SUPPLEMENTARY.

THROUGH the distribution of some 600 advance copies of the foregoing pages the following additional mattér, corrections, etc., have been obtained. Delays in the public printing office make it practicable to insert them in this place. They follow the same general order as in the body of the section-that is, alphabetically by States, and chronologically as to the colleges.

COOPER MEDICAL COLLEGE (San Francisco,) had a class of 83 matriculates, and graduated 19 at the last session; percentage of graduates to matriculates, 22.9; average percentage for the last six years, 23.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA MEDICAL COLLEGE (San Francisco) had a class of 63 matriculates, and graduated 11, at the last session; percentage of graduates to matriculates, 17.4; average percentage for the last three years, 23.

CANADA has no homeopathic school, but provision is made in some of the colleges for teaching homeopathy in accordance with the Medical Acts of the Dominion. The MANITOBA MEDICAL COLLEGE at Winnipeg was organized under the Manitoba Medical Act in 1883, but no announcement has yet been received.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGETOWN (Washington, D. C.,)— Faculty, as completed for the session of 1883-84, embraces seven professors, four clinical professors and two lecturers.

BENNETT MEDICAL COLLEGE (Chicago) has a chair of hygiene, although not so stated in the first announcements for the session of 1883-84. Duration of lecture term, six months. EDINBURG UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, incorporated under the general incorporation act, September 23, 1870; a fraudulent institution; removed to St. Louis and exposed by the ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF HEALTH, and since defunct.

CHICAGO HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE should read as follows: Organized in 1876. The first class graduated in 1877. Classes have been graduated each subsequent year.The faculty embraces fifteen professors, two lecturers and three demonstrators.

Course of Instruction: A regular session of twenty-three weeks' duration, and a spring session of six weeks' duration, annually. Three years' graded course recommended, but not required. A junior and a senior course (two separate and distinct courses) are delivered during each college term. Clinics, hospital and dispensary. Lectures embrace: Junior year, anatomy, physiology, histology, microscopy, materia medica, chemistry, toxicology, pharmacology, minor surgery, odontology, sanitary science and clinics. Senior year, institutes and practice of medicine and surgery, gynecology, pedology, materia medica, obstetrics, ophthalmology and otology, mental and nervous diseases, medical jurisprudence and clinics.

Requirements: For admission: "This college requires that all applicants for admission must possess good moral character, and present to the secretary satisfactory evidence of a good English education, such as is required of all matriculates by the STATE BOARD OF HEALTH of Illinois. It is not intended to make this examination technical or rigid, but every student must possess a fair English education. Previous medical matriculates. graduates of colleges and high schools, will be exempt from this examination." For graduation: (1) twenty-one years of age; (2) three years' study; (3) two full courses; (4) practical anatomy to the extent of having dissected every region of the body; (5) pass all the regular examinations.

Fees: Matriculation, $5; full lecture course, $50; perpetual ticket. $90; final examination. $25. To students who have attended two full courses in other colleges, including matriculation, the full lecture course is $30; to graduates of other medical colleges, $25. For partial course, each chair, $10; county hospital, lying-in hospital, and demonstrator's ticket, $5 each.

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 six years, twenty

seven.

Number of Illinois students during the past year, 64.
Number of graduates in Illinois, 81.

Remarks: The course has been lengthened one week since the last announcement. Female students are no longer admitted. They are excluded, not from any hostility, but * because of the peculiar conditions by which they are surrounded.

COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, Keokuk, Ia., has a chair of hygiene. IOWA MEDICAL COLLEGE, Keokuk, Ia., organized in 1858; extinct since 1860. KING ECLECTIC MEDICAL COLLEGE, DesMoines, Ia., organized in 1883. graduated in 1884. Faculty embraces nine professors, a demonstrator of anatomy, and two "professors of medical jurisprudence."

First class

Course of Instruction: Two annual sessions were announced the first year, but subsequently this was changed to "one term a year of twenty weeks only." "The faculty offer a graded course of instruction of three years.' Lectures embrace anatomy: "materia medica, therapeutics and diseases of women;" principles and practice of medicine, chemistry and toxicology; obstetrics, gynecology and diseases of children; nervous and mental diseases: ophthalmology and otology; physiology; dental surgery; medical jurisprudence; surgery.

