 | The University of Virginia record February, 1908 |  |
DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE.
| EDWIN ANDERSON ALDERMAN, D. C. L., LL. D., | President. |
| RICHARD HENRY WHITEHEAD, A. B., M. D., | Dean. |
| JOHN WILLIAM MALLET, M. D., Ph. D., LL. D., F. R. S., | Professor of Chemistry |
| JOHN STAIGE DAVIS, M. A., M. D., | Professor of Practice of Medicine and Pediatrics |
| WILLIAM ALEXANDER LAMBETH, M. D., Ph. D., | Professor of Hygiene |
| RICHARD HENRY WHITEHEAD, A. B., M. D., | Professor of Anatomy |
| CHARLES HENRY BUNTING, B. S., M. D., | Professor of Pathology and Pathologist to the University Hospital |
| WILLIAM DOUGLAS MACON, M. D., | Professor of Obstetrics |
| THEODORE HOUGH, Ph. D., | Professor of Physiology |
| STEPHEN HURT WATTS, M. A., M. D., | Professor of Surgery and Gynecology |
| ROBERT MONTGOMERY BIRD, Ph. D., | Professor of Chemistry |
| HALSTEAD SHIPMAN HEDGES, M. A., M. D., | Professor of Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat |
| ———, | Professor of Pharmacology and Materia Medica |
| JAMES CARROLL FLIPPIN, M. D., | Adjunct Professor of Clinical Medicine and University Physician |
| CHARLES METCALFE BYRNES, B. S., M. D., | Adjunct Professor of Anatomy |
| HARVEY BRINTON STONE, A. B., M. D., | Adjunct Professor of Surgery and Gynecology |
| HARVEY ERNEST JORDAN, M. A., Ph. D., | Adjunct Professor of Anatomy |
| EDWARD MAY MAGRUDER, M. D., | Clinical Instructor in Physical Diagnosis |
| JOHN ALDINE NORFORD, M. D., | Instructor in Anatomy |
| HUGH THOMAS NELSON, M. D., | Clinical Instructor in Genito-Urinary Surgery |
| ROBERT FRENCH COMPTON, M. D., | Clinical Instructor in Diseases of the Ear, Nose, and Throat |
| MONTE LEWIS REA, M. D., | Clinical Instructor in Pediatrics |
| WADE HAMPTON BROWN, B. S., M. D., | Instructor in Pathology |
| RICHARD WINGFIELD GARNETT, M. D., | Clinical Instructor in Dermatology |
| WILLIAM HALL GOODWIN, B. A., | Assistant in Surgery |
| JOHN PIERPONT FLETCHER, | Assistant in Surgery |
| ERNEST ALEXANDER PURDUM, | Assistant in Physiology |
| JOHN BACHMAN SETZLER, A. B., | Assistant in Physiology |
| ALGERNON STUBBLEFIELD VAIDEN, | Assistant in Physiology |
| HENRY GRANT LIND, M. D., | Senior Interne in the Hospital |
| HERBERT GRASTY DICKIE, M. D., | Junior Interne in the Hospital |
| REGINALD BUCHANAN HENRY, M. D., | Junior Interne in the Hospital |
| ERNEST WINFIELD SCOTT, M. D., | Resident Dispensary Physician |
| JULIUS SHEPPARD MOORE, B. A., | Dispensary Pharmacist |
Requirements for Admission to the Medical Department.—Applicants
for admission to the work of the first year of the Course in
Medicine are required to present the diploma of a recognized institution
of collegiate rank; or a certificate of good standing in such an
institution; or the diploma of a recognized public or private high
school having at least a three years' course; or acceptable certificates
which represent work equivalent in amount and character to
such a high school course; and, in addition, to present satisfactory
evidence of the completion of college courses in physics, chemistry,
and biology equivalent to but not necessarily identical with those at
this institution. In consideration of educational acquirements in
other subjects, a student may be conditioned on physics or biology
(but not on both), this condition to be removed before entering on
the work of the second year. The requirement in biology may be
waived in the case of graduates of approved colleges and universities.
