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218 THE MEDICAL COLLEGE.
unison as possible, a synopsis of the subject-matter of each lesson is
prepared by the instructor and amended and revised by the head of
the department. This is presented to the student for comparison with
his text-book,
to which it is an addendum. This method insures the
cooperation of the head of the department in the groundwork of his
his subject and enables him to keep in touch with each student until
his graduation.
Six Lectures, upon topics selected for their special importance and
interest, will be given during the third year.
Class-Room and Ward Demonstrations are given to sections of
the fourth-year class twice a week throughout the year. This instruc
tion includes the examination of patients by the student. When nec-
essasy the patients are anaesthetized.
The routine of treatment appropriate to the various conditions found
is demonstrated, the students assisting when possible. Familiarity in
this way is acquired not only with normal conditions within the pelvis
and the various departures from this state induced by disease, but op
portunity is afforded to see and put in practice actual measures of re
lief and to watch the subsequent course and treatment of these cases.
Operations are performed three days every week at which the sev
eral sections are enabled to study the detail of every operation peculiar
to this department.
A General Clinic is held once a week at which students selected
in rotation are required to examine the patient, make a diagnosis and
suggest treatment. are They questioned before the class upon all these
topics, as they relate to the case in hand, so as to determine the cor
rectness of their conclusions. Should operation be called for, it is
then performed.
Laboratory Demonstrations of secretions, discharges and speci
mens obtained from patients who come under observation during this
course are made to sections of the third-year class as a part of the
course in clinical microscopy.
Diseases of Children.
This course will embrace clinical instruction and section teaching
in all the important diseases of infancy and childhood, and the care
and of feeding infants.
Instruction in contagious diseases will be given at the bedside in
the Willard Parker hospital.
Diseases of the Nervous System. Mental Diseases.
Instruction in diseases of the nervous system will be given by