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ENGLAND.—NORTH AMERICA.
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them no experts or next to none, there is imminent danger
Qf patronage and favouritism being shown in filling up
appointments, the more so that this is not, as in Germany
and Austria, based upon distinguished scientific services
rendered by the candidates or, as in other lands, the result
of competition.
The salaries of the teachers are derived from revenue
brought in by the fees charged at the medical school: only
in special cases, where this, on account of the small number
•of students, is too little, or when it is considered worth
while to secure a celebrated teacher, do the Governors
make an extraordinary vote for this purpose. The tuition
fees are consequently pretty high. Thus at St. Bartho­
lomew's 9 guineas are demanded for a course of physio-
^°gy>Pj guineas for materia medica, 4 guineas for botany
or forensic medicine; at St. Thomas' Hospital 4 guineas
are paid for a three months' course of dissecting: but it is
exceptional for a student to take out a card in only one
subject. As a rule he joins all the lectures and demonstra­
tions in the order laid down in the curriculum of the school
he is attending and pays a composition-fee smaller or
greater according to whether it is paid at once or by
instalments, but which is approximately within the limits of
£95 and £13° for the whole period of studentship. Special
charges are often made in addition for the use of instruments,
for "parts ; ' for dissection, etc.
The extent to which the different schools are provided with
conveniences for teaching is by no means uniform. Many
have lofty and well-ventilated lecture-theatres, convenient
dissecting-rooms, well-arranged physiological and chemical
laboratories, natural history collections, anatomical and
pathological museums, libraries, and all kinds of con­
veniences for clinical teaching. Others are but poorly
provided, and have less to offer in this respect than the
smallest medical faculty in Germany. As a general rule,
the departments for preparatory and preliminary studies
are less complete than those which are more immediately