Need of Higher , Graded Medical Schools. 
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A radical change can be brought about at once by two legis¬ 
lative enactments: 
1st: To establish a medical department in connection with 
the university of Wisconsin. 
2d: To appoint a state board of medical examiners com¬ 
posed of members of the state medical faculty. 
The formation of a medical faculty in connection with the 
state university is warranted: 
1st: By history—professional schools come under the do¬ 
main of state supervision. 
2nd: By the tendency to raise the standard of the medical 
profession. 
3d: By a demand for medical schools promoting higher med¬ 
ical learning. 
It is true that the development of institutions of learning 
goes hand in hand with the cultivation of the people, but the 
professional schools of this country have been slow in develop¬ 
ment because they have lacked either state support or necessary 
endowments. In the old countries, to which men of the differ¬ 
ent professions of the new world migrate for the sake of higher 
learning, the universities are under full control and support of 
the government. The arts and their many branches, the sciences, 
as well as philosophy, theology, law and medicine, are fostered 
by the state, and the universities are dependent on the endow¬ 
ments of the state. 
The University of Wisconsin possesses well equipped labora¬ 
tories for the study of the natural sciences. A pre-medical 
course already exists. Now with the addition of two chairs of 
the medical faculty, anatomy and physiology, students of medi¬ 
cine can acquire an excellent scientific foundation and will be 
as well prepared to enter upon clinic work as they could in any 
existing school of medicine. 
The first two years of the German medical student’s work are 
occupied with the study of the natural sciences, physics, chem¬ 
istry, botany and zoology, and with anatomy, histology and 
physiology. An examination — tentamen physicum — passes the 
student to a three years course of clinic and laboratory work of 
the many branches of medical teaching. 