Requirements: For admission. "No previous reading or study of medicine is required before entering college. Students will be admitted without reference to the school of medicine they have attended, or the preceptor with which they have studied."-Extract from First Announcement, page 9. For graduation: "Candidates must be twenty-one years old, and present testimonials of good moral character. Five years experience and one course of lectures, or two courses of lectures without experience. Must pass a satisfactory examination, either written or oral, at the discretion of the faculty."-Ibid., page 11. Fees: Matriculation fee, $5; fees for the course, $10; graduation fee, $15. Students: Number of matriculates, session of 1883-4, 30; of graduates, 9. of graduates to matriculates, thirty.

Percentage

HOSPITAL MEDICAL COLLEGE, Evansville, Ind., announcement received,* and the following is compiled therefrom: Organized in 1882. First class graduated in the spring of 1883.-Faculty consists of nine professors and three lecturers.

Course of Instruction embraces a preliminary course of four weeks during September, free to matriculates of the college; and a regular winter course, beginning about the first of October and continuing five months.-Lectures are given on surgery, obstetrics, chemistry, anatomy, therapeutics, physiology, practical medicine, medical jurisprudence. ophthalmology and otology; together with daily clinics in medicine, surgery and obstetrics, as the material will justify."

Requirements: There are no requirements announced for admission to the lecture course, but for graduation they are stated to be "three full years of study with a regular physician; two full courses of lectures, the last being at this college; the candidate must have reached his majority, and possess a good moral character; he must have dissected three parts of the human body and pass a satisfactory examination in each of the seven branches taught in this college."

Fees: Matriculation, $5; lecture, $40; practical anatomy, $5; graduation, $25.

Students: Session of 1882-3, matriculates, 11; graduates, 5. The secretary of the college writes: "One of the graduates had already graduated in another college. Our percentage of graduates to matriculates), therefore, is forty. One graduate in Illinois."

COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, Boston, Mass., has a faculty of ten professors. seven lecturers, three instructors, one demonstrator and four clinical assistants.

NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, Boston, Mass.; a fraudulent institution; now extinct.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (Minneapolis), is organized by the Regents of the University under their charter, with power to confer degrees in medicine. The law regulating the practice of medicine in Minnesota makes this faculty the Board of Medical Examiners for the State. The work is entirely different from, and in no way connected with, their functions as the medical faculty of the University. As a faculty they examine, and recommend to the Regents, candidates for degrees in medicine. As an examining board, after "an examination of an elementary and practical character." they grant certificates entitling candidates to practice medicine in the State under the law to regulate the practice of medicine. A comparison of the "Regulations" on pages 1-2, with the Act on page 90, will explain in detail the difference referred to.

WOMAN'S MEDICAL COLLEGE OF ST. LOUIS (Homeopathic), organized in 1883. Faculty consists of nine professors.

Course of Instruction: One annual lecture term of twenty-two weeks' duration. Lectures embrace anatomy, descriptive and surgical; physiology and chemistry; pathology, theory and practice; materia medica; obstetrics; diseases of women; hygiene, diseases of children. Three years' course recommended but not required.

Requirements: For admission, candidates must give evidence of good moral character, furnish credentials of suitable literary and scientific qualifications for entering upon a course of medical studies."--For graduation: (1) twenty-one years of age; (2) three years' study; (3) two courses of lectures: (4) evidence of having attended the clinics; (5) at least one creditable dissection of the usual division of the cadaver.

Fees: Matriculation (once only), $5; professors' tickets, $50; practical anatomy, $10; graduation, $25.

* See ante, page 192, at foot of Errata.

NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, Manchester, N. H.; a fraudulent institution, now extinct.

COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OF BUFFALO (not recognized, was also known by the titles. "Buffalo College of Rational Medicine," "Mohawk Medical College," and "Hamburg Canal College." These were one and the same institution, and not four separate ones, as might be inferred from pages 120-21.

MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO and MIAMI MEDICAL COLLEGE (Cincinnati) have added to their requirements, as set forth on pages 125 and 128, respectively, the following: Conditions of Admission to Lecture Courses-1. Credible certificates of good moral standing. 2. Diplomas of graduation from a good literary and scientific college or high school. Or, lacking these, C. A thorough examination in the branches of a good English education, including mathematics, English composition, and elementary physical or natural philosophy. Chairs of medical jurisprudence and hygiene have also been added to the respective faculties.

