessment is two dollars. OFFICERS. President-Lowell Holbrook, M. D., Thompson. Fellows Drs. J. B. Whitcomb, John Witter, Samuel Hutchins, Charles Hosford, W. A. Lewis. Censors Drs. Samuel Hutchins, Lewis Williams, E. Huntington. Connecticut State Dental Association. Organized in Hartford, October 20, 1864. Meetings are held semi-annually. Hartford Society of Dentists. Organized in Hartford, June 12, 1865. Connecticut Pharmaceutical Association. Organized February 9, 1876. The objects of this association are to secure coöperation and concert of action in the advancement and diffusion of a knowledge of pharmacy and its collateral branches of science, and to promote the elevation of the professional character of, and facilitate an open and fraternal intercourse between its members. Reputable apothecaries and druggists, and teachers of pharmacy, chemistry, and botany, are eligible to membership. The annual meeting is held on the first Wednesday in February, at a place selected by the association. The initiation fee is three dollars, and the annual assessment two dollars. OFFICERS. President - Nathaniel Dikeman, Waterbury. Vice-Presidents-H. H. Osgood, Norwich; Henry Woodward, Mid dletown. Treasurer G. P. Chandler, Hartford. Secretary- Alfred Daggett, New Haven. MEDICAL SCHOOLS AND KINDRED INSTITUTIONS. Medical Department of Harvard University. North Grove Street, Boston, Mass. THE plan of study in this school was radically changed in 1871. Instruction is given by lectures, recitations, clinical teaching, and practical exercises uniformly distributed throughout the academic year. The year begins on the Thursday following the last Wednesday in September, and ends on the last Wednesday in June. There is a recess of one week at Christmas. The course of instruction has been greatly enlarged, so as to extend over three years, and has been so arranged as to carry the student progressively and systematically from one subject to another in a just and natural order. In the subjects of anatomy, histology, chemistry, and pathological anatomy, laboratory work is substituted for, or added to, the usual didactic lectures, and is as much required of every student as attendance at lectures and recitations. Instead of the customary oral examination for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, held at the end of the three years' period of study, a series of written examinations on all the main subjects of medical instruction has been distributed for regular students through the whole three years. Every candidate for the degree must pass a satisfactory examination in every one of the principal departments of medical instruction at some time during his period of study. |