Report of the Royal Commissioners appointed to inquire into the medical acts : with minutes of evidence, appendices, and index.

  • Great Britain. Parliament. Medical Acts Commission.
Date:
1882
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    IX. The president, treasurer, and honorary secretaries shall, ex officio, be members of the committee and council of management. X. The general meeting of the governors of the school shall be held once in each year, on or about the 10th of April, commencing in April 1883. XI. A special general meeting of the governors of the school may be called on the written requisition of three governors. Such requisition must have been duly noti- fied to the committee of management at one of its usual meetings by a letter addressed to the chairman one clear week at least before the committee meeting, and must state the reason for the summons. XII. No rule or law can be added to the above, or abro- gated, or changed, without the consent of a general meeting. Form of Bequest to the London School of Homoeopathy. I give and bequeath unto the Treasurer for the time being of the “ London School of Homceopatiiy,” formed in London on the 15th day of December 1876, the sum of pounds of British money, to be paid within months after my decease, exclusively out of such part of my personal estate, not hereby specifically disposed of, as I may by law bequeath to charitable purposes, and I hereby lawfully charge such part of my estate with the said sum upon trust to be applied to- wards the general purposes of the said school; and I direct that the receipt of the treasurer, or the reputed treasurer for the time being, of the said school, shall be a sufficient discharge for the said legacy. If a testator wishes the legacy to be paid free of duty, he will add the following words to the above form - And I direct that the legacy duty upon the said legacy be paid by my executors out of the same fund. N.B.—Devises of land, or of money charged on land, or secured on mortgage of lauds or tenements, or to be laid out in lands or tenements, or to arise from the sale of lands or tenements are void ; but money or stock may be given by. will, if not destined to be laid out in land. The following New Rules were passed at a Special Meeting of the London School of Homoeopathy, Decem- ber 15, 1881: No. 1. II That any student who has diligently attended the lectures during one winter or one summer session of the School, and who has passed, satisfactorily, an examination in the Principles, Materia Medica, and Practice of Homoeopathy, and a clinical examination in the hospital wards, shall be awarded the diploma of ‘ Licentiate in Homoeopathy,’ and shall be entitled to add ‘ L.H.’ to such titles qualifying him to practise as he may possess or hereafter obtain.” No. 2. ‘‘Physicians and Surgeons who are of good repute, and who have practised Homoeopathy for five consecu- tive years preceding the 25th of December 1881, may be elected, without examination, to the title of L.H., provided they apply to the Medical Council of the London School of Homoeopathy for such license before the end of December 1883, and are elected by the vote of the majority of the members of the Medical Council.” local societies, 38 hospitals, 40 dispensaries, 11 medical colleges, and 17 journals. The American Institute of Homoeopathy was the first National Medical Society in America; it was established in 1844. The institute is now divided into departments called Bureaux ; at present these Bureaux are arranged as follows:— 1. Materia Medica, Pharmacy, and Provings. 2. Clinical Medicine. 3. Surgery. 4. Obstetrics. 5. Gynaecology. 6. Paedology, 7. Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology. 8. Othalomogy, Otology, and Laryncology. 9. Microscopy and Histology. 10. Psychological Medicine. 11. Sanitary Science, Climatology, and Hygiene. 12. Organisation, Registration, and Statistics. Of the State Societies, seventeen have received Acts o/ Incorporation from their several States ; the oldest State society was organised in Massachusetts in 1840, and was incorporated by the State Legislature in 1856. Hospitals : The Pittsburg Homoeopathic Hospital con- tains about 40 beds and annually provides for from 300 to 400 patients. The hospital at Cleveland, Ohio, has 38 beds, and a college is attached. In 1870 a Homoeopathic Hospital was opened at Chicago. The Massachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital, also opened in 1870, has just received from the city of Bos- ton a grant of land valued at $25,000. New York has granted to the Homoeopaths, Ward's Island Hospital, capable of holding 600 beds, and pays all its expenses. New York has erected at a cost of $500,000 a Homoeo- pathic Asylum for the insane at Middlesex. The State, besides supporting the asylum, has this year voted $175,000 for the erection of an additional building; the asylum will then be capable of receiving 350 inmates. The following is the order in which the 11 Colleges were opened: In 1848, the Philadelphia College; (in 1869 it was merged into the Hahnemann Medical College, Phila- delphia, Pa.). In 1849, the Homoeopathic Hospital College, Cleve- land, Ohio. In 1858, the Homoeopathic Medical Colleges of Missouri, changed in 1880 to St. Louis’ College of Homoeopathic Physicians and Surgeons. In 1859, the New York Homoeopathic Medical College. In 1859, the Hahnemann Medical College and Hos- pital, Chicago. In 1860, the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women. In 1862, the Pulte Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1873, Boston University School of Medicine. In 1875, Michigan University Homoeopathic Medical Department, Ann Arbor, Mich. In 1876, Chicago Homoeopathic College. In 1878, Iowa University Homoeopathic Department, Iowa City, la. Homoeopathic Colleges were among the first, if not the very first to require a preliminary examination or matricu- lation. They were also the first to establish a graded course of study, with yearly •examinations. They were also the first to require three full years of attendance in the College, and the first to establish a four years' course. The average accession of physicians graduating annually from the homoeopathic schools in America amounts to 290 physicians. (The above will show that the obtaining degrees from the homoeopathic colleges in America is surrounded by greater difficulties than are opposed to obtaining them from the allopathic. W.B.) Appendix V. to Dr. Bayes’ Letter. United States—By Professor Talbot. (Abridged from the Reports of the International Homoeopathic Convention, held in London, July, 1881.) This country has upwards of 6,000 homoeopathic practitioners, 26 organised State societies, more than 100