Excerpt from Official Register of Physicians and Midwives: Now in Practice to Whom Certificates Have Been Issued by the State Board of Health of Illinois, 1877-1886From the above tabular statement it will be seen that, while the aggregate number of practitioners has not materially varied, there are some notable changes inthe numbers of the different classes. Thus, there has been a gain of 779 graduates and licentiates these now forming over 87 per cent. Of the total number, as against about 77 per cent. In 1880, the number of licentiates upon examin ation of the state board has been largely diminished - mainly by their transfer to the number of graduates, very many of them hav ing, subsequent to their examination, attended lectures and obtained diplomas. Both classes of exempts Show heavy losses, due to death, graduation, abandonment of practice and removal from the State. Of the graduates 421 were registered as pharmacists on December 1, 1884, at. This time there are 529.The following summary, from the first register, and Corresponding figures from the present volume, exhibit these changes for the whole period since the medical-practice Act went into operation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.