from tuitions and a considerable sum from "treatments" (see below). As the instruction provided is inexpensive, the stock must be a very profitable investment.
Laboratory facilities: The school occupies a five-story building containing a chemical laboratory, with meager equipment and limited desk space, and a single laboratory for histology, pathology, and bacteriology. The dissecting-room contains five tables, but sufficient material. The rest of the building is mainly devoted to treatment rooms and the business office.
Clinical facilities: There is no free dispensary. Patients who are willing to undergo treatment before a class pay not less than $3 a month; patients who are treated in the presence of a single student pay $5. A hospital is now under construction.
The general aspect is that of a thriving business. An abundance of advertising matter, in which the profits of osteopathy are prominently set forth,[1] is distributed.
Date of visit: May, 1909.
(5) Pacific College of Osteopathy. A stock company, established in 1896.
Entrance requirement: Ostensibly high school graduation; but "mature men and women who have been in business are given a chance and usually make good."
Attendance: 85.
Teaching staff: 38, 19 being professors.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $12,750 (estimated).
Laboratory facilities: The school has an ordinary chemical laboratory, a fairly equipped laboratory for pathology, histology, and bacteriology, with a private laboratory for the instructor in these branches adjoining, the usual dissecting room, and a limited amount of apparatus for experimental work in physiology.
Clinical facilities: A dispensary is carried on at the school, which also owns a hospital for obstetrical and surgical cases. The catalogue fails, however, to state that the students have no regular work in this hospital. They rarely see medical cases; "they don't have as much acute work as they should." Nevertheless, they are drilled to "treat gonorrhea by diet and antiseptics; syphilis with ointments and dietetics, and without mercury; typhoid, pneumonia, etc.," along the same lines.
Date of visit: May, 1909.
OAKLAND: Population, 73,812.
(6) College of Medicine and Surgery. Established 1902 as a stock company, stock, partly subscribed by merchants of the town.
- ↑ "People are ready to pay for relief from distress and sickness. It is only fair to say that many of our graduates are earning as much in single months as they were formerly able to earn by a full year's work." (Catalogue, p. 9.)