AMERICAN ECLECTIC MEDICAL COLLEGE, Cincinnati, Ɔ., organized in 1883, as the successor of the American Eclectic Medical College of 1879-82, which, in turn, was the successor of the Physio-Eclectic Medical College, organized in 1876, and neither of which institutions were recognized by the ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.

The dean of the re-organization of 1883 writes, concerning the published announcement for the session of 1883-84, and the requirements of the ILLINOIS STATE BOARD of HEALFH: "I think we now fully understand you, and have decided to come squarely up to the mark, i. e., to abandon intermediate positions; have but one graduating term per annum: exact preliminary school qualifications, and a full attainment of all basilar branches of medicine, with a curriculum embracing all usually required in a medical education," etc.

From the announcement for 1884-85 the following is compiled.-The faculty embraces ten professors.

Course of Instruction: One annual graduating session, beginning October 1, 1884, ending February 17, 1885.-Lectures embrace (each group by one professor) biology, psychology, functional pathology, and principles and practice of medicine; anatomy, general and operative surgery, organic pathology and practical anatomy (dissections); obstetrics. gynecology and diseases of children; physiology, histology and clinical medicine; ontology, bio-dynamics, and nervous diseases; mental and physical hygiene and sanitary science: medical jurisprudence; chemistry and toxicology; materia medica, general pathology and therapeutics; electro-therapeutics and orthopedic surgery.

Requirements: For admission, a certificate of college or high school graduation, or an examination in the usual English branches, and so much knowledge of Latin as is necessary to understand and use medical terms.-For graduation: Satisfactory evidence of good moral character: two full courses of lectures, the last in this college; certificate of three years' medical study and instruction under some physician in good standing: full and satisfactory examination in anatomy, physiology, materia medica and therapeutics, principles and practice of medicine, pathology, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology; fair examination in chemistry, forensic medicine and hygiene.

Fees: Matriculation (once only), $5; lectures, $60; hospital, demonstrator, dissecting material, $5 each; graduation, $25.

RHODE ISLAND has recently enacted the following:

An Act relating to Medical Examiners and Coroners.

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

SECTION 1. The Governor shall appoint, in each county, able and discreet men, learned in the science of medicine, to be medical examiners in such county.

(Sec. 2 defines the number of such medical examiners in each district.]

Sec. 3. If either of the medical examiners shal, at any time, from any cause, be unable to perform the duties of his said office, or shall be deemed by the Attorney-General for any cause disqualified therefor, a medical examiner from an adjoining district may be called upon to perform them.

Sec. 4. Every medical examiner shall hold his office for a term of six years, and until another is appointed and qualified to act in his place, unless sooner removed by the appointment of some other person to fill his place.

Sec. 5. Every medical examiner shall, within thirty days after his appointment, and before entering upon the duties of his office, give bond with surety to, and to the satisfaction of, the General Treasurer in the sum of one thousand dollars, for the faithful performance of his duties.

Sec. 6. If the condition of any such bond be broken, to the injury of any person, actions may be brought upon such bond as upon the official bonds of sheriffs.

Sec. 7. Medical examiners shall make examinations as hereinafter provided, upon bodies of such persons only as are supposed to have come to their death by violence

Sec. 8. When a medical examiner has notice that there has been found, or is lying within his district the body of a person who is supposed to have come to his death by violence, he shall forthwith repair to the place where such body lies, and take charge of the same; and if, on view thereof and personal inquiry into the cause and manner of the death, he shall, upon being thereto authorized, in writing, by the Attorney-General, or by the mayor of the city or president of the town council of the town where such body lies, make an autopsy in the presence of two or more discreet persons as witnesses, and shall then and there reduce or cause to be reduced, to writing, every fact and circumstance tending to show the condition of the body and the cause and manner of death, together

with the names and addresses of said witnesses, which record he shall subscribe. Before making such autopsy he shall call the attention of the witnesses to the position and appearance of the body.

Sec. 9. Should the medical examiner deem it advisable to have present a physician as one of the witnesses, as aforesaid, such physician shall also subscribe the record made by the medical examiner, and for such service he shall receive a compensation of five dollars.

