ADDENDA. MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA. Medical Department of the University of Georgia. Augusta. (Pop. 21 891.) Organized in 1829, as a Medical Academy, and has been in constant operation ever since. except during the period of the war. In 1873 it became the Medical Department of the State University.-The faculty embraces two emeritus professors, six professors. six lecturers, a demonstrator and prosector, an assistant demonstrator, and eight dispensary and clinical assistants. COURSE OF INSTRUCTION: One annual graduating course, beginning November 1 and ending March 1-seventeen weeks. Graded course of three terms recommended, but not required.-Lectures embrace obstetrics and diseases of women and children; medical chemistry and pharmacy; surgery and gynecology; anatomy and operative surgery;, physiology and pathology: materia medica, therapeutics, and medical jurisprudence; practice and institutes of medicine; skin and venereal diseases; diseases of the eye; throat and ear diseases; physical diagnosis. REQUIREMENTS: For admission, none.-For graduation: "A candidate for the degree of Doctor of Medicine must have attended two full courses in this, or one in this and one in some other college in good standing. No student of immoral character will be admitted for examination." FEES: Matriculation (once) $5; tickets of full course, $75; practical anatomy (once) $10; diploma, $30.-Where the graded course of three terms is followed, the usual fees are charged for the first and second terms, but the third is offered gratuitously. Two students from each Congressional district of the State are admitted gratuitously, and a limited number of beneficiaries are received from South Carolina. SUTDENTS: No lists of matriculates and graduates have been received. At the commencement in 1883, a class of 23 was graduated. REMARKS: In the last edition of this Directory, it was stated that no reply had been "received to repeated requests for information. College probably extinct.' While this edition is going through the press, the fifty-second annual announcement is received, from which the foregoing data have been obtained. NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL COLLEGE OF ST. JOSEPH. St. Joseph, Mo. AT a meeting of the Board of Incorporators of the Northwestern Medical College of St. Joseph. held September 24, 1883, it was unanimously Resolved, That this school be hereafter governed, as to its requirements, by the Schedule furnished and adopted by the ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF HEALTH, as "the minimum requirements" for the conduct of medical colleges; and that in future only such applicants as come up to the standard thus established will be admitted to the classes of the Northwestern Medical College. NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN, (Homeopathic). [SEE New York, page 117.1 New York City. STUDENTS: Number of matriculates and of graduates at each session reported, and percentages of graduates to matriculates Average percentage of graduates to matriculates during the past four years, twenty. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF SHAW UNIVERSITY. (Leonard Medical School.) Raleigh, N. C. Organized in 1881. For colored students.-The faculty consists of three professors. COURSE OF INSTRUCTION: Provision is made for a regular four years' graded course, arranged as follows: First year-anatomy, physiology, and general chemistry. Second year-practical anatomy, medical chemistry, materia medica, pathological anatomy, practice of medicine and surgery. Third year-therapeutics, obstetrics, theory and practice of medicine and surgery. Fourth year-opthalmology, otology, dermatology, syphilis, laryngology, diseases of the nervous system, of women, - of children, operative surgery, and forensic medicine. The four years' course is not obligatory, but it is recommended, "and no student will receive a degree unless he can pass a satisfactory examination in all the branches pursued in the four years' course." Students are divided into four classes, according to the number of years' study; and those who come from other schools "will be classified according to their previous study and medical knowledge." For the benefit of such students as wish to enter upon the study of medicine, and yet lack the required preparation, arrangements are made for a two years' course, preliminary to the regular course. This includes instruction in Latin, botany, physics, zoology, chemistry, physiology, and the use of the microscope. REQUIREMENTS: For admission, eighteen years of age; preliminary examination "sufficient to show their fitness to enter upon the study of medicine," or certificate of "previous standing in school from some principal or president of a reputable institution of learning."-For graduation: satisfactory evidence of good moral character; twentyone years of age; three years' study of medicine, or attendance on the four years' graded course; two full courses of lectures at some regular medical school, the last at this institution; dissection of the entire cadaver; thesis; satisfactory examination in all branches. FEES: Matriculation (paid annually), $5; five months' course of lectures, $60; ticket for any one branch, $15; graduation fee, $20. Students having paid for three courses at this school are admitted to subsequent courses on payment of matriculation fee only. STUDENTS: The class of 1881-82 numbered 3 second-year, and 8 first year men-total. 11. One of the second-year men was also a student in the Classical Department of the University, and was graduated at the commencement, May, 1883, with the degree of A.B. -The class of 1882-83 numbered 3 third-year, and 8 second-year men. No graduates. Thus far, all the students are taking the four-year graded course. REMARKS: Students are roomed and boarded at the University, the charges being. for room rent, lights and fuel, $2 per month; and for board, $6 per month.-Students of the Medical Department enjoy the benefits of the University library, and the lectures and general exercises of the other departments.-If a candidate for graduation fail to pass, "he may have a second trial, which shall be final; failing in this, his graduation fee shall be returned to him, and he may try again at the next annual examination, after having taken another course of lectures."-There are five regular scholarships, known as the "Leonard Medical Scholarships." open to "needy and meritorious young men;" and five more promised for the session of 1883-84. The announcement, from which the foregoing data have been obtained, was received too late for use in the regular order. See North Carolina, page 124. MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA. Philadelphia, Pa. Since the summary of this institution was printed, a letter from Dr. GEO. P. OLIVER (September 24, 1883,) has been received, giving the number of matriculates for 1882-83,-so that the item "Students" (see page 139) should read as follows: Session. Matriculates. Graduates. 10 Percent. Average percentage of graduates to matriculates, during the two years of the existence of this college, twenty-two. Dr. OLIVER adds that of the 27 matriculates at the last session, 14 were third-course, 9 were second-course, and 4 were first-course students. [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 children; - of the throat, nose and ear; of the nervous system; 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. 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. |