Applicants unable to satisfy these requirements by acceptable
certificates, in part or in whole, may remove their deficiencies by
satisfactory examinations.
Further information concerning the character of these requirements
and forms for certificates may be obtained by addressing the
Dean of the University, or Mr. Howard Winston, Registrar, at the
University.
Announcement of Change in Entrance Requirements beginning
with 1910.—From and after June 1, 1910, the minimum amount of
preparation necessary for admission to the Medical Department will
and, in addition, the completion of college courses in Inorganic
Chemistry, Physics, Biology and one Language, preferably German.
The work of each of the four years of the course in Medicine
continues through the nine months of the University session. Studies
included are arranged as follows:
During the first session: Chemistry; Normal Histology and Embryology;
Anatomy and Anatomy of Nervous System; Physiological
Chemistry.
During the second session: Physiology; Bacteriology; Pathology;
Anatomy; Pharmacology and Physical Diagnosis.
During the third session: Obstetrics; Materia Medica; Practice
of Medicine; Surgery; Gynecology; Clinical Diagnosis; Clinics.
During the fourth session: Neurology; Pediatrics; Therapeutics;
Hygiene; Surgery; Dermatology; Gynecology; Medical Jurisprudence;
Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat; Clinics.
An examination of this system will show that the work of the
first year is given to those sciences which are fundamental to the
entire work of the remaining part of the course; that of the second
year includes the study of those sciences, more distinctively medical,
which are based upon the work of the previous year, while they in
turn underlie the more strictly professional subjects of study; these
latter are begun in the second year, while the third and fourth years
are devoted wholly to them. The work of the first year is accompanied
by extensive practical work in the laboratory; the same is true
of the work of the second year, while in the third, and especially
the fourth year, the time of the student is devoted largely to practical
clinical instruction. The facilities afforded by the University for such
work will be more fully described in the statements which follow
concerning the different subjects included in the course.
Relations of the Student in the Second and Succeeding Years.—
For the purposes of this Department the attainment of a grade of
eighty per cent. upon a subject is regarded as satisfactory, and students
who obtain such grades are excused from further attendance
upon the subjects in question. Students who attain a grade less than
eighty per cent. but as much as seventy per cent. on one or more
subjects are entitled to admission to the Fall Examinations of the
following session as explained in a subsequent paragraph, when deficiencies
may be removed by satisfactory examinations. Those who
receive a grade of less than seventy per cent. on one or more subjects
are regarded as having failed thereon, and are required to take such
subject or subjects over during the succeeding year, without, however,
the payment of any additional fee. In general a student who
all the exercises of the course, and will not be excused from any
exercise thereof because of schedule conflicts with more advanced
work.
No student will be admitted to any subject of the second or
the third year if more than one-third of the work of the preceding
year remains unfinished. If at the beginning of the year his deficiencies
have not been made up by the satisfactory completion of courses
at some school approved by the instructors in charge at this University,
he may continue as a student in the Department of Medicine
only by repeating the entire work of the year in which he has
failed. In the interpretation of this rule the values of the subjects
of the first and second years are estimated by points as follows:
Anatomy 1, 16 points; Anatomy 2, 5 points; Chemistry 4, 7 points;
Organic Laboratory, 8 points; Histology, 14 points; Embryology, 6
points; Physiological Chemistry, 8 points. Anatomy 3, 16 points;
Physiology 2, 20 points; Bacteriology, 8 points; Pathology, 20 points.
Students will not be allowed to undertake the work of the third
or fourth year until they have completed that of the first year, save
by special consent of the Medical Faculty based in each case upon a
careful examination of the student's real interest.
A student may not be examined upon the entire course in any
subject more than three times. Failure upon the third trial involves
withdrawal from the Department of Medicine.
