MEDICAL EDUCATION AT DISPENSARIES. The class
of students attached to the Umballa
reassembled for winter work
on
Dispensary
the 1st October with
an
open-
ing lecture by Dr. Bateson, the Civil Surgeon. Dr. Gray, Inspector-General of Prisons, was present. This is the seventh season this class has been in operation. The students are sons of respectable people of the district, who are subsidized by monthly sums drawn from local funds. There are two hakeems in the class; and one hakeem of the city, after studying for two years, has become superintendent of vaccination for the district. One of the old students is now engaged in private practice. "When sickness breaks out in a neighbouring village one of the advanced students proceeds there with suitable medicines, and one. or
more
attend at the district fairs.
At the great Thanesur
Eclipse Mela of last year, these students were a feature of the place, as with a scarlet band round the right arm, they were distinguished as doctors. .Recently, when all the approaches to the cantonments and city of Umballa were in a 6tate of surveillance, these students were on the cordon posts, and sent in intelligence as to the health of travellers and neighbouring villages. The students help iu the daily works of the dispensary, and the older ones are clinical clerks, and keep the cases of the house patients. Dr. Bateson lectures in Hindoostanee on anatomy, medicine, and surgery. The Native Doctor of the Dispensary lectures anatomy to the junior class of students, and the Police Native Doctor lectures on materia medica ; books and other on
materials for medical study are obtained from the Agra Medical College. We hear there are similar classes at Kurnal. It would be well if the system was more extensively encour-
THE INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE.
268
practitioners, cheaply hut effecare, is a crying want all over energy of the Surgeon who origin-
aged.
The presence of native
tively
educated
India.
as
these
men
enterprise and plan, and of those who follow in his footsteps, will be productive of much good to the people of the country, and we would like to see the experiment tried on a more extended The
ated the
scale.
[December 1,
1869-
of students attached to the Umballa
reassembled for winter work
on
Dispensary
the 1st October with
an
open-
ing lecture by Dr. Bateson, the Civil Surgeon. Dr. Gray, Inspector-General of Prisons, was present. This is the seventh season this class has been in operation. The students are sons of respectable people of the district, who are subsidized by monthly sums drawn from local funds. There are two hakeems in the class; and one hakeem of the city, after studying for two years, has become superintendent of vaccination for the district. One of the old students is now engaged in private practice. "When sickness breaks out in a neighbouring village one of the advanced students proceeds there with suitable medicines, and one. or
more
attend at the district fairs.
At the great Thanesur
Eclipse Mela of last year, these students were a feature of the place, as with a scarlet band round the right arm, they were distinguished as doctors. .Recently, when all the approaches to the cantonments and city of Umballa were in a 6tate of surveillance, these students were on the cordon posts, and sent in intelligence as to the health of travellers and neighbouring villages. The students help iu the daily works of the dispensary, and the older ones are clinical clerks, and keep the cases of the house patients. Dr. Bateson lectures in Hindoostanee on anatomy, medicine, and surgery. The Native Doctor of the Dispensary lectures anatomy to the junior class of students, and the Police Native Doctor lectures on materia medica ; books and other on
materials for medical study are obtained from the Agra Medical College. We hear there are similar classes at Kurnal. It would be well if the system was more extensively encour-
THE INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE.
268
practitioners, cheaply hut effecare, is a crying want all over energy of the Surgeon who origin-
aged.
The presence of native
tively
educated
India.
as
these
men
enterprise and plan, and of those who follow in his footsteps, will be productive of much good to the people of the country, and we would like to see the experiment tried on a more extended The
ated the
scale.
[December 1,
1869-
