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THE MEDICAL COLLEGE. 209
nation of the patients and to watch the modification of disease pro
duced by the remedies prescribed. The clinical work of the third and
fourth years affords abundant opportunities for further training in
therapeutics. A general medical clinic will be held by the professor
once a week in the amphitheatre of Bellevue Hospital.
Recitations. Students of the second year will recite to the in
structors twice a week from a standard text-book. During the third
year a recitation will be held once a week on therapeutics.
The recitations will embrace a study of the action of all the more
valuable remedial agents in connection with the description of the
drugs themselves.
Each student will be thoroughly drilled in prescription writing and
in the doses of the more important drugs.
Examinations will be held at stated times during the session by the
professor to enable him to judge of each student's progress.
Laboratory Work. The course of laboratory instruction is taken
during the first year, and consists of six hours each week for half
the year. The class is divided into small sections, and is under the
personal supervision of the instructor. The method of instruction is
distinctly
practical .
The
student is made familiar by the laboratory
work with the physical and chemical properties of drugs. This course
includes such subjects as the forms of drugs, their weight and bulk,
the measurement of solid and fluid drugs, methods of administering
medicines, particularly with reference to appropriate combinations
and the demonstration of solubilities. The subject of incompatibili
ties is clearly demonstrated. Prescription writing is taught through
out the course, and each prescription written is compounded by some
member of the section.
The materia medica laboratory is equipped for pharmaceutical in
struction, and students are taught practical exercises by in the pre
paration and of compounding drugs.
The laboratory is provided with a full assortment of crude drugs
and the various preparations of the materia medica, also with com
plete appliances for instruction in the remedial agents which are not
medicines. Advanced students will be given opportunity to study ex
perimentally
the physiological action of drugs.
Histology.
The work in this department is conducted throughout the first year
by means of recitations and laboratory exercises.
Recitations are held throughout the first year on subjects assigned
from a standard tex-book on histology.
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