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the Senate or having reached the age limit shall be retired as an emeritus.

(b) When vacancies occur, the Alumni shall recommend to the Board of Trustees for confirmation the candidates to fill said vacancies.

The college is in need of financial support. How may it be obtained?

(a) The assessing of every member of the faculty an annual stated sum, the amount to be proportioned to the value of the preferment.

(b) That the college clinicians be assessed a larger percentage than those who do not have clinics.

(c) The instructors of the so-called scientific chairs should not be assessed; they should be properly financially remunerated for services rendered.

(d) The chairs that should be assessed are Surgery, Gynecology, Obstetrics, Theory and Practice, Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat, Clinical Medicine, Physical Diagnosis and perhaps others.

(e) Let the standard of qualification for position in the faculty be determined by the capabilities of the candidate for imparting knowledge, scholarly attainments not to be the only standard required. If the members of the faculty contribute by assessments, the Alumni will more readily be inclined to contribute an annual stipend and become more interested in the prosperity of their Alma Mater and the laity to be approached with more assurance of contributing financial support.

Another suggestion that the business financial management of the college be left completely and entirely to a Bursor, who should be a business man, non-professional, who shall discharge all of the duties pertaining to the Registrar and Secretary.

The only official appointment by the faculty would be that of Dean who would preside at the meetings of the faculty. I would also suggest that no change be made in the present roster of the faculty, but if the incumbent of any of the chairs should prove unsatisfactory, then have the place filled as proposed in the foregoing plan. Or insist upon the resignation of all of the members of the present faculty and have their places filled as above proposed.

These are the main features of the scheme, and the minor details could be readily worked out. Some other plan may be better for the prosperity of the college; if so, by all means adopt it.

What would be the result if these suggestions should become effective?

UNIVERSITY. ON THE LEFT, HURON ROAD HOSPITAL.

1. An efficient faculty.

2. A united support from the Alumni; and

3. Insure confidence in the financial management.

PRESENT-DAY REQUIREMENTS FOR A MEDICAL
EDUCATION.

BY DR. CHARLES G. CRUMRINE, DETROIT, MICH.

I deem it a great privilege and a high honor to have the opportunity of addressing you upon a timely subject, one that is not only of interest and importance to you, but of vital interest and importance to suffering humanity, medical students, medical colleges and, above all, to the progress of medical science. Your chairman was very kind in allowing me to select my own subject and I trust that what I am about to say to you upon this great question will be treated seriously and philosophically, and that you will not accept it as a personal thrust, coming from one who might have some ulterior motive.

First, it is a recognized fact, and has been since the days of Aesculapius. that medical schools are a necessity; second, that the march of medical progress is essential; third, that suffering humanity should be scientifically dealt with; fourth, that commercialism and quackery should be eliminated from the practice of medicine. The great question which now confronts us is, what is the proper course of proceedure?

Much progress has been made during the last ten years in eliminating a multitude of inferior private schools, and fake institutions which have been grinding out thousands of students who have entered these schools purely for the purpose of securing a diploma for no other reason than selfish, personal gain. Up to within a few years ago there were hundreds of medical colleges in the United States; today there are but 140 in United States, and seven in Canada. The state of New York has had, at various times, as many as forty-three; today this state has but eleven; Pennsylvania, twenty, today seven; Tennessee nineteen, today nine; Missouri thirty-nine, today ten; Massachusetts fourteen, today four; Maryland, ten, today eight; Kentucky eleven, today three; Illinois thirtynine, today twelve; California ten, today seven; Iowa eleven, today three; Minnesota six, today one; Michigan sixteen, today four; Indiana twenty-seven, today one; Ohio forty-one, today seven recognized medical colleges, all of which you and I know have great reason to improve the standard of their curriculum and the personnel of their faculty. Of this great number, we have today fifteen recognized homeopathic colleges; with these we are better acquainted.

I am sure that, as we become more familiar with the law of Similia Similibus Curantur, just so does our faith become greater in

that law promulgated by Samuel Hahnemann; and it is my belief that the laboratory men, those doing research work in the old school, have done much toward proving that the law of similars is a law of cure.

However true this may be, let us ask ourselves the question how many times in the course of our daily work do we not meet with its limitations, in the application of the principle, and not because of our ignorance of the indicated remedy.

I now wish to speak of my own personal experience, after a little over twenty-four years in active practice, having better ac quainted myself with the law of Contrarar Contraris, the value of mental theraputics, the application of the (so called) osteopathic principle, and some of the other (so called) cults, in all of which I find some virtue. Today I am frank to say that I believe that the law of similars has the greatest scope for good but, as physicians and scientists, are we not defeating the march of medical progress when we narrow our scope in the employment of remedial agents, by classifying ourselves as homeopaths, when we positively know that there are many other valuable principles which, if employed, will greatly aid us in combating disease and reducing the mortality rate?

Now then, if the foregoing be true, and I believe it is, would it not be an opportune time for the Cleveland Pulte Medical college to take the initiative in establishing a modern medical school that will teach their students not only the law of Similia Similibus Curantur, but also acquaint them with the law of Contrarar Contrais, the value of mental theraputics the (so called) osteopathic principle, etc., and the value of all other therapeutic agents which they know to be good, no matter from what field they may come? That greater care may be taken in accepting matriculants, endeavoring to eliminate young men and young women who have not had sufficient training toward the creating of a high potential of mental possibility, accepting only students whose motives they believe to be good.

Do you not believe that when once the wealth and brains of a serious thinking community knew that there was such a school of medicine, there would be little difficulty in securing the necessary moral and financial support toward its maintenance?

If the practice of medicine and surgery is purely a business transaction, then I have no further recommendations to offer, but, if the question is to be treated as a professional one, if the progress

of medical science, and the relief of suffering humanity are to be considered, then I have further recommendations.

Believing that each and every one of you stands ready to remove every obstacle that may be met with in the field of medical progress, I shall venture to suggest what seems to me to be a feasible way to proceed.

We know, particularly those of us who have been in the clinical field as students, and as teachers, that the instruction we received, and the instruction that the medical student of today is receiving, is entirely inadequate and faulty. Altogether too much time is being devoted to teaching the student how to win the confidence of his patients, and the other part is entirely too material and mathematical.

The men who have had a purely mathematical medical education cannot cope successfully with the treatment of pathology, mental or physical. They go out into the field no better prepared than a parrot, but follow your method and my method and, in their efforts. to apply them in all cases, are bound to meet with defeat, because they have not had created in them a high potential of mental possibility, capable of developing a method of their own. They have not had sufficient study in the development of vegetable and the lower animal life; they have not been taught to stand firmly on their feet and do their own thinking, developing resources that will show personality and individuality.

I would rather place my case, though it be a serious one, in the hands of a conscientious man who is a student of natural philosophy, personally acquainted with the application of the spiritual and material agents, than in the hands of the former.

Do you not remember how diffiuclt it was for you in your early experience to diagnose and treat your case as it was prescribed in your text book? We all have a vivid recollection of how terrible complications arose when we studied the simplest case from our notes and our text books, and of how many nights we spent sweating blood, trying to comply with the teachings handed down to us, simply because we knew little of the laws of nature and her methods of resistance.

Is it not a crying shame for the state of Ohio to permit you and me to go out into the field of practice and pose as an allopath, a homeopath, an osteopath, a hydropath, etc., the very name being purely an advertising medium for securing business?

I am not here to propose any definite plan, but would it not be a sane thing for the two great schools of medicine to unite and be