Sections 10 to 21, inclusive, relate to the appointment of coroners, and their duties.] Sec. 22. If a medical examiner reports that a death was not caused by the act or neglect of some person other than the deceased, and the Attorney-General is of a contrary opinion, the Attorney-General may, notwithstanding such report, direct an inquest to be held in accordance with the provisions of this act, at which inquest he, or some other person designated by him, shall examine all the witnesses.

Sec. 23. The medical examiner may, if he deem it necessary, employ a chemist to aid in the examination of the body, or of substances supposed to have caused or contributed to the death, and such chemist shall be entitled to such compensation for his services as the medical examiner certifies to be just and reasonable, the same being audited and allowed in the manner hereinafter provided.

Sec. 24. When a medical examiner views or makes an examination of the dead body of a stranger, he shall cause the body to be decently buried, and if he certifies that he has made careful inquiry. and that to the best of his knowledge and belief the person found dead is a stranger, having no settlement in any town of the State, his fees, with the actual expense of burial, shall be paid from the general treasury. In all other cases the expense of the burial shall be first paid by the town wherein the body is found, and such town may recover the money so paid from the town where such person last had a settlement. Provided, however, that the General Treasurer or any town ultimately paying any such burial expenses shall have the right to recover such burial expenses from the estate of the deceased person.

Sec. 25. When services are rendered in bringing to land the dead body of a person found in any of the harbors, rivers or waters of the State, the medical examiner may allow such compensation for such services as he deems reasonable; but this provision shall not entitle any person to compensation for services rendered in searching for a dead body.

Sec. 26. In all cases arising under the provisions of this act, the medical examiner shall take charge of any money or other personal property of the deceased, found upon or near the body, and shall deliver the same to the person entitled to its custody or possession; or, if not claimed by such person within sixty days, then to an administrator, to be administered upon according to law.

Sec. 27. A medical examiner who fraudulently neglects or refuses to deliver any such property within three days after demand upon him therefor, shall be imprisoned not exceeding two years, or be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars.

Sec. 28. The fees of coroners shall, for the services specified in this act, be as follows, namely: For receiving and filing a duly attested copy of the record of an autopsy, fifty cents; for every page of two hundred words of written testimony, thirty cents; for each day's attendance in holding the inquest, five dollars; for the recognizance of witnesses, thirty-five cents; and for drawing up and filing a report in court, five dollars. Said fees having been audited by the State Auditor upon certificate of the Attorney General, shall be paid by the General Treasurer.

Sec. 29. Each medical examiner shall receive fees as follows: For a view without an autopsy, four dollars; for a view and an autopsy, thirty dollars; and for travel, at the rate of ten cents a mile to the place of view. He shall also have power, in case of an autopsy, to employ a clerk, at an expense not exceeding three dollars per day for each day's actual service.

Sec. 30. Every medical examiner shall return an account of the expenses of each view or autopsy, including his fees, to the State Auditor, and shall annex to his return the written authority under which the autopsy was made. The State Auditor shall audit such account and certify to the General Treasurer what items in such account are deemed just and reasonable, and such items shall be paid by said treasurer to the persons entitled to receive the same.

Sec. 31. Chapter 250 of the Public Statutes, entitled "Of Coroners and their Inquests,' and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed.

Sec. 32. This act shall take effect on the first day of July, A. D. 1884, provided that so much thereof as relates to the appointment and qualification of medical examiners shall take effect immediately.

MEDICAL COLLEGE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Charleston, S. C., organized in 1824; charter obtained in 1823. Permanently closed in 1839. During its existence its graduates amounted to 313. Dr. J. Ford Priolean, dean of the Medical College of the State of South Carolina, writes: The Medical College of South Carolina was organized under the auspices and control of the Medical Society of South Carolina, which elected the professors and examined the candidates for graduation of the college. In filling two vacancies the society gave offense to the other members of the faculty, which was increased by a difference of opinion relative to the status of some of the applicants for graduation; and in 1833 the faculty resigned in a body, and established another school, under the title of the "Medical College of the State of South Carolina"--having obtained a charter in 1832, and giving its first course in 1834.

