Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1878 — Facts of Great Interest to All-Time and Money Saved. [ARTICLE]

Facts of Great Interest to All-Time and Money Saved.

All families are interested in their family physicians. They may take quack medicines for slight ailments, bat when true sickness comes then most come the family doctor. All are interested then in this matter, and every family newspaper should give them valuable information and advice. Every one knows that, in times gone by, the great family doctors were educated in New York and Philadelphia, bnt that in these days such is no longer the case. The great cities of the West, Louisville, Chicago, Cincinnati, all contain medical colleges in which the very best ednc&tion is to be obtained. The cost of this education is far less than it is in Eastern cities; a fact of great interest to parents and guardians, and to all interested in medical students. Indeed, so important is this money question to our readers, that we must give them information which will save for themselves and their friends both time and money. In the Atlantic cities a student has to pay for two courses of lectures $155 each; or $3lO for the two. His diploma fee is S3O; all fees amounting to $340. His board for two sessions is S2BO, or $l4O for each. His fees and board costing $620. These facts and figures are official. * In Louisville, Chicago, etc., where the medical colleges are equally as good as they are in New York, the student pays for his two courses $65 each, or $l3O for the two. His diploma fee costs S3O. All fees amounting to $l6O for the two sossions. His board for two sessions costs $l6O, or SBO for each. The entire fees and board costing $320. These figures are also official, and show that the student who goes to the great colleges of the West saves fully S3OO in the cost of a firstrclass medical education. If to this amount be added that of the increased cost of travel, it is evident that SIOO would be a moderate estimate of the amount saved by him. Indeed, students residing in the New England and Atlantio States can, by going to first-class medical colleges in the West, save from S2OO to S3OO in the cost of a medical education. Surely these great money facts cannot fail to interest every reader, and cause him to bring them to the attention of all studying or about to study medicine. Parents and preceptors will, we feel sure, thank us for this valuable information. But these are other facts now to be given of even greater interest; facts which show that a student can not only save S3OO in the cost of his medical education, but that he can gain one full additional course of lectures. That is to say, the student will, in seventeen months, obtain three instead of two courses of lectures, and save also S3OO. Among the many new catalogues of medical colleges recently issued, that of the Louisville Medical College (Louisville, Ky.) is exceedingly interesting. Indeed, the facts presented therein are so important that we must present them to our readers. It appears that the Faculty of the Louisville Medical College have been also elected to fill the vacant chairs in the Kentucky School cf Medicine—one of the oldest and best medical colleges in this country, this great compliment having been extended to this Faculty on account of the triumphant success of the Louisville Medical College. As the result, this Faculty teach in the Louisville Medical College from September to March, and in the Kentucky School of Medicine from March to July. Both of these colleges are first-class institutions, both being connected, we see, with the Association of American Medical Colleges, of which the colleges at New York and Philadelphia are also members. From the fact of this faculty teaching in these two great medical colleges, there spring some curious and interesting results. Students who enter the Louisville Medical in September or October can, at the close of that session in February, at once enter the Kentucky School of Medicine, which commences its session in March and closes at the end of June. In the following September or October these students can again enter the Louisville Medical College and graduate in February. Thus having, in seventeen months, passed three complete courses of lectures: whereas,in seventeen months, any other faculty can give but two courses of lectures. The student’s entire fees for the three courses in these two Louisville colleges are, we see, but $lB7, and his board for seventeen months but S2OO, or $367 for the entire cost of his medical education, board and all fees included. When it is remembered that in Eastern colleges the student gets but two courses of lectures, and has to pay for these $340, with S2BO for his board ($620 in all), it will be seen that in Louisville he gets one full course of lectures more in the same time, and saves in fee 3 aud travel fully S3OO. A great economy of time, A GREAT SAVING OF MONEY, AND THE GAINING OF one entire ooubse of lectuhes. Indeed, it is evident from the facts and figures afforded to the public in these catalogues, that in no other way, in no other city, and in no other MEDICAL COLLEGES, CAN A STUDENT IN SEVENTEEN MONTHS OBTAIN THREE FULL COURSES OF LECTURES AND YET SAVE IN MONEY FULLY S3OO. Every student or guardian or parent who reads these remarkable facts should send at once for catalogues. It is stated in the catalogues just issued that all applications for them should be addressed simply to the Dean of the Louisville Medioal College, Louisville, Ky.

We see that five per cent, of the class are granted beneficiary privileges. Wo also see in the catalogues issued that students who desire it will be educated by the graded system adopted at Harvard, Mass. One is not surprised to read, after learning these remarkable advantages offered by this Faculty, that ninety-five students have been graduated by it in the last year. The class list as published shows students from almost every State, the best evidence of the fact that the public throughout this country is rapidly obtaining and appreciating the valuable information Viata givftn fn nnr raiu^Afct It seems only natural that so many students from the Northern States should seek in winter the mild and temperate climate of Kentucky; for thus they escape their harsh winter weather, and return home in time for the cool Northern summer. Louisville, the geographical center of this country, bids fair to be one of its greatest medical centers. While newspapers seldom furnish the information which we have herein given, we are satisfied that our readers will value these interesting and profitable facts, and will agree with us in saying that all which is of interest to the family circle belongs of right to the family newspaper.