The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-24

Conn. ''Myxoedma with Report of a
 Case
 Eli Butler Ives. Branford. Conn, Re
 port of a Case of Endothelioma of the
 Kidney"
 Robert William Kerr. Newport. R. l.,
 "A Review of Dementia Paralytiea with
 Report of Case"
 John Edward Lane. E. A.. Hadley.
 Mass, The Present Status of General Anaethesia.'
 Joseph Pierre Lavalaye. New Haven. Conn. "Foramen of the Interventricu-
 lar septum of the Heart with History of
 Two Cases
 Joseph Abraham Loeb. New York
 city. Home Treatment of Tuberculosis
 With Report Of Case"
 Treby William Lyon, New London. Conn.,. ''Enuresis.''
 Joseph George Mahoney, Shelton.
 Conn.,. Statistical Data Concerning Tuberculosis and Its Location in New Haven from 1S97-1903 Inclusive
 Louis Adolph Notkins, New Haven,
 Conn, Heal Stenssis and Enteritis.'' Cyrus Edmund PendIeton, Hebron. Conn.,, The General Management and
 Treatment of Tetanus.''
 Walter Latham Rathbun, Noank, 1 Conn.,, Report of a Case of Tuberculo- sis"
 Robert Lee RowIey. Hartford. Conn.,, 'Dextrocardia." Frank Billings Standish. Meriden, Conn. Report of a Case Of Diabetes lnsipidus Associated with Syphilis =, DR. HURD's ADDRESS. Following is Dr. Hurd's address: It it apparent that the present re- quirements for medical education have become so expensive and exacting that schools which have hitherto been main tained as commercial ventures and for
 the private gain of their owners can no longer be profitable, if they honestly seek to do their duty towards the stu dent. Expensive laboratory courses are required in histology, embryology, anatomy. physiology. bacteriology, pa- thology, clinical microscopy, pharma- 1 cology and physiological chemistry. They necessitate much apparatus, many salaried instructors who are pre- cluded by their duties from adding to their income by private practice, and limitation in the size of the class to per
 init of personal work. Former meth ods of medical instruction dealt with students en masse; present methods must consider individuals, and the unit of instruction becomes one person in- stead of five score. If this altered ed- ucational condition is to be honestly met by school which depends upon it's fees for it's support, and to the credit of many schools, it should be said that they are making the most praiseworthy efforts to meet the requirement., it
 means loss of income and an ultimate extinction of the school. With many of them, in fact, the end is not far off. They already suffer from Falstaffs in- curable disease. consumption of the purse" On the other hand. if the situ- ation is not fully realized and frankly met, we must be Drepared to see, the commercial school retaining fits profits by furnishing insufficient medical in- struction and an inadequate training. The medical man is thus fitted, as in the past, to become practitioner rath- CT than student and teacher. To modify phrase used by another such
 schools can do something for learners and but little for learning" in other words, they can help the doctor. but not the science of medicine.
 UNIVERSITY MUST SET STAND ARD.
 The present situation then, demands that schools connected with universi- ties shall perceive the needs of the stu dent and protect him from imposition by affording him. instruction of a high standard. The working of the law of supply and demand. it is universally agreed, is no longer adequate to supply the higher education. It must be en- dowed or furnished by the state Indi- vidual enterprise and initiative can no longer be depended upon to teach as- tronomy, the classics higher mathe- matics or any other than technical os purely bread-and-butt branches. Medical instruction cannot be left to the initiative of the &private school any more than can instruction in any other form of higher knowledge. If instruc- tion in medicine is. to form part of the university curriculum, the work should be done thoroughly and in such a man. ner as to add to the dignity of the sci ence. I am aware that, mainly because of the imperfect preliminary education required for admission to the study Of medicine, there has always been query in the minds of university authorities
 as to the status of medical science and it's claims to be considered a liberal study. The medical student at uni-
 versity was formerly far from being
 matter of pride to his alma mater His