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208 THE MEDICAL COLLEGE.
Laboratory
instruction will be given students of the first year six
hours weekly during one-half of the session. This course will con
sist of an experimental study of the commoner elements and com
pounds in illustration of the recitation course, and of training in the
processes of qualitative analysis of inorganic substances, including
mineral poisons.
When the new laboratories will be available students of the second
year will receive laboratory instruction equivalent to four hours'
labo
ratory work one-half weekly during the term in physiological chem
istry and the of chemistry the organic poisons.
These courses are personally conducted by the Professor of Chemis
try and Physics, assisted by the instructors.
First-year students presenting satisfactory evidence of having per
formed equivalent work in chemistry and physics will be excused
from first year work in this department, and be given advanced labo
work equivalent ratory in hours to that omitted.
Materia Medica and Therapeutics.
Instruction is given in this department by means of lectures, clini
cal instruction, recitations, and practical laboratory work.
Lectures. These are given by the professor once a week to the
second-year students and once a week to the third-year students.
They are confined almost exclusively to therapeutics, as it is belived
that materia medica can best be taught by recitations and by labora
tory work.
The physiological action of drugs will receive special attention and
their therapeutic application will be explained, so that the treatment
of disease may be on a systematic basis.
Lectures will be given on remedial agencies other than drugs, such
as massage, dietetics, climatology, mineral waters, and hydropathy.
Clinical Instruction. A new departure in the teaching of thera
peutics will be made by affording the students of the third year op
portunity to observe the effects of the different remedies, including
electricity, baths, douches, etc., on the natural course of disease. To
accomplish this the classes will be divided into small sections and
taken by the professor into the wards of Bellevue Hospital. Actual
practice is given in the employment and application of the various
therapeutic agents used in medicine, such as the hypodermic syringe,
aspirators, cups, cauteries, stomach-pump, stupes, and the different
varieties of baths and packs. The treatment of the different diseased
conditions observed will be systematically studied, and opportunities
will be given to the members of the class to make personal exami-