tunities for seeing fractures, injuries, and traumatic cases of all kinds are excellent, since, on a average, eight hundred street accidents are treated yearly. Surgical operations are performed in the amphitheatre.. There are special services for diseases of women, of the eye, the ear, the skin, and the nose and throat. Diseases of women and of the nervous system are also largely treated in the out-patient department. Clinical instruction is given by the physicians and surgeons two or more times a week. In these two hospitals, the facilities for witnessing Operative Surgery are unsurpassed. Twice a week operations are performed in the presence of the class. The number of these operations is large, reaching nearly two thousand a year. The variety is great, embracing every surgical disease and injury, including the surgical operations on the eye and ear. The Boston Lying-in Hospital. - More than six hundred patients were confined during the last year in the Hospital. In the out-patient department, over sixteen hundred cases were attended by the hospital Externes, who are appointed from the third and fourth year students. Clinical instruction is given in these cases by the physicians to out-patients and by the house physicians. The Boston Dispensary. — More than forty thousand patients were treated at this public charity during the past year. A new building has lately been erected at a cost of $50,000, where students have ample and excellent opportunity for seeing practical work in the diagnosis and treatment of cases illustrating the various branches of Medicine and Surgery. The Infants' Hospital. The wards of the Hospital are devoted entirely to children under two years of age. About three thousand children of all ages are treated annually in the out-patient department. The material of the Hospital is used throughout the year for teaching both students and graduates. Children's Hospital. - During the past year more than seven hundred cases were treated in the wards and about seventy-six hundred in the outpatient departments. Instruction in orthopedic surgery and in the general diseases of children is given by members of the hospital staff. The Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary. — Over twenty thousand patients were treated at this institution during the past year. These cases present every variety of disease of the ear and eye, and supply a large number of operations. A new and enlarged hospital, considered to be one of the best of its kind in the world, has been erected on land adjoining the Massachusetts General Hospital. It is believed that this building will provide adequately for the proper treatment of the constantly increasing number of patients. Long Island Hospital, Boston Harbor. This Hospital is designed particularly for the treatment of chronic diseases. It has two hundred and fifty beds, with an average daily number of patients of about two hundred and thirty. It has marked advantages for the study of syphilis, tuberculosis, diseases of the nervous system, and chronic diseases of the heart and of the kidneys. The number of autopsies is annually about 50 per cent. of the deaths, a fact which affords an unusual opportunity for the study of pathological anatomy. The material in the Hospital is used for clinical instruction by the members of the Visiting Staff. Students are also permitted to visit the Free Hospital for Women and the Carney Hospital on application to the physicians on duty. There are more than sixty appointments annually for Internes in the various hospitals, and nearly as many more for Assistants in the out-patient departments. Appointments for the Massachusetts General and Boston City Hospitals are for terms of one to two years (according to the service chosen); for the Boston Lying-in Hospital for six months; and for the Free Hospital for Women for nine months. LIBRARIES. Medical School students who are engaged in research work have access to the special libraries of the various departments on application to the persons in charge. The Boston Medical Library has nearly 35,000 volumes, about half of which are periodicals, and 30,000 pamphlets. Nearly 500 current journals and transactions are on file. There is a good reference library of modern books, including encyclopaedias, systems, etc. The Library is open daily, except Sundays and holidays, from 9 A. M. to 6 P.M. It is also open Tuesday and Friday evenings from 7 to 10, except during July and August. It has always been free to medical students. The College Library at Cambridge is open to the students of this School. The Boston Public Library, which contains a large collection of medical books, is open to students who are inhabitants of Boston. Students, not inhabitants of Boston, who have filed a bond at the Bursar's office, or deposited with the Bursar the sum of fifty dollars, may also use this library. The Bursar will furnish on application the necessary certificate of bond or deposit. WARREN ANATOMICAL MUSEUM. The Warren Anatomical Museum was founded in 1847 by JOHN COLLINS WARREN, of the College Class of 1797, Adjunct Professor of Anatomy and Surgery from 1809 to 1815, Hersey Professor of Anatomy and Surgery from 1815 to 1847, Professor Emeritus from 1847 to his death in 1856, son to JOHN WARREN, the first Hersey Professor of Anatomy and Surgery. This important Museum is open to students in the School, and its collections are used in demonstration of the lectures. Its Curator is Dr. WILLIAM FISKE WHITNEY. The collection has about nine thousand specimens, illustrating both normal and pathological anatomy and materia medica. These are placed in the hands of the student at any time during the day, upon application to the Curator. Besides dissections and serial sections of many bones, the anatomical collection includes many corrosive preparations, plaster and papier maché models of bones, organs, and various parts of the body, and frozen sections. The pathological collection is being constantly enlarged by the addition of numerous specimens, preserved in their natural colors by Kaiserling's method. EXAMINATIONS. The final examination in every required subject is held at the close of either the first or of the second term of the school year. The examination, therefore, in every subject occurs once a year, but an opportunity to make up failures in examinations is offered at the opening of the school year. The examination in certain studies of the first and fourth years is held at mid-year only, and is for those who are members of the School at the time, and for those entitled to apply for the degree, provided they have previously failed in those subjects. The June examination is for those only who are members of the School at the time and for those entitled to apply for the degree. The September examination is for those only who have been examined previously and have failed in the subject of the examination, or for applicants for advanced standing. In some subjects a portion of the examination consists of practical work in the laboratory. The exercises of the fourth year are omitted during the week of the mid-year examinations. The amount of time allowed for each examination is as follows:- First Year.