Founded: Incorporated Laws of Maryland May 1890
Closed: 1910
Location 1891-1892: Hospital office 323 N. Paca Street , Baltimore, MD
Location 1892-1900: “Calvert Hall”, on Saratoga St. west of Charles Street , Baltimore, MD
Location 1901-?: 1140 Mount Street north of Riggs Ave on grounds of Maryland Homeopathic Hospital, Baltimore, MD

]Additional Information

• Dates: 1891
  Notes: The session of the Southern Homeopathic Medical Colege will open on Monday, October 5th, 1891, and will continue six months, closing with a public commencement on Wednesday, April 6th, 1892.This College was incorporated under the laws of the State of Maryland in May, 1890, and the Faculty would call attention to the fact that the standard of the college will be maintained fully equal to the requirements decided upon by the American Institute of Homeopathy in 1890.It is desired to impress upon the medical profession generally, as well as upon those young men and women who contemplate studying medicine, that by devotion and earnestness on the part of the Faculty, a high order of teaching will be maintained.It is the aim of the Faculty to make the course of instruction as thoroughly practical as possible. In order to effect this, every endeavor will be made to enlarge the clinical facilities of the college through the Hospital and Dispensary with which it is connected.

  Special attention will be paid to each student, so as to furnish the advantages of personal clinical instruction by the professors.

  Source: Announcement of the Southern Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital, session of 1891-2 Baltimore: Press of Snowden & Cowman: 5

• Dates: 1891
  Notes: THE MARYLAND HOMEOPATHIC FREE DISPENSARY AND HOSPITAL, under the auspices of the Maryland State Homeopathic Medical Society, is in a flourishing condition, and contains besides a number of private rooms, free male, female and children’s wards, which will furnish valuable clinical advantages to students.Source: Annoucement of the Southern Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital, session of 1891-2 Baltimore: Press of Snowden & Cowman: 5
• Dates: 1891
  Notes: Applicants for admission to the College must present to the Dean a certificate of good moral character and also one of graduation from a reputable literary college of high school; or a first grade teacher’s certificate; or a certificate of having passed the entrance examination to any reputable literary college; or else pass a preliminary entrance examination.The Entrance Examination will be held, prior to matriculation, on Monday, October 5th, 1891, at 4 p.m. The requirements will be the same as in all homoeopathic colleges in the United States.*Students who have attended either one or two annual terms in other accredited medical colleges must bring satisfactory certificates of qualification, or else pass the examinations of the corresponding term in this institution. They may then matriculate and be admitted to the final examination for the degree, upon completing in this College the remaining term or terms of the required three years’ course of study.Graduates in Pharmacy or Dentistry may, upon presenting their diplomas, matriculate and enter the second year of this College.

  Graduates of other accredited medical colleges may matriculate and enter the third or graduating term upon complying with the rules governing students who have attended two terms in another college.

  * In conformity with the action of the American Institute of Homoeopathy at its last meeting, after 1891 students not able to present the necessary diploma or certificate will be required to pass an examination as follows:
  1. English composition, by writing at the time of the examination an essay of not less than two hundred words, bu which may be judged the writer’s attainments in grammar, spelling, and writing
  2. Arithmetic as far as square root.
  3. Geography, physical and political, such as is contained in advanced school geographies.
  4. History; the outlines of history of modern civilized nations, especially American history, such as is contained in the ordinary manuals of history.
  5. Latin, sufficient to ready easy prose and to give a fair comprehension of scientific terms and formulae.
  6. Physics, such as is comprised in Balfour Stewart’s Primer of Physics.
  7. Biology and physiology, as much as is comprised in the briefer course of Martin’s Human Body.
  8. Chemistry as comprised in Miller’s Elementary Chemistry.
  9. Botany as found in the elementary manuals.

