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210 THE MEDICAL COLLEGE.
The recitations are designed to familiarize the student with the
theoretical structure of the various tissues and organs prior to the
practical demonstration of the microscopic sections.
Laboratory exercises, in two-hour sessions will occupy about ninety
hours during the year. The work comprises instruction in the con
struction and use of the microscope ; the preparation, hardening, em
bedding, cutting, staining and of mounting all the various normal
tissues of the body. The primary object of the course is to teach the
student by a logical sequence of study and microscopical demonstra
tion the minute anatomy of the human body. Attention is constantly
directed to the practical application of this knowledge to the explana
tion of the phenomena of physiology and to the characteristic appear
ance of normal tissues as forming the basis for the study of path
ology. An examination is held at the close of the course.
Pathology.
The instruction in pathology includes one recitation weekly and
attendance upon autopsies in the second year ; microscopical and
gross demonstrations and lectures upon general and special pathology
and upon the bacteriology of the infectious diseases in the third year ;
and instruction in the technics of post-mortem examinations, with
weekly recitations npon the entire subject, in the fourth year.
Microscopical Demonstrations in Pathology. The student
having been prepared for the detailed study of pathology by attend
ance upon autopsies in the second year, the main branches of the sub
ject are grouped in the third year in order to emphasize the close con
nection between the gress and microscopical changes in diseased
tissues.
The microscopical demonstrations are designed to illustrate the
principles of general and special pathology, and constitute the main
feature of the instruction in this department during the third year.
The specimens studied embrace the topics of inflammation, tumors,
auto-intoxication, infectious diseases and diseases of the nervous sys
tem and are supplementad by lectures and by
by
means of charts and photomicrographs.
special demonstrations
In the study of the infectious diseases special attention is devoted
to pathogenic micro-organisms. The course occupies six hours each
week for one-half the year.
Gross Pathology. Students of the second year are required to
attend the autopsies performed by members of the fourth-year class,
in order to become acquainted, in a general way, with the gross ap
pearance of diseased organs and to be prepared for the study of clini
cal medicine.