The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-12-01
For THE cLARIoN.l
A Mississippi Medical College.

With facilities for education in other
branches unrivalled why should our State
send annually from her bordens from IS
to 100 young men for the study of medi
cine
Ia the Medical department of Tulane
University OF La, there were last session
from Mississippi SO matriculates. n the
Ne mphis Hospital Medical College IA
making so in these two schools while
Mississippi supplied her quota to the
schools Of Nashville, Louisville, St. Louis,
New York and Philadelphia l am quite
sure a safe average would be 100. pro-
portion OF these would continue to 60
beyond the State il medical College were
established, but this proportion would be
met by corresponding inflow from adj
joining States.
OF an agricultural population, without
large cities, no school could be organized
in the State TO compete in anatomical and
clinical material with those of large
centres. To these young men must con-
tinue to go for finished and special medical
education. The advantages of intimate
study of endemic diseases, of State ac-
quaintance and of especial thoroughness
Of instruction might be made in great
measure to weigh against these disadvan-
tages.
As a move toward the establishment of
a Mississippi Medical College there might
be established a Medical Department in
connection with the State University The
purpose of this to be to give very thorough
nine months course in elementary medi-
cine There is already at the University
a most complete chemical laboratory with
better facilities for teaching chemistry
than | have seen in medical college To
this add two chairs-Anatomy and Physi-
ology. The chair of Anatomy might be
supplied with all the material necessary
for class demonstration, charts, manikins
and cadavers. In connection with the
chemical laboratory could easily be fitted
a Physiological Laboratory for demonstra-
ton and experiment. All this at small
expense. Nine months spent in this de-
partment would give a young man a most
thorough knowledge of these elements.
Nine months could not be more wisely de-
voted. it would be foundation such as
few physicians possess for the superstrue-
ture of clinical medicine and surgery.
The advantages OF the connection with a
literary University would be two-fold. L.
would enable medical students to combine
with their speeiel studies such literary
studies as they might be most deficient in
OF as DE u1uHl AtCSSSdff 10 AHSAE sue
cess. The importance of this will not be
unappreciated by many physicians whose
early education was neglected.
It would also enable literary students to
combine the elementary medical course, or
such Of it as they chose, with their regular
studies The importance of a popular
knowledge Of Anatomy, Physiology and
Hygiene has been already recognized By
the State and these branches are now i'm
perfectly taught in the public schools.
This would give facility fer higher
course in these studies to young men-and
young ladies as we'll, if the eo-educatien
abomination is not abolished-ofth the State. |
Space does not permit the further develop |
menr Of these ideas here.
Subsequently perhaps the Hospitals Of
the State might be consolidated at some /
central point and with them a Hospital |
Medical College formed.
The latter need not be distant dream,
and the latter need but the earnest advo
cacy of the proper men to become a present
fact A. +. HOLDER, Nj. u.
PIcKESs, MISS, Nov. ed, 1856