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Title: History of the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania : the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Bradford, Thomas Lindsley, 1847-1918
Subjects: Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia Medical education Education, Medical Homeopathy Hospitals Schools, Medical
Publisher: Philadelphia : Boericke & Tafel
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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paratory relation to the professional training of thesetwo vocations; but of what essential use are they to the stu-dent of medicine? He, on the other hand, needs a prepara-tion in the philosophj^ of induction and deduction as theyapply to investigation of the materials and forces of nature.He must include mensuration in his mathematics; he requires-preparatory studies in General Physics, in which he should bea proficient, in General (not Medical) Chemistry, in GeneralBiology, Botany and Zoology, though it is not necessary thathe should be an expert in any of these three. Moreover, therecent developments in public H ygiene are demanding element-ary studies in Geology and Climatology. Add to this list ageneral outline of the whole of human Anatomy and of humariPhysiology and we shall find therein the preparatory educa-tion of the student of medicine. How and where can weobtain such an education ? Even the so-called preparatorymedical courses in our prominent universities do not measure
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MEDICAL COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA. 291 Up to this standard. They usually embrace L,atin with eitherGreek, or German, or French, together with extended didac-tic and laboratory courses in Biology and Chemistry, and the <?are about all. In certain branches more time is employed thanis necessar)^, while other departments almost equally impor-tant are omitted entirely. If, on the other hand, the studentshould take the Scientific Course in a good literary col-lege, he will require to give a large part of his time to thestudy of I^atin and Greek literature and to other branches forwhich he will find no more need than does the ordinaryscholar in any other walk in life. We here see some of thedifficulties which confront the American student of medicine.He may either enter a medical college imperfectly equippedfor his technical studies, or he may submit to spend three orperhaps four years in acquiring the preparatory educationwhich under more favorable conditions he might obtain inone or two.

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