in literal compliance with the state board stipulations. The dissecting-room is spacious and well lighted. There is no museum; few books and few teaching accessories.
Clinical facilities: These are wholly inadequate. The Centenary Hospital, adjoining the school, is without educational importance. Its work is mainly private and almost altogether surgical. The school has access to the City Hospital, too, but its clinics, held one afternoon a week, are of little value.
The college buildings contain a suite of rooms used as a dispensary. A considerable attendance is claimed, but the arrangements are shockingly bad. The rooms are in poor condition and almost devoid of proper equipment.
Date of visit: April, 1909.
(11) American Medical College. Eclectic. Organized 1873. An independent school.
Entrance requirement: Nominal.
Attendance: 28.
Teaching staff: 28, of whom 25 are professors.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $3801 (estimated).
Laboratory facilities: Meager equipment is provided for anatomy, chemistry, pathology, and bacteriology. A small amount of apparatus for physiology demonstration, as required by the state board, is displayed in a case. There is no suggestion of use.
Clinical facilities are equally scanty. A weekly clinic can be held at the City Hospital; the rest depends on the professor's connections.
A dispensary room is also provided, and "almost every day some one comes."
Date of visit: April, 1909.
(1) Hippocratean College of Medicine. A night school. An independent institution, in its third year.
Entrance requirement: Nominal.
Attendance: 31.
Teaching staff: 30 professors, 8 of other grade.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $3315 (estimated).
Laboratory facilities: A brand-new outfit is visible in the shape of a few microscopes, physiological apparatus, chemical reagents, etc. But though two classes were in session, none of the equipment was in use, nor did its appearance indicate previous use. One of the classes mentioned was receiving eloquent didactic instruction in osteology, the other in anesthesia.
