Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1878 — Too Many Doctors. [ARTICLE]

Too Many Doctors.

(For Tub Ukion.] The February number of the American Practitioner, of Louisville, gives sonic interesting satisfies from an address by Prof. Pepper, of Philadelphia. His subject was. Is higher medical education the true interest of ;be public and profession? He maintained the affirmative, and argued TlmX there" afTfoo many doctors. JI.- says thege is one rnedical college in the United Stai<-s to 477,.".; 2 of population; in Erigland nri 'to 7,705,89-5; in France one to 6,000,000. The average number of doctors in the Fnited Slates and territories is one to •518 nibabitnuts;, tn England one to 1,612;. in France qne»u> 1,814: in Germany one to ’JhJO. New Mexico would he the l>e~t place for a doctor to find X toeatiun. since it, contains only one physician tn 8,402 people. Nevada has cue to 381), being the poorest of any. Indiana is not wanting, as it has one to every 465. It will l>e reinserted by a large influx front Illinois since 4 h-e vte «■ 4a w of that state requires every practitioner to have practiced ten years, to possess a diploma from a respectable medical college, to stand an examination before llie state buatd, or quit the practice. Indian* contains four or five medical colleges.