History of medical practice in Illinois - Bushnell Historical Society

in the fees.Medical Education in Illinois 417The original fees of $65 were cut down to §35; the dissectingticket was 55 and the tickets of matriculation and for clinical work in thehospital were free.This reduction was allowed to enable men "who willpractice medicine to properly qualify themselves . . . and to get rid of themany evils attached to the system of credits which has been too long practicedby the medical schools of the Northwest." In 1851, a hospital ticketof $5 was added to the list of fees, but the following year (1852) the generaltickets were reduced to $25 but "must be paid invariably in advance by allexcept diose who have previously attended two full courses in this institution."The United States Marine Hospital on the east side of Michigan Avenuenear River Street, was in the summer of 1850 approaching completion."The Illinois General Hospital of the Lakes" had been chartered by theLegislature in an extra session that had just been held. The hospital hadbeen organized and included a lying-in department, from which much washoped by way of instruction, and the usual college "clinique" in both medicineand surgery was to go on in this institution.Now for the first time, the work of each department in the college wasoutlined in the announcement. Under obstetrics and diseases of womenand children it was noted that the "new doctrine of menstruation andovulation would be discussed." Dr. N. S. Davis was to lecture daily throughoutthe term and also meet the hospital class in the wards of the hospital"at a stated hour each day, Sunday always excepted." The conditions ofgraduation were made to include a hospital attendance of at least oneterm. Dr. W. B. Herrick had charge of the United States Marine Hospital,and the next year the Hospital of the Lakes passed under the care of theSisters of Mercy of the Catholic Church, to be called thereafter MercyHospital.The year 1857 witnessed several important changes in the faculty. Dr.John Evans retired from practice for other pursuits that brought him fortuneand fame. Dr. W. B. Herrick ceased lecturing on account of ill healthand was made an Emeritus Professor. Dr. William H. Byford, previouslyof Evansville, Indiana, became Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases ofWomen, and Dr. H. A. Johnson was transferred to the Chair of Physiologyand Pathology. Dr. John H. Rauch came from Burlington, Iowa, to beProfessor of Materia Medica and Medical Jurisprudence.The spring course of instruction, which had for some years been dormant,was taken up in earnest in 1859 and a session was announced for the springand early summer, the instruction to be given by Drs. Brainard, Davis,Freer, Byford and Rauch.The year 1859 witnessed several important changes in the faculty. Adisagreement existed between the President (Brainard) and the Secretary