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DISPENSARY.

The Dispensary has been remodeled and refitted along modern lines
so that the material is utilized for purposes of instruction to a much
greater extent than is usually done in clinical teaching. The amphitheater
is so arranged that no student is over fifteen feet from the
clinical chair, and each can thus understand and appreciate all that is
shown him. Sections of the graduating class assemble in turn before the
hour for the clinic and examine the cases, on which they report and are
questioned by the instructor. A record is kept of their proficiency in
this respect; to which special importance is attached when estimating
their fitness for graduation. About fifteen hundred cases are treated each

year. There is a daily clinic at the Dispensary, in each case occupying the
entire afternoon, distributed through the week as follows:

           

Monday,	Dr. Davis,	Medical.
Tuesday,	Dr. Venable,	Dermatologic.
Wednesday,	Dr. Magruder,	Medical (Physical Diagnosis).
Thursday,	Dr. Randolph,	Gynecological.
Friday,	Dr. Hedges,	Ophthalmic.
Saturday,	Dr. Nelson,	Genito-urinary.

In addition to the work at the Dispensary, the class in sections
have seen numerous important surgical operations outside (besides those
at the Hospital), under the care of the clinical teachers. A large number
of the students have been in a similar manner brought into intimate
contact with cases of serious illness of various kinds. In obstetrical work,
most of the class have been able to see at least one case each, while some
members have had as many as eight or nine cases; it is believed that more
systematic arrangements can now be made, and that in the future every
member of the class can have one or more cases during the session.
Regular attendance upon the daily clinics is required in the last two
years of the course.