The Hahnemannian Monthly Volume 22, Nos. 7-12

Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...of the society, N 0. 1506 Girard avenue, Phila delphia. These "orders" can be used by all physicians, and by any of their friends who purpose to attend the meeting. Our news pages will give an idea of the whole programme, and to it our readers are referred. IN DEFENCE OF OUR COLLEGES. In the announcement of one of our homoeopathic colleges--we forbear to mention its name--there is an attempt to discredit the "graded system" of college instruction. As this system is abundantly able to defend itself, the mere mention of the matter is all that is here necessary. But in connection with it appears the statement that in the graded system, the student attends but one course in each branch of study. This statement is so at variance with the fact, and so likely to mislead the student to his disadvantage, that We make haste to correct it. We know that in most, 'and we think in all of the colleges in which the graded system of study is pursued, two full courses of instruction are required in each of the seven cardinal branches--Anatomy, Physiology, Chemistry, Materia Medica, Theory and Practice, Surgery and Obstetrics, and that the student gives considerably more time to each of them, than is possible in the old-fashioned "two-years course." If the college which published the incorrect statement had but examined the announcements of her sister institutions, she need not have given currency to so hurtful a misrepresentation. While upon this subject, would it not be better for all concerned, if all the colleges should discontinue totally, their annual " brag "--that's the best' word to express it--about their " clinical facilities" and other "unequalled advantages," and...