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Laboratory facilities: The school occupies a badly lighted building, containing nothing that can be dignified by the name of equipment. There had been no dissecting thus far (October to the middle of April), anatomy being didactically taught. Persistent inquiry for the "dissecting-room" was, however, finally rewarded by the sight of a dirty, unused, and almost inaccessible room containing a putrid corpse, several of the members of which had been hacked off. There is a large room called the chemical laboratory, its equipment "locked up," the tables spotless. "About ten" oil-immersion microscopes are claimed—also "locked up in the storeroom." There is not even a pretense of anything else. Classes in session were all taking dictation.
Clinical facilities: The top floor is the "hospital:" it contained two lonely patients. Access to a private hospital two miles distant is also claimed.
Recently this school has been declared by the Illinois State Board of Health as "not in good standing." The same action was taken once before, but was afterwards revoked; just why, it is impossible to find out for the school was after the revocation just exactly what it was at the time of its suspension; and it is the same to-day.
Date of visit: April, 1909
(11) College of Medicine and Surgery: Physio-Medical. Organized 1885. An independent school.
Entrance requirement: Such as satisfies the present interpretation of the law. A diligent search in the office desk and safe failed to discover any credentials of students now in the school.
Attendance: 33.
Teaching staff: 42, of whom 33 are professors.
Resources available for maintenance: The school has no resources but fees, amounting to $2935 (estimated).
Laboratory facilities: The equipment is very meager.
Clinical facilities: Clinical facilities amount to little: there were in the hospital last year 167 patients, over one-half surgical; there is an annual attendance of 250 in the dispensary.
Date of visit: April, 1909.
(12) Hering Medical College. Homeopathic. Organized 1892. This school teaches homeopathic doctrine in its original purity.
Entrance requirement: "High school or equivalent."
Attendance: 32.
