Remarks upon medical organization and reform (foreign and English) / by Edwin Lee ; with an appendix.

  • Edwin Lee
Date:
1846
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    the Academy cannot assume the title of Doctor, and are very similar to the French officiers de sante, and the physician- surgeons of Prussia. They are only allowed to practise in localities where there is no doctor, and are under the surveil¬ lance of a physician-inspector, to whom they have to transmit every three months tables stating the names of their patients, the number of diseases, of the cured, deceased, and uncured, and any particular observations which they may have to make. A pupil of the Academy, before being admitted, is re¬ quired to be at least sixteen years old, to be able to read and write correctly, and to construe a Latin author. The period of study is three years for surgeons and four for physicians. These studies are essentially practical,—(viz. special patho¬ logy and medical therapeutics, general pathology, surgery and clinical surgery, bandages and surgical instruments, accouche- ments and obstetrical ciinique, experimental physics, prelimi¬ nary sciences, zoology and mineralogy, and the veterinary art.) After the second year students are allowed to attend the clinical institution, which contains eighty beds (forty medical, and forty surgical cases.) Every student must have taken detailed notes of a certain number of cases. The exa¬ mination at the termination of the course of studies consists in a written and a viva voce trial upon all the subjects of prac¬ tical medicine and surgery. The number of students of the Academy is eighty. The University of Leipsic has more than once petitioned the government for the suppression of the Dresden Academy. There is no state examination in Saxony. Graduated phy¬ sicians of the faculty of Leipzic have the right to practise throughout the kingdom. A strict distinction is still kept up between surgeons and physicians, and a royal ordonnance of 1824 even contains an article to the effect ‘‘ that every physi¬ cian who suffers a surgeon to practise in inward diseases shall be liable, according to circumstances, to a fine of from twenty to fifty dollars, to imprisonment, or even to temporary suspen-