Excerpt from First Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Illinois, 1878: Made to the Governor The examinations have been conducted by a series of printed questions and written answers. At each meeting for examination a new series of questions was placed before the class, and one of the members of the Board supervised the class while it was engaged in answering the questions. Less than one-half of those who presented themselves were able to obtain the required eighty per cent. Of correct answers necessary to secure from the Board its certificate of examination. Where the candidates had any special or peculiar views of theory and practice of medicine or of therapeutics, respect was paid to such differences of Opinion, and they were allowed, upon request, to appear before individual members of the Board for especial examination in such branches. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.