  Source: Announcement of the Southern Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital, session of 1891-2 Baltimore: Press of Snowden & Cowman: 6-7

• Dates: 1891
  Notes: A Department of Dentistry will be opened in the fall of 1892 with complete appointements, under the charge of a most skilled and experienced operator, Professor F.W. Schloendorn.Source: ,Announcement of the Southern Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital, session of 1891-2 Baltimore: Press of Snowden & Cowman: 12
• Dates: 1891
  Notes: A candidate for graduation must be at least twenty-one years of age and of good moral and professional standing; he must have studied medicine for four years, including attendance upon three full graded courses, the last of which must have been in this college; and he must have had one course each of practical instruction in anatomy, chemistry, histology, obstetrics and surgery.The candidate must have attended lectures of the course regularly, nor absented himself except for reasons of an imperative character. To constitute a full course, the absence, in any event, must not have exceeded one month, in the aggregate.He must give notice to the Dean on or before the first of March of his desire to graduate, and exhibit his tickets or other satisfactory evidence of having complied with the rules of the college; he must have paid all fees and also deposit with the Dean the graduation fee of thirty dollars (returnable if the candidate be rejected) before the permit for examination can be issued.

  The final examination will be conducted in private by each professor, and each candidate will be voted for by ballot.

  A candidate who fails to pass the examination will be required to attend another annual course of lectures, for which no charge will be made before applying for re-examination.

  Successful candidates will be formally notified and their names reported to the Board of Trustees in order that, with the approval of said Board, their mandamus may be issued for conferring the degree of Doctor of Medicine, at the Commencement which will be held as soon as possible after the close of the examination.

  The successful candidate must be present at Commencement exercises to receive his diploma in person.

  Source: Announcement of the Southern Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital, session of 1891-2 Baltimore: Press of Snowden & Cowman: 12-13

• Dates: 1892-1893
  Notes: The College is located in the centre of the City, on Saratoga street, between Charles and Cathedral, and is easily accessible by street cars from all railway stations and steamboat lines, as well as from all parts of the City.Source: Second Annual Announcement of the Southern Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital, session of 1891-2 Baltimore: Press of Thomas & Evans: 8
• Dates: 1892-1893
  Notes: The Polyclinic Dispensary of the College covers a space of 50 by 75 feet on the first floor, and is divided into a large waiting room and hall, opening into eight well-lighted clinic rooms 20 by 15 feet each, and a Pharmacy. Upon the right of the entrance are seen the Eye and Ear Department, with dark room adjoining; and immediately following are rooms for Gynaecology, Surgery and Surgical Diseases, Diseases of Children and Orthopaedic Surgery and Diseases of the Throat, Nose and Chest. Opposite are the rooms for treatment of Diseases of the Skin and Genito-Urinary Organs, Diseases of the Nervous System, General Medical Diseases and the Pharmacy. In the rear, upon the same floor, are located the coat rooms, with Lavatory adjoining, the Morgue and Boiler-room being in the rear.Source: Second Annual Annoucement of the Southern Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital, session of 1891-2 Baltimore: Press of Thomas & Evans: 8
• Dates: 1892-1893
  Notes: Upon the second floor front are the offices of the Dean and Registrar and Alumni Hall, followed on either side by Anatomical Hall and Chemical Hall. These halls are all used for lectures and are handsomely furnished with single theatre chairs, and having a seating capacity of 400 in the aggregate. In the rear of Chemical Hall is the Chemical Laboratory, with stands for 24 students. The Faculty Room and Lavatory for the Faculty completes this floor.On the third floor are located the Men’s Dissecting Room, one of the largest and best equipped extant, and the Physiological Laboratory, Obstetrical and Surgical Demonstration Rooms, Women’s Dissecting Room, Museum, Pathological Laboratory and the Women’s Study and Toilet Rooms, all of which are commodious and fully equipped. The building is heated throughout by steam.
  Source: Second Annual Annoucement of the Southern Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital, session of 1891-2 Baltimore: Press of Thomas & Evans: 8
• Dates: 1892-1893
  Notes: Hospital Facilities
  The Maryland Homoepathic Hospital is controlled by the Faculty, and offers every requirement for the sick or injured, both in the private rooms and public wards, which are in charge of a corps of trained nurses, directed by an efficient superintendent. Almost from its opening day its wards have been well filled. A large portion of the building is used as a City Hospital and contains charity beds supported by the City of Baltimore. This department of the Hospital is taxed to its utmost capacity to afford accomodations for patients seeking admission. Accident cases (never rare in a great city), as well as patients suffering from the various general medical and surgical diseases, occupy the beds and add greatly tot he facilities for clinical teaching enjoyed by the school.This portion of the hospital is conducted with the special purpose of furnishing clinical material to be used in illustration of the lectures. The arrangement of the building is well adapted for clinical purposes, and the Faculty is thus in position to make prominent this important feature of a medical course. In addition to the regular clinical Lectures in the amphitheater, much attention is also devoted to strictly bedside instruction, in which the third year students in classes are required to accompany the physician or surgeon through the wards, and to thus become practically familiar with the methods of diagnosis and treatment.
  Source: ,Second Annual Announcement of the Southern Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital, session of 1891-2 Baltimore: Press of Thomas & Evans: 8
• Dates: 1892-1893
  Notes: Bay View Asylum and Hospital
  This large and expensive charity, belonging to the City of Baltimore, is now accessible to all Medical Students, free of charge, and it offers advantages for studying and seeing almost every form and variety of disease and accident.It is situated on the eastern suburbs of Baltimore, and contains 1,000 beds, exclusive of 250 in the Insane Department.Regular clinics are given during the winter and spring sessions by the visiting staff. The amphitheaters are well lighted and comfortable, and the very large amount of clinical material affords unusual opportunities for practical teaching.

