The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-19

cry State in the Union. A doctor from
Oklahoma heads the last list of
matriculates, and one of the last
names has Bar Harbor, Me-, written
after it. There was DIR. Yu from
Shanghai and Dr.. Ugai from Toxic. An
Iowa physician came to New York
with his wife, who is also practition-
er, and they spent several months in
the clinics.
II take my vacation here every win
ter said one of the students at the
college to a reporter the other day,
Not much Of a vacation, you may
think, but you don't know the joy Of
sitting back and letting some one else
do the work while you look and learn.
1t is remarkable what a world of good
/ get out of the course which am able
to take in this way"
The school was started in 1882 by
the post graduate medical faculty of
the University of the City of New
York, and from the start has been I'M
der the control of the Regents. DR.. d.
B. st. John Rosa has been president
from the beginning. The number of
physicians in attendance is constantly
increasing and the limit will soon be
reached.
The instruction of the school is en-
tirely clinical or demonstrative. The
school has it's own hospital, with nearly
200 beds, and it is possible for the prac-
titioner to witness several operations
each day. Examinations and dressings
are made in the presence of small sec
lions of the class. The free dispensary
Is valuable adjunct, each student see
ing a number of patients. Most of the
hospital cases and all those who are
treated at the dispensary are of poor
persons, which makes the school a fac
tor in East Side medical charity. Only
sixteen professors and instructors re-
ceive any pay for their work and this
on account of the difficulty Of their
tasks.
| In an elaborate annual report which
has just been issued an appeal IS made
for several worthy funds. The promin-
ence given trachoma by the health
board has brought victims to the school
by the score AS the disease is con-
tagious, its treatment is difficult. The
hospital would like seperate building
for cases Of the kind. Consumption is
being carefully studied and there have
been a number Of cures. Only about
one-fourtn Of those who apply can be
taken, owing to lack of room.
THE work of the post graduate
school is expanding in a most satisfac-
| tory manner" said President Rosa.
1T is gratifying to know that so many
American doctors will leave their work
in order to catch up in their professio
They are usually energetic, keen and
progressive-jus the sort that make
fine practitioners. The average age is
about forty, though we had physician
not long ago who was sixty years old
I'VE are beginning to receive recog-
milton abroad, as the recent Frankfort
instance shows. Several doctors from
European cities are now in the school
as students. We get a great many
from Canada and South America. The
latter have trouble with our language
but mango it in some way. The only
serious burden which we carry is the
question of support. Unfortunately, we
elected in the beginning to fight 1t out
on English subscription lines, instead
Of the Continental, so we are forever
going around with the hat. The -insti-
tuition is operated in most economical
manner, and the large faculty is, with
few exceptions, without salary. New
| York Tribune.