The Medical Society elected the members of the faculties of both colleges, which continued in activity in the city of Charleston until 1839, when, having gradually declined in

number of students, the Medical College of South Carolina compromised with the Medical College of the State of South Carolina, and permanently closed its doors.

Both these institutions were known and referred to as the "Charleston Medical College:" but, except in this manner, there was no college having such a corporate title. VIRGINIA has recently enacted the following

Act to Regulate the Practice of Medicine and Surgery.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. There shall be for this State a Board of Medical Examiners, consisting of three members from each Congressional district in the State, and two from the State at large, whose term of office shall be four years, or until their successors are appointed and qualifled. The term of office of the board first appointed shall commence on the first day of January, 1885.

2. The said board shall consist of men learned in medicine and surgery, and shall be appointed by the Governor on the first day of November, 1884, and every fourth year thereafter, from a list of names to be recommended by the Medical Society of Virginia. Vacancies occurring in such board for unexpired terms shall be filled in the same manner. Such recommendations shall be by the votes of a majority present at some meeting of said society, and the same shall be certified to the Governor by the president and secretary of such meeting. Provided, however, that in case such society fail to make such recommendations prior to the time of appointment, or if the Governor shall, in any case. consider the person so recommended, or any of them, unsuitable, then he shall appoint such board, either in whole or in part, without regard to such recommendations.* If any of said examiners shall cease to reside in the district for which he was appointed, it shall vacate his office.

3. The members of said Board of Medical Examiners shall qualify and take usual oath of office before the county or corporation court of the county or corporation in which they shall respectively reside. The officers of said board shall be a president, vice-president and secretary (who shall also act as Treasurer)-such officers to be members of and elected by said board. The first meeting of the same shall be at Richmond, at such time as the Governor shall notify the members by mail to assemble. Subsequent regular meetings shall be at such times and places as the board may prescribe, and special meetings may be had upon the call of the president and two members; but there shall not be less than one regular meeting per annum. Five members of said board shall be a quorum: said board may organize at its first meeting, and may, at its first or any subsequent meeting, prescribe rules, regulations and by-laws for its own proceedings and government, and for the examination of candidates for the practice of medicine and surgery by its individual members.

4. It shall be the duty of said board, at any of its meetings, and of the individual members of said board, at any time, to examine all persons making applications to them, who shall desire to commence the practice of medicine or surgery in this State. When the examination is by an individual member of the board, he shall report the result of the same to the president thereof; and when an applicant shall have passed an examination satisfactory as to proficiency before three individual members of said board, or before the board in session, the President thereof shall grant to such applicant certificate to that effect. A fee to be prescribed by said board, but not to exceed five dollars, shall be paid to said board (through such officers or members as it may designate,) by each applicant before such examination is had. In case any applicant shall fail to pass a satisfactory examination before the board or before the three individual members to whom he shall first apply, he shall not be permitted to stand any further examination within the next three months thereafter; provided, however, no applicant shall be rejected upon his examination on account of his adherence to any particular school of medicine or system of practice, nor on account of his views as to the method of treatment and cure of dis

eases.

5. The fund realized from the fees aforesaid shall be applied by the board towards its expenses, including a reasonable compensation to the president and secretary.

6. Any person who shall obtain a certificate as aforesaid from the president of said board, shall cause his name to be registered in the clerk's office of the county or corporation court for the county or corporation in which he shall reside; and it shall be the duty of said clerk to register the name of every such person presenting such certificate, together with the date thereof and the name of the president of the board signing the same, in a book kept for that purpose as a part of the records of his court, which shall also give the date of each registration, and his fee for each registration shall be one dollar, to be paid by the person whose name is registered.

7. No person who shall commence the practice. of medicine or surgery after the first day of January, 1885, shall practice as a physician or surgeon for compensation without having first obtained a certificate and caused his name to be registered as aforesaid. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall pay a fine of not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars for each offence, and shall be debarred from receiving any compensation for services rendered as such physician or surgeon.

8. Any person who shall have been assessed with a license tax as a physician or surgeon by any commissioner of the revenue in this State at any time prior to the first day of January, 1885, shall be taken as having commenced the practice of medicine or surgery prior to that date; but any person who shall not have been assessed shall be taken as not having commenced such practice prior to that date.

Amended then, so as to give the State Medical Society three months in which to make new nominations.