gical,—which can be of little use. It was claimed, top, that "medicine and surgery are taught in the school," and color is lent to the statement by the presence on the faculty of physicians teaching materia medica, etc.
Date of visit: December, 1909.
(15) The Postgraduate Medical School and Hospital. A stock company.
Teaching staff: 98.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees.
Laboratory facilities: A good working clinical laboratory.
Clinical facilities: The school offers clinical instruction in its own hospital, containing a small number of beds, and in other Chicago institutions. The instruction is attended by physicians for periods varying from a few weeks to a year.
Date of visit: April, 1909.
(16) Chicago Polyclinic. A postgraduate institution organized as a stock company. Offers special courses to graduated physicians.
Attendance: Perhaps 30 at any given time; a total of 350 in the course of a year.
Teaching staff: 92, 30 being professors, 62 of other grade.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees.
Laboratory facilities: A small clinical laboratory, the instruction in technique being given by a first-year student in one of the night schools; in the absence of the instructor, he also conducts classes.
Clinical facilities: The main reliance is the Polyclinic Hospital of 80 beds, two-thirds of them surgical.
Date of visit: December, 1909.
(17) Chicago Ear, Eye, Nose, and Throat College. A stock company offering courses in certain specialties.
Attendance: 20 on average; average period of residence, two months; a few remain six to twelve months.
Teaching staff: 22.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees.
Facilities: A fairly equipped dispensary with a daily attendance of 15 to 20 new patients; a hospital with 10 ward beds, empty at time of visit, "but full a week ago." The work is all immediately practical; there are no facilities for fundamental or intensive instruction or effort.
Date of visit: December, 1909.
