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302 the profession altogether, or to embrace some variety of quackery.

I believe that in all parts of Europe the requisites for a degree far exceed any in the United States. In Great Britain and France a more thorough preliminary education is required before the candidate is allowed to commence his pupilage. He is then to study four years, and six months of each year must be passed at some regular medical college. He must become thoroughly acquainted with hospital practice and clinical surgery. He must also have an experimental knowledge of chemical pharmacy, and be able to pass a rigid examination in all the collateral sciences. In Austria and Prussia the standard is still higher;—a liberal education is an indispensable prerequisite, after which five years of study and instruction are required, during which time the candidate for a degree must undergo a thorough examination every six months. There are, it is true, some quacks in all these countries, but they are always of a low order, and never held in much estimation by intelligent people.