in general, good. This is particularly true of anatomy, which is admirably cared for. The departments of pathology and physiology lack a sufficient number of skilled assistants. An excellent museum and books are at hand.
Clinical facilities: The university hospital is, as it now stands, too small; the amount of material available in medicine, obstetrics, and contagious diseases has been very limited. An appropriation of $75,000 has, however, been made for the purpose of increasing the hospital capacity. The methods of clinical teaching hitherto pursued have not been entirely modern, mainly for lack of proper organization and material. Supplementary clinical material is obtainable at the Sisters' Hospital and the Tuberculosis Sanitarium.
The dispensary is just in process of development. The dispensary clinic is so far largely limited to the eye, ear, nose, and throat.
Date of visit: November, 1909.
(4) State University of Iowa College of Homeopathic Medicine. Organized 1877. An organic department of the state university.
Entrance requirement: A four-year high school education.
Attendance: 42, 83 per cent from Iowa.
Teaching staff: 10 professors and 15 of other grade. The professor of materia medica and therapeutics, who is likewise dean of the department, resides at Des Moines, the professor of theory and practice at Davenport.
Resources available for maintenance: The department is supported by state appropriations. Its income from fees is $1864, its budget is $5453, its hospital budget is $7847. The school budget does not include expense incurred for laboratory instruction for a reason that the next paragraph will explain.
Laboratory facilities: Homeopathic students receive their laboratory instruction together with regular students of medicine, though there is now a difference of one year of college work and there will be next year a difference of two such years in their preparation, unless a resolution adopted by the board of education establishing the same basis of admission in the two departments becomes effective before that time.
Clinical facilities: The department possesses a hospital of 35 beds, quite inadequate to its purpose. The dispensary is correspondingly slender. Operating during part of last year, it received only 134 cases, of which 101 were diseases of the eye, ear, nose, and throat.
Date of visit: April, 1909.
General Considerations
Iowa is a state in which there are now between two and three times as many doctors as are really needed. The population of the state is increasing slowly, if at all. There
