Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-01-16

| ESQ far as degrees and titles are concerned,)
| for the University of London, the only de-
| gree-conferring medicalinstitution in Eng
| land. To show you
HOW DIFFICULT 1T is TO GET ''M. D.
| the candidate has to pass
| LIST. The Naturalization Examination on
English, Latin, Greek, Algebra, &c.
| I'd. Preliminary Scientific Examination
| on Natural Philosophy, Botany, Chemistry
and Comparative Anatomy.
3d. To have been engaged in his profess
| SiOnal studies four years after matrlcuja-
| ton: to have been Il student during two
years at one of the medical schools recog
! inzed by the University; to have dssected
| during two winter sessions; to have at
| tended courses of Practical Chemistry and
Practical Pharmacy.
4th. To pass the first M. B. Bachelor of
| Medicine examination. This costs e5,
! whether he pass or fail, when after about
| three years of specified study and attend
ance on medical and surgical practice OF
recognized hospital, with clinical instruc-
| ton and lectures ON clinical medicine and
surgery, he is permitted, after paying Go,
to try
5th. To pass the second M. B. examina-
| ton. If successful, then after two years
attention to clinical or practical medicine
| in hospital or medical institution recOg
| nlZGQ Dy JIG university, TIC Is d0lulGGCu VII
payment of 95 to stand the
9Th. I'M. d. examination which embra-
ces not only Medicine, but Logic and Nor
al Philosophy.
1 don't think I'll take M d. University
| of London.' Some of these old dodgers,
authors of we'll known medical works stick
IN. B. Univ London" to their names on
the title page with as much pride as young
America writes himself down IN. D."
1t is every whit as hard to get the de-
grees here of B. S. Bachelor of Surgery
and NJ. 5. Master Of Surgery,) as it is to
obtain NJ. B. and M. D. You know
SURGERY AND MEDICINE ARE SEPARATE
AND DISTINCT PROFESSIONS
here, though man has to be well versed
in both.
The Surgeons are all called 'Mr." and
only the Physicians are styled CDR" We
don't have as many Doctors in England as
| at home.
The house physicians and house sur
geons, the assistant physicians and assis-
tant surgeons in these large hospitals are
selected according to merit from gentle
men who have obtained their professional
diplomas from the University of London.
| The different ''dressers" Surgeons dresss
sers, assistant surgeons dreSsers, &c. y are
| the positions assigned the medical students
| LII tuIn, each SCI wing III " HloiltilS stI
a time. These bandage, splint, skin graft,
and in fact have the general practical man
agement of the case, under the guidance
and direction of the surgeon in charge. |
| do not regret that my turn for becoming
dresser is yet some distance off Their
| system is so entirely different from ours
| that whilst am daily following the physi-
clans and surgeons around through the va
rious wards, studying disease at the bed
| side, it's cause, nature, treatment and pre-
| vention, l am at the same time becoming
gradually initiated into their methods Of
| treatment, SC. Besides, l am now at lib
erty to visit the other large hospitals ON
their operating days, thus having the OPP
| portunity OF becoming acquainted with
| London, it's immense and far-famed hospi-
| tails and celebrated surgeons, whose names
and doctrines are as familiar to every tyro
| in medicine as that of Hipocrates himself
Thus grow familiar with the faces, voices
and manner of of welding the scalpel, of
worthless whose names | had heard and
whose works had studied heretofore
For example, here is
OLD MAN SIMON,
at st. Thomas Little did 1 think this
time last year, when scarcely a day would
'what Simon says on this subject, :" that
would this winter meet and be under the
old gentleman. Little did I dream then
that would now greet, twice in each week,
ut st. Thomas the man who proved to the
world that "a part does not inflame because
it receives more blood; it receives more
blood because it is infamed - and on the
strength of this little aphorism is wrought
the revolution in the whole treatment, from
that OF treating one of the effects, to the re-
moval (if pOssible) of the exciting cause or
irlitant. Mr.. Simon pronounced Seenaon.)
is the express image of the late Mr.. Myers,
of Lexington. He is certainly a nice old
gentleman, and delights in instructlns the
medical youth. I've frequently seen him
in his rounds from one ward to another be-
come so much interested in some particu-
lar case, or on some point in surgery, that
he would stop and commence discussing
and explaining it to. the dozen or 50 Of
medical students following Elm, till ha
But might write a volume on she char
acters of the illustrious men, liza, the heal
ing art alonel of this graat city.
My time as dresser will come in the sum-
mer session, which lasts from May l till |
BESIDES going daily from 9 till 10 to |
the various wards, and in the P. NJ. to- some |
Of the most important lectures, on to- the I
dissecting Amphitheatre, Library and MI,
SGttUI, ~ lcSuld ia eEIG 'Out-D2ClpNf |
department" Here thsSurgeon and Phy-
stefan in charge turn over to the student |
cases to take to one side examine and
render 2 nasls-which being reported |
back he sees If it is correct. This is one IT |
the best features Of the hospital and is az
actly like Office practice.
also 60 to the
"oPTHALMIc DEPARTMENT"
Here, not only SEQ operations, but have
unlimited opportunity Of becoming famil-
lar with and practised in the art of opthal-
mqQseopy Tor the use!of the opthalmoscope. !
Once or twice when l; have been rather
late, old, Mr.. Lsiebreich, the inventor of the
instrument. Tor rather the moss approved
form Of it), though he did not know at ali
who was or where was from, yet, seeing
was in earnest ana anxious TO learn told
me to ststapd right there, 'in the middle
of The room filled with people sitting
around) and he would showme some cases,
then bringing a good many patients and
them in a row before the instru.
lhent would show and explain to me TER
cases with diagnosis and Treatment. Two
icaI Laboratory viz WShsys there are 20 S'o or Is
most beautiful apacostly miscroscopes az
ranged with the various tissues, healthy
asnd.unhealthyo on the field OF view ready for
eXanainaeian and study,
Thus my time Is filled the six days of
the week from A. M. till $50 P. NJ, with
q few minutes at O'Clock for lunch.
l think I may say that he Hospital ad-
vantages of London as far suspass those Of