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PHYSIOLOGY.

Professor Hough.

Physiology.—Four hours weekly of lectures, recitations, and demonstrations
throughout the second year; six hours weekly of laboratory
work in the fall and winter terms. The physiology of muscle and nerve;
blood and lymph; the circulation; respiration; secretion; digestion and
nutrition; excretion; the sense organs; and the central nervous system.
The laboratory is equipped with kymographs, induction coils,
signals, muscle and heart levers, tambours, manometers, etc., for
thirty men working at one time in pairs. The work of the laboratory
closely follows the lectures and is an integral part of the study of
each subject. The student becomes practically acquainted with the
methods of modern physiological investigation and is required to hand
in tracings or other records together with full descriptions of his experiments.
The satisfactory completion of the laboratory work is as
necessary to a clear record on the course as is the passing of the final
examinations.

Open only to students who have obtained a grade of seventy per
cent. in Histology and in Physiological Chemistry. The satisfactory
completion of the laboratory work of this course is necessary for admission
to Pharmacology.

During the winter and spring terms a student's Physiological Journal

Club meets with the professor one evening every two weeks to report
and discuss current literature.

Advanced Physiology.—Six hours weekly throughout the winter and
spring terms. An elective open to third and fourth year students who
have completed Physiology. Some one portion of physiology
—the subject changing from year to year—is studied more fully than
is possible in the required courses and students are referred to the
original literature as far as possible. As an introduction to the methods
of experimental investigation, either a number of more difficult
experiments are assigned or else the student repeats the experimental
work of some original memoir. He then undertakes, under the
guidance of the professor in charge, an investigation, which may be
continued, if desired, into the spring term. There are weekly conferences
for the discussion of the assigned reading and experiments.

The object of the course is to afford those students who are inclined
to specialize in physiology the opportunity to do so. The
course must at present be limited to four students.