RESOLVED, I.—That this Medical Society shall annually elect a board
of medical examiners, to consist of three members, whose duty
shall be to examine applicants for admission to the study of
medicine.
RESOLVED, II.—All applicants for admission as students of medicine
under the tuition of members of this society shall present
themselves before the board of medical examiners and
satisfactorily pass examination in the following requirements:
“I.— A written statement, previously prepared, setting forth the
candidate's course of study.
II.— An essay.
III.— Writing from dictation.
IV.— Spelling—Oral and Written.
V.— Reading.
VI.— Geography—Descriptive, Physical.
VII.— Political Economy.
VIII.— History—Ancient, Modern.
IX.— Geology.
X.— Botany.
XI.— Chemistry.
XII.— Natural Philosophy.
XIII.— Mathematics— Arithmetic complete;
Algebra, through quadratic equations;
Geometry, through plane geometry.
XIV.— Languages— English, standard school edition of English
Grammar;
Latin, Cæsar's Com., 4; Virgil, 4; Cicero's
Orations, 2.
Greek, the Reader; Gospels; Xenophon's Anabasis,
2.”
Candidates for examination may elect in French, Keetle's Collegiate
Course in French, Composition, Translation and Reading, and
Lacomb's History of the French People, instead of Cæsar's Com.,
Virgil and Cicero's Orations; and in German, Whitney's German
Grammar, Composition, Translation and Reading, Schiller's Willheim
Tell and Goethe's Faust, but such elementary knowledge of Latin
and Greek will be required as to enable the candidate to
intelligently comprehend the etymology of medical terms derived
therefrom.
RESOLVED, III.—No member of this society shall receive any person as
a student of medicine unless he present a favorable certificate
from the board of medical examiners.
RESOLVED, IV.—The time of study required by members of this society
shall be five (5) years, including lectures.
RESOLVED, V.—Members of this society shall recommend their students
to attend only such medical colleges as either require an
examination for admission similar to the one required by this
society, or make the full three-years' graded course of study
obligatory for graduation therefrom, and otherwise endeavor to
elevate the standard of medical education.
RESOLVED, VI.—That this society requests the Ohio State Medical
society to adopt the foregoing schedule of requirements and to use
its influence to secure legislation making the same obligatory
upon persons entering their names as students of medicine in the
State of Ohio.
RESOLVED, VII.—That these resolutions be printed and a copy sent to
each medical society in this State with the request that they
early report their action thereon.
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“Pioneer Medicine on the Western Reserve” is the title of a series of
articles which began in the November (1885) number of the Magazine of
Western History (Williams & Co., Cleveland). They are written by Dr.
Dudley P. Allen, which insures a warm interest in the subject as well as
a capable handling of it. The series is historical and biographical, and
the publisher promises several portraits before the last chapter in
March or April. Probably none of the Magazine's various serials will be
of more interest to the public, as well as to medical men generally. In
the opening chapters we enjoyed the author's skillful joining into
readable continuity of the broken facts that have been gathered from so
long ago.