  The number of deaths occurring in an institution of this size affords the fullest opportunity for witnessing post-mortem examinations and the study of pathological phenomena.
  Source: Second Annual Announcement of the Southern Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital, session of 1891-2 Baltimore: Press of Thomas & Evans: 8

• Dates: 1892-1893
  Notes: Resident Students
  A limited number of advanced students can obtain special hospital advantages. Accommodations are provided in a building adjacent to the Hospital for four resident students, who are known as INTERNES. To theses are assigned wards in the hospital, with attendance upon the sick under the daily supervision of the professors of the College and the resident physician. Special attention is called to the fact that under-graduates are permitted to enjoy the very great advantages of constant observation of the sick, and of receiving daily beside instruction from the members of the Faculty. Rotation in ward service is the rule adopted in order that the experience of the student may be as varied as possible.The resident physician is selected annually in April, from among the graduates of the College.
  Source: Second Annual Announcement of the Southern Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital, session of 1891-2 Baltimore: Press of Thomas & Evans: 11
• Dates: 1892-1893
  Notes: Free Lying-In Hospital Department
  A ward in the Hospital devoted to midwifery is open during the entire year, and furnishes every student in attendance upon the lectures of this school, invaluable clinical advantages in the study of midwifery. The clinics are held in the lying-in chamber, and attendance on them by the graduating class, in sections, is obligatory.Source: Second Annual Announcement of the Southern Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital, session of 1891-2 Baltimore: Press of Thomas & Evans: 11
• Dates: 1892-1893
  Notes: Out Patient Department
  An Out-door Department has also been established in connection with the Lying-In Department, which will greatly extend the facilities for practical instruction in Obstetrics. Advanced students will be given charge of special cases under personal supervision of the Professor and Demonstrator of Obstetrics.Source: Second Annual Announcement of the Southern Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital, session of 1891-2 Baltimore: Press of Thomas & Evans: 11
• Dates: 1910
  Notes: ATLANTIC MEDICAL COLLEGE. Organized 1891 as an independent homeopathic institution. Having “passed through many vicissitudes,” it is now non-sectarian.
  Entrance requirement:Nominal.
  Attendance: 43, or whom 31 are in the senior class, 1 in the freshman class. Of 21 graduates, class of 1908, almost all had failed at other schools or before the regular state board before entering the Atlantic Medical College, on graduation from which they could appear before the Homeopathic State Board of Maryland, “reputed to be a much easier board to pass.”
  Teaching staff: 47, of whom 12 are professors, 35 of other grade. Two members of the teaching staff were graduated in the class of 1908, above mentioned, after having failed before the regular state board; a third instructor, also a graduate of 1908, entered this school after failure at the local College of Physicians and Surgeons.
  Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $3905 (estimated).
  Laboratory facilities: The school occupies a filthy building, in which are to be found an elementary chemical laboratory, a small room assigned to pathology, bacteriology, and histology, equipment being scant and dirty, an ordinary dissecting-room, a lecture-room with half a skeleton, a small amount of imperfect physiological apparatus with a few frogs, and a few cases of books, mostly old and useless.
  Clinical facilities: These are claimed at a small private hospital several miles off. They can at best be hardly more than nominal.
  The basement of the college building is used for a dispensary.
  Date of visit: March 1909.Source: Flexner, Abraham, Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching New York: The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: 238