BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE.

This is the medical department of Boston University, and was opened for the instruction of students in October, 1873. An enabling act was passed by the Legislature of 1874, by which the New-England Female Medical College was united to this school, and its property transferred thereto.

This school has from the first occupied advanced ground, and was the first in America to present in combination the following essential elements of a thorough reform in medical education :

First, The requirement that the candidate for admission. either present a college diploma, or pass a prescribed entrance examination.

Second, The provision of a carefully graded minimum course of instruction covering three full scholastic years. Third, The provision of a four-years' course for those who wish to pursue their studies with special thoroughness, and with suitable leisure for collateral reading, and to obtain professional experience under direction of the faculty.

Fourth, The requirement that every student pass a successful examination upon the work of each year, before promotion to the next.

Fifth, The requirement, as a condition of graduation, not merely that the candidate shall have studied medicine at least three full years, but also that he shall have attended a reputable medical school not less than three years.

Sixth, The restoration of the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, to be attained at the end of the third year by those who take a four-years' course.

Seventh, A provision for visiting and examining boards, independent of the teaching faculty.

Eighth, The repudiation of all sex disabilities either in teaching or learning.

It has graduated three hundred and thirty-four students, most of whom are in active practice.

During the past year the students in the various classes. numbered one hundred and nine.

The following compose the faculty:

William F. Warren, LL.D., President.

I. Tisdale Talbot, M.D., Dean, Professor of Surgery.

Conrad Wesselhoeft, M.D., Professor of Pathology and Therapeutics.
Henry C. Ahlborn, M.D., Professor of Pathology and Pathological Anatomy.

J. Heber Smith, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica.
Walter Wesselhoeft, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics.
Henry C. Angell, M.D., Professor of Ophthalmology.
Mary J. Safford, M.D., Professor of Gynecology.
Caroline E. Hastings, M.D., Professor of Anatomy.

Herbert C. Clapp, M.D., Professor of the History and Methodology of Medicine,
Lecturer on Auscultation and Percussion.

In addition to the above, the following constitute the full faculty:

Denton G. Woodvine, M.D., Lecturer on Laryngoscopy, Rhinoscopy, and Diseases of the Throat.

Annie E. Fisher, M.D., Lecturer on Diseases of Children.

J. Wilkinson Clapp, M.D., Lecturer on Pharmaceutics.

James B. Bell, M.D., Lecturer on Surgery.

Joseph W. Hayward, M.D., Lecturer on Fractures, Dislocations, and Gunshot Wounds.

William L. Jackson, M.D., Lecturer on Minor Surgery.

Alonzo Boothby, M.D., Lecturer on Surgical Anatomy.

Elijah U. Jones, M.D., Lecturer on Sanitary Science.

Samuel Worcester, M.D., Lecturer on Insanity, Nervous Diseases, and Derma

tology.

B. II. Van Vleck, Lecturer on Physiology.

Edwin E. Calder, Lecturer on Chemistry.

Charles R. Fletcher, S.B., Special Lecturer on Chemistry.

Horace Packard, M.D., Clinical Assistant in Surgery, and Curator of Museum. Fred. B. Percy, M.D., Assistant in Materia Medica.

Adaline B. Church, M.D., Assistant in Gynecology.

Nathaniel W. Emerson, M.D., Demonstrator of Anatomy.

George R. Southwick, M.D., Assistant in Obstetrics.

Frederick D. Stackpole, M.D., Librarian.

Secretary and Treasurer, James Wilkinson Clapp, M.D.
Orator.

Annie E. Fisher, M.D.

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Formerly located in Vernon Street, Boston, and afterwards removed to Grove Hall, Dorchester, where there are accommodations for eighty patients.

Founder, and Physician in charge

Charles Cullis, M.D.

HOME OF THE NEW-ENGLAND MORAL REFORM

SOCIETY.

[ESTABLISHED IN 1836.]

The home has five beds, and the average number of patients for the last five years has been thirty-five each year.

AT the Annual Meeting of the Society, April 9, 1884, the following resolution was accepted:

Voted, That the Publication Committee be requested to include in the "Publications of the Society" such interesting or important papers as have been read in any local or county society in the state, and which the committee may think it desirable to so publish; also reports of homoeopathic institutions, and any statistical or other information specially pertaining to this State.

In accordance with this, your committee presents the following papers, deeming them worthy a permanent preservation.