940 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



SEC. 3. That the interest on the said sum of $1,000,000 shall Ix annually paid for 

 salaries of the professors and for the expenses of such university, including the 

 expense of experiments in all methods of treating disease, in testing and proving the 

 effects of remedial agents of every kind, and for such hospitals as may be necessary 

 for the purposes of such institution; the said expenses to be determined from time 

 to time by the President of the United States and the trustees of such university. 



SEC. 4. That the professors' chairs in said university shall be open to all schools of 

 medicine and all methods of treatment and cure of disease. 



SEC. 5. That the allopathic, homeopathic, and eclectic schools of medicine shall all 

 be represented in the professors' chairs of said university, and free and impartial 

 opportunity afforded for the scientific and practical proof of the value of each of such 

 schools of medicine, and of their methods and processes, and for the proof of any 

 and all new discoveries of remedial agents and methods of treatment, the end and 

 purpose of the establishment of this university being to stimulate researches into all 

 methods for the cure of disease, and to furnish scientific and practical evidence of 

 the effects of all remedial agents, and to apply the severest processes of reason and 

 experiment to all alleged discoveries and remedial agencies for the cure of disease 

 and the relief of mankind from suffering and for the improvement of the public 

 health. 



SEC. 6. That the board of trustees shall decide what professorship shall be estab- 

 lished; and whenever any system or method of cure of disease shall obtain any con- 

 siderable hold on the public mind it shall be the duty of the said board of trustees 

 to allow the professors of such system to appear at this university and submit the same 

 to scientific examination and practical experiment and proof; and the expense of the 

 same shall be paid out of the interest of the sum hereinbefore appropriated for the 

 annual expenses of the university. 



SEC. 7. That suitable hospitals for tha treatment of diseases according to the 

 methods of all systems, and for experiment with all remedial agents, shall be estab- 

 lished and a careful and accurate record kept of all medicines administered, and the 

 effect of the same, and an accurate and correct and minute statement made of the 

 condition of the subject of the treatment, and of his disease and symptoms, and if 

 the treatment or experiment is upon a person in good health, of his condition in this 

 respect, to the end that facts may be gathered in such numbers as to afford a sound 

 basis for reasonable conclusions in reference to all systems and remedial agencies, 

 both those now known and such as may hereafter be discovered. 



(No action.) 



ETHNOLOGY REPORTS. 

 January 24, 1884 Senate. 



Mr. JOHN A. LOGAN introduced a joint resolution (S. 47) for print- 

 ing the fourth and fifth annual reports of the Bureau of Ethnology. 



Referred to Committee on Printing. 

 January 29, 1884 House. 



Mr. O. R. SINGLETON introduced joint resolution (H. 137) for print- 

 ing the fourth and fifth annual reports of the Bureau of Ethnology. 



Referred to Committee on Printing. 

 March 21, 1884 House. 



Mr. W. F. ROGERS, from Committee on Printing reported: 



The committee find upon investigation that the number -provided in said resolu- 

 tion is the number printed annually since the organization of the Bureau. These 

 annual reports embrace the aggregate results in a popular form of the progress and 

 researches of the Bureau, and are designated for general distribution to schools, 

 libraries, and collaborators of the Bureau. 



