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ability of our medical colleges, and declaring the diplomas granted by them worthless and to be treated as so much waste paper?

The several States have chartered medical colleges in their respective States, and granted them full power to receive students and graduate them, or confer the degree of Doctor of Medicine, which diploma should be good all over the world. The requirements of these colleges for receiving students and conferring the degree of Doctor of Medicine, etc., should be the same in every State of the Union, and should be marked out by the American Medical Association, and all colleges required to fully carry out the rules and requirements, and see them faithfully enforced as follows: The American Medical Association directions to be strictly observed by the medical colleges of the several States. To regulate the study of medicine and surgery, and defining the duties of students, preceptors and the medical colleges. Be it resolved, by the American Medical Association at its annual meeting held at- -on -day of month, A. D., and it is hereby declared by the authority of the same, that from and after the first day of month, the medical colleges of the United States of America shall require all students of medicine and surgery to present to the Dean of the college he or she proposes to attend, a sworn statement that he or she commenced the study of medicine and surgery in the office of, M.D., practicing physician and surgeon, on the day of

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and studied two years in his office and under his directions and instructions. Also the student to present an affidavit of his preceptor : -M.D., practicing physician and surgeon of

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the- County of State of, having made a full and thorough examination of of- of, and State of―, whose name is written in his own proper handwriting on the margin of this certificate, do hereby certify that he was found well qualified in respect to moral character, learning and ability to be admitted as a student of medicine and surgery, and onday of, A.D., he was duly received in my office as a student of medicine and surgery, and continued under my instruction and inspection for the term of two years to the day of -A.D.——, and during that time has proved himself in every way worthy.

Signed,M.D.,

Practicing Physician and Surgeon. Sworn and subscribed before me this--day -A.D.

In the country it is well known that a young man working in the woods or acting as clerk, at the time of the opening of a course in a medical college, leaves for college and returns at its close, begins the work he was engaged in before, and finally returns an M.D. He is recorded as a student of Dr.--, whom, as is frequently the case, the doctor never knew.

Students should be required to read the medical authorities under the inspection and direc

tion of their preceptors, and thus be able to understand and know what our professors are talking about. Shall we allow our medical colleges to be treated as frauds and humbugs? All of which is respectfully submitted.

SOME CLINICAL EXPERIENCES WITH

EUCALYPTOL.

I. N. BRAINERD, M.D.,

OF ALMA, MICH.

During the last ten years I have often prescribed eucalyptol in bronchial and pulmonary troubles. From this experience I have learned to put a high therapeutic value upon it in some respiratory affections, viz.: chronic bronchitis, persistent cough, chronic interstitial pneumonia, and to a less degree in tuberculosis.

The following list of cases taken from my later experience, furnishes a reasonable amount of proof of its utility:

Case 1.-Miss Bellard, aged 19. This lady called upon me in August, 1888. She complained of malaise, and some pain in the left lung. She had only a moderate cough and a limited expectoration. The temperature was 99o. Auscultation revealed a harsh and catchy respiration in the upper lobe of the left lung. A trifling dulness on percussion could be discovered in this region. I gave the girl eucalyptol, and had her visit my office every fortnight for half a year. She so far improved as to lend expectation of her recovery. Then, school beginning, she started to school. As cold weather came

on, she was chilled one day in school, and developed a severe croupous pneumonia. For this she was treated by a physician in her town, but not recovering, I was called to see her. Resolution did not take place as it should, and I advised the mother that the girl would never recover from this sickness. After a few weeks she died. I believe that except for this intercurrent pneumonia, this girl would have continued to progress to a recovery from the phthisis. For a whole year she improved until she felt nearly as well and strong as ever. Then she sickened with pneumonia and died in two months.

Case 2.-Mrs. Thompson, aged 30. This lady called upon me in September, 1889. She was emaciated to a skeleton, had hectic fever, pulse about 90, cough with some expectoration, and tenderness on percussion over both lungs. The respiration was catchy and frequent. She had almost a loathing for food and scarcely strength enough to come to my office. She had been ill for many months. I put her upon eucalyptol and cod-liver oil. She rapidly improved in all respects, and ceased to visit me after about two months. I had her under observa

tion until all the objective symptoms, including the catchy respiration, ceased. I see her occasionally. She says my prescription has made a new creature of her. She is in her usual flesh and is doing her own work.

Case 3.-Mrs. Morton, aged 26, called upon me in September, 1889. She had a miscarriage in the spring. Upon rising from this sickness she took cold and developed a cough and soreness through the lung, from which she did not recover all summer. Neither did her menses reappear. She is from a consumptive family. These things alarmed her somewhat, and she applied to me for aid. Her respirations were harsh and catchy, and her cough was quite troublesome. I gave her a prescription containing eucalyptol, and have had her under observation ever since. Her respiratory murmur is all right and she has menstruated once or twice since, and now seems to

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