not consider in good standing after January 1, 1900, any medical institution which does not require of all students (except graduates of reputable colleges of arts and sciences, or of reputable colleges of dentistry, pharmacy or veterinary medicine, to whom one year's advanced standing may be granted, as a condition of graduation, an attendance on four full courses of lectures of at least six months each, in four separate years, no two courses commencing or ending in the same calendar year of time.

Resolved, That no medical college issuing a catalogue or announcement in which are contained misrepresentations respecting its teaching, clinical or hospital facilities, its faculty, or its courses of study, or false representations as to the number of students matriculated or in attendance, will be regarded as in good standing.

In effect up to and including session 1902-3.

SCHEDULE OF MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR MEDICAL COLLEGES TO BE DETERMINED IN "GOOD STANDING."

Adopted by the Illinois State Board of Health, July 8, 1902. In force January 1, 1903.

CONDITIONS OF ADMISSION TO LECTURE COURSES.

1. Creditable certificates of good moral character, signed by two physicians of good standing in the state in which the applicant last resided.

2. As evidence of preliminary education, as a minimum requirement, a diploma or certificate of graduation from a high school; or a certificate signed by a principal of a regularly organized high school or by the examiner of the faculty of a recognized literary or scientific college or university, or by the state superintendent of public instruction, or a superintendent of public schools, of having successfuly passed an examination in all the several branches embraced in the curriculum of a four years' high school course. The matriculation examination shall not be conducted by any member of the faculty of the medical college.

The Illinois State Board of Health will require each applicant for a state certificate to present documentary evidence of his preliminary education, together with his medical diploma, when taking the examination of the board.

The conditions above set forth will govern in the case of all persons admitted to the freshman year of a medical college in "good standing," on or after January 1, 1903.

ADVANCED STANDING.

Applicants holding the degree of A.B. or B.S. or an equivalent degree from a regularly established college of arts or science, which requires an attendance of three or more years as an essential to graduation, may be given credit for work done in the branches of the medical curriculum of the first

year, and may be advanced to the sophomore year of a four years' medical course, on condition that they comply with the entrance requirements of this board and that they subsequently complete the work of the freshman year if not already completed, and that the work already taken shall not be below the standard required by this board.

The same advanced standing may be allowed on the same conditions to applicants presenting a degree from a recognized college of dentistry or college of veterinary medicine, or documentary evidence of having completed in a reputable university or college of arts or science, the major part of the work usually embraced in the curriculum of the freshman course of a recognized medical school.

No such advanced standing shall be allowed until after the applicant shall have either graduated as indicated or performed the work specified above, and not until three months after the completion of said work.

The above requirements for advanced standing will govern in the case of all persons admitted to the sophomore year of a medical college on or after January 1, 1903, and may be made operative prior to that time.

Graduates of medical colleges recognized at any time by the Illinois State Board of Health may be admitted to any class without examination. Students of said colleges who possess certificates of attendance and of successful examinations, can enter without examination the term immediately following that previously attended. The student shall be required to pass an exaination in all branches in which he has been found deficient. Students who have attended one or more full terms in colleges not fully recognized by this board may be granted advanced standing in accordance with such attendance, on complying with the entrance requirements set forth in the conditions of admission to lecture courses, and passing all examinations and performing all laboratory work of the classes below that which they enter, providng that the work already done conforms to the requirements of this board.

Graduates or students of colleges to which no recognition is given by the Illinois State Board of Health can be granted no advanced standing whatever.

LENGTH, NUMBER AND CHARACTER OF COURSES OF LECTURES. The college shall have a four years' course of instruction consisting of four terms, extending over a period of four calendar years, and the minimum time between the commencement of the work of the freshman year and the ending of the work of the senior year, on which all students are required to be in attendance, shall not be less than forty months. No two terms begun on or after January 1, 1903, shall commence and end within any consecutive sixteen months.

The time occupied in each regular term begun on or after January 1, 1903, shall be not less than seven months or thirty weeks, and each such term shall consist of not less than 800 hours of work.

The branches of medicine to be included in the course of instruction shall be at least as follows: (1) Anatomy, (2) physiology, (3) chemistry, (4) materia medica and therapeutics, (5) theory and practice of medicine, including ophthalmology, otology, dermatology and neurology, (6) pathology and bacteriology, (7) surgery, including orthopedic surgery, (8) obstetrics, (9) gynecology, (10) hygiene, (11) medical jurisprudence (forensic medicine).

ATTENDANCE.

1. Regular attendance during the entire lecture courses shall be required, allowance being made only for absences occasioned by the sickness of the student or his immediate family, such absence not to exceed 20 per centum of the

course.

1.

DISSECTIONS, CLINICS AND HOSPITAL ATTENDANCE.

Each student must have dissected at least the lateral half of a human cadaver.

