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JAPAN BY THE JAPANESE

The title of Igakushi (licentiate of medicine) is granted to the successful candidate in the examination.

A hospital sufficiently large to accommodate 570 in-patients is attached to the Medical College, into which are admitted such patients as may be deemed instructive cases in medical and surgical investigation. It also contains laboratories for carrying out researches upon subjects relating to the sciences of medicine and surgery. Beside ordinary patients, the hospital admits free patients; that is, the treatment is not only free to them, but medicine and food are furnished gratis, and even clothes are sometimes lent free. A part of the present building is being rebuilt, and is to be enlarged somewhat, the estimates having already been approved by the Imperial Parliament. Even when this scheme of enlargement shall have been accomplished, it will be too small for the present needs of the college, and a further enlargement is to be hoped for in the near future. Among the new buildings already constructed or in the course of construction, a large number are designated as the laboratories of anatomy, physiology, medical chemistry, pharmacology, hygiene, and forensic medicine, the old laboratories having been found too small and inconvenient. The laboratories are to be provided with everything necessary for demonstrations and researches. The utmost encouragement is given to original research; the results obtained have been published in the four volumes of the Mittheilungen aus der Medicinischen Facultät, which are well known in the medical world.

Those who have finished the three years’ course have to undergo a written, a practical, and an oral examination. In the first they are examined in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmacography, and Dispensing; in the second, in Analysis, Japanese Pharmacopœia, Pharmaceutical Chemistry (practical), Dispensing (practical), Forensic Chemistry (practical), and Sanitary Chemistry (practical); in the third, in Pharmacography, Medical Botany, Organic Chemistry, Forensic Chemistry, and Sanitary Chemistry. The title of Yakugakushi (licentiate of pharmacy) is granted to the successful candidate. This course is one of the least popular, and the average number of graduates during the last ten years has been less than two.

The Engineering College.

The following nine courses, each of which extends over three years, have been established in the Engineering College:

  1. Civil Engineering.
  2. Mechanical Engineering.
  3. Naval Architecture.
  4. Technology of Arms.
  5. Electrical Engineering.
  6. Architecture.
  7. Applied Chemistry.
  8. Technology of Explosives.
  9. Mining and Metallurgy.
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