-Anatomy* (3 hrs.), Histology and Embryology* (3 hrs.), Physiology (3 hrs.), Physiological and Pathological Chemistry (3 hrs.). Second Year.- Bacteriology* (1 hr.), Pathology* (2 hrs. written, 1 hr. practical), Hygiene (1 hr.). * Third Year.-Materia Medica and Therapeutics * (2 hrs.), Theory and Practice (3 hrs.), Clinical Medicine (3 hrs.), Pediatrics (2 hrs.), Surgery* (2 hrs. written, 1 hr. practical), Clinical Surgery (1 hr. written, The examinations in these subjects are held at the end of the first half-year. 1 hr. practical), Obstetrics (3 hrs.), Gynaecology (1 hr.), Dermatology (1 hr.), Syphilis (1 hr.), Neurology (1 hr.), Psychiatry (1 hr.), Ophthalmology* (1 hr.), Otology (1 hr.), Laryngology (1 hr.). Fourth Year. - Clinical Medicine (3 hrs.), Clinical Surgery (3 hrs.), Orthopedics* (1 hr.), Syphilis* (1 hr.), Ophthalmology*+ (1 hr.), Otology* (1 hr.), Laryngology * (1 hr.), Hygiene (1 hr.). Electives. — Anatomy (2 hrs.), Advanced Histology (2 hrs.), Histology of the Nervous System (2 hrs.), Embryology (2 hrs.), Physiology (2 hrs.), Physiological Chemistry (2 hrs.), Clinical Chemistry* (1 hr.), Bacteriology (2 hrs.), Comparative Etiology of Infectious Diseases (1 hr.), Clinical Microscopy* (1 hr.), Operative Surgery (1 hr.), Orthopedics (2 hrs.), Operative Obstetrics* (1 hr.), Gynaecology (2 hrs.), Dermatology (2 hrs.), Neurology (2 hrs.), Ophthalmology (1 hr. practical, 1 hr. written), Otology (2 hrs.), Hygiene (2 hrs.). In addition to the above examinations every student is required : — To dissect the three parts of the body to the satisfaction of the demonstrator; to present a satisfactory report of the analysis of a specimen of urine, and of the clinical examination of a specimen of blood; to receive practical instruction in anaesthesia; to work in medical out-patient departments during a period not exceeding four weeks, and to make a full written report on one or more medical cases; to present a certificate that he has satisfactorily served as a surgical dresser in the surgical out-patient department of the Massachusetts General Hospital or Boston City Hospital for at least one month after taking the course in surgical technic in the second half of the second year; to take charge of and report on six cases in Obstetrics, and to receive instruction on at least one of them; to furnish satisfactory evidence of having engaged in the practical exercises in Theory and Practice; to report a clinical case in each of the electives, Orthopedic Surgery, and Ophthalmology, if elected. In the fourth year, three hours of examination in electives are obligatory. The choice of electives must be made within the first two weeks of the School year, and must be given to the Secretary in writing on blanks furnished at the Dean's office. The general elective courses are open to all members of the fourth class who elect them with the intention of taking the examination. The examinations in the required courses in Orthopedic Surgery, Ophthalmology, and Otology cannot be taken by those who choose electives in these subjects. Instead, there is a two-hour examination in the elective, of which one hour is considered equivalent to the examination * The examinations in these subjects are held at the end of the first half-year. † In addition to the written examination in Ophthalmology, there will be a practical examination which will count as forty per cent. of the total. in the required course, and the other counts as a one-hour elective. The examination in elective Ophthalmology will be clinical, and include a written report of a case. No student is allowed to anticipate the examinations in the regular course of studies of his year, except by special permission of the Faculty. After two failures to pass in any subject, a charge of three dollars is made for each subsequent examination in that subject. DEGREES. Degree of Doctor of Medicine. Every candidate for the degree of DOCTOR OF MEDICINE at this University must be at least twenty-one years of age, and of good moral character. He must fulfil all the requirements for admission to this Medical School; must give evidence of having studied in a recognized Medical School at least four full years, of which one year must be spent at this School; must pass all the required examinations, and fulfil satisfactorily the special requirements enumerated on page 628. The degree of Doctor of Medicine will be given to those candidates who fulfil the above requirements. The degree of Doctor of Medicine cum laude will be given to candidates who have obtained an average of eighty per cent. or over in all the required examinations. Candidates for the degree must make application for it in writing, on blanks furnished at the Dean's office, on or before May 1 of the year in which they propose to graduate. Candidates for the degree of Doctor of Medicine are not required to present a thesis; but they may present a voluntary thesis which, if of conspicuous merit, may receive honorable mention; if the thesis is also of a suitable character, it may be read at the Commencement exercises. Theses must be completed and delivered to the Dean on or before the first day of June. A graduate of another Medical School of recognized standing may obtain the degree of Doctor of Medicine at this University by fulfilling all the requirements for undergraduates above mentioned, but he may take the examination in any subject only at the times when regularly it is held, that is, in September, at the mid-year, or in June. Degree of Master of Arts. The degree of MASTER OF ARTS is open to graduates of the Harvard Medical School who are also Bachelors of Arts of Harvard College, and to Bachelors of Arts of other Colleges who shall be recommended by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard College. Candidates must pursue an approved course of study in Medicine for at least one year |