2. He shall have received clinical and hospital instruction throughout at least two annual terms.

INSTRUCTION.

The college must have a sufficient and competent corps of instructors, and facilities for teaching, dissections, ambulatory and hospital clinics such as obtain in the majority of medical colleges in the United States.

GRADUATION.

No student shall be graduated by any medical college in "good standing" with the Illinois State Board of Health who has not completed four full terms of lectures as prescribed by the rules of the said board (certain persons to whom advanced standing is allowed excepted) and has complied with the requirements of the said college, as set forth in the published announcement of the college, and has completed in the college by which his diploma is granted, a continuous course of lectures in the senior year of at least seven months in duration.

FURTHER CONDITIONS OF RECOGNITION OF MEDICAL COLLEGES.

Rule 1. Only regularly conducted and legally chartered medical colleges which conform to the conditions of admission to lecture courses, the course and period of study, the number, character and length of lecture terms, the duration of attendance on hospital and clinical instruction, as set forth in the schedule of minimum requirements adopted by the Illinois State Board of Health, and the other requirements

of a medical education which obtain as the practice of a majority of the established medical colleges in the United States, shall be considered medical institutions in "good standing" according to the purpose of the Act to Regulate the Practice of Medicine in the State of Illinois, approved April 24, 1899.

Rule 2. No medical college can be held to be in "good standing" until it has established its claim to such standing by an active existence of not less than four years, and then only on compliance with the terms of Rule 1. Provided, that colleges which, after a personal investigation made by a committee of the Illinois State Board of Health, are shown to comply with the schedule of minimum requirements and to possess a sufficient and competent corps of instructors and the necessary facilities for teaching, may, at the discretion of the board, be granted full recognition during the first year of existence.

Rule 3. All medical colleges in "good standing" with the Illinois State Board of Health will be required to publish in their annual announcements or catalogue a complete list of all matriculates and a separate list of all graduates of the session or year immediately preceding.

Rule 4. No medical college will be considered in "good standing" with the Illinois State Board of Health which publishes in its annual announcement or catalogue, or otherwise, any misrepresentation regarding the curriculum of the college or the facilities for instruction, or the number of students matriculated or graduated.

NOTE.

All colleges in "good standing" with the Illinois State Board of Health will be required to conform to the schedule of minimum requirements in all regular courses commencing on or after January 1, 1903.

Advanced standing to the sophomore, junior or senior years may be granted to students who have completed courses in the freshman, sophomore, or junior years, prior to June 30, 1903, in accordance with the schedules of minimum requirements heretofore adopted by the Illinois State Board of Health.

All rules and regulations governing medical colleges which have been heretofore adopted by the Illinois State Board of Health will stand repealed on December 31, 1902.

Published by order of the board.

GEO. W. WEBSTER, M.D., President.
JAMES A. EGAN, M.D., Secretary.

In effect after session 1902-3.

Every applicant will be required to present to the secretary of the board, on or before the date of examination, a photograph of himself or herself, taken recently, which shall be filed with the application. On the reverse of this photograph the ap

plicant must have written his or her name in the presence of a notary public or other official authorized to administer oaths, who shall have certified under the said signature that the person whose name appears above is known to him to be the person shown in the said photograph and that the signature was written in his presence. The seal of the officer administering the oaths must appear upon the photograph. No applicant will be admitted to examination who has not complied with this rule in every respect.

The board recognizes certificates issued by other boards having practically equal requirements, which will recognize certificates issued by the Illinois board. Reciprocity has been formally established between the State Board of Health of Illinois, those of several other states, including the Indiana Board of Medical Registration and Examination, the Board of Registration of Maine, the Michigan State Board of Registration in Medicine, and others. This is in effect, however, only in the case of certificates issued after examination to graduates of medical colleges in good standing with the Illinois State Board of Health. Such certificates must have been issued at least one year prior to the date of application to the Illinois State Board of Health.

The board meets for examination in Chicago in January, April, June, July and October, and in East St. Louis in May of each year. Secretary of the State Board of Health, Dr. J. A. Egan, Springfield.

INDIAN TERRITORY.

The regulations as to medical practice vary according to local laws in the different tribal organizations and are binding on their members. Those not members of the different tribes or Indian nations can reside there only on sufferance.

INDIANA.

The governor has the appointment of the state board of medical registration and examination of five members which must not include any professor or teacher in a medical college, and "each of the four schools or systems of medicine having the largest numerical representation in the state shall have at least one representative on said board."

Examination is required of all applicants for license to practice medicine in Indiana except students matriculating in reputable medical colleges in that state prior to January, 1901, and graduating and making application prior to Jan. 1, 1905. The board is required to make and record from time to time a schedule of the minimum requirements which must be complied with by applicants for examination for license to practice, before they shall be entitled to receive