Advanced Standing.—Students are admitted to advanced standing
in the second and third years under the following conditions:
1. Satisfaction of the requirements for entrance into this Department.
2. The presentation of a certificate from an accredited school of
medicine showing that the applicant has completed work equivalent
to that maintained by this Department with a grade of at least eighty
per cent. in each subject for which credit is sought. Applicants complying
with these conditions will be admitted to advanced standing
without examination. Applicants who have not completed all of the
work of the year or years preceding that to which they seek admission
are admitted to the Fall Examinations under the conditions
stated in the first paragraph of the preceding section. The right is
reserved in every case to obtain satisfactory evidence of the genuineness
of a certificate by correspondence with the proper authority of
the school from which the applicant comes.
No credit can be allowed for time not spent in a regular school
of medicine; except that applicants holding the degree of A. B. or
B. S. from a reputable college or university will be admitted to the
of the first-year medical course.
A student who is already a graduate of a reputable school of
medicine may be received as a student in this Department for the
fourth year.
Certificates of Attendance.—Students who attend the whole regular
course of one or more of the four years are entitled to certificates
of attendance.
Requirements for Graduation.—The degree of Doctor of Medicine
is conferred by the University of Virginia upon candidates who have
complied with the entrance requirements of this Department; attended
a regular medical course of four years of at least eight months
each, the last two of which must have been at this institution; and
passed satisfactory examinations upon all of the subjects included in
the medical course.
Examinations.—These are in writing, accompanied in most subjects
by individual practical examinations. The regular examinations
are held at stated periods during the session. In addition, examinations
are held each year during the week immediately preceding the
beginning of lectures. To the latter are admitted:
1. Students of the previous session, who from illness or other
equivalent cause approved by the faculty, were unable to present
themselves for examination in any particular subject at the regular
time.
2. Students who at the regular examination of the preceding
year have attained a grade less than eighty per cent. but as much as
seventy per cent. on one or more subjects, as explained in a preceding
paragraph.
3. Certain applicants for advanced standing, as explained in the
paragraph under that heading.
The Fall Examinations for 1908-09 begin September seventh, and
close September twelfth. Application for admission to them should
be made in writing to Dr. R. H. Whitehead, Dean of the Department
of Medicine, not later than September first.
A General Oral Examination for Graduation is held at the close
of the sess on on all the different branches on which the candidate for
the degree of Medicine has passed during either that session or some
preceding one. This is intended to test the permanent acquisition
of such general knowledge as every practitioner of medicine should
possess.
Expenses.—The tuition fees are $110 for the first year, $100 for
the second year, $80 for the third year, and $60 for the fourth year.
fee (which entiles the student to the use of the library, the gymnasium,
to medical attention, etc.), an average of about $200 for living
expenses, and $20 for books.
CHEMISTRY.
Professor Mallet.
Professor Bird.
Chemistry 4, three hours weekly for the first two terms. Lectures
and recitations. In this course theoretical and organic chemistry are
taught, with incidental reference to the bearing of the facts brought forward
upon physiology, the practice of medicine, therapeutics, and sanitation.
Professor Mallet.
Organic Laboratory: Laboratory course.—Six hours weekly for
the first two terms. The principles of the different classes of compounds
of carbon are studied experimentally and the more important compounds
are prepared. A grade of 70 per cent. on this course is required for admission
to Physiological Chemistry (Physiology 1). Professor Bird.
ANATOMY.
Professor Whitehead.
Adjunct Professor Byrnes.
Adjunct Professor Jordan.
Dr. Norford.
The course in this subject extends through the entire first year and
the first six months of the second year. It is divided, for the sake of
convenience, as follows:
Anatomy I.—This begins with a systematic study of the bones,
on the completion of which a "part" (either the head and neck, upper
extremity and thorax, or lower extremity and abdomen) is assigned to
each student for dissection and study. Emphasis is placed upon the benefit
to be derived by the student who obtains his knowledge at first hand and
by his own personal efforts. While practical dissection and the consideration
of topographical relations make up the essential features of the course,
there are occasional lectures and frequent recitations, followed by a final
written examination in March. The satisfactory performance of the
laboratory work is essential to a passing grade. Dr. Whitehead.
Anatomy II.—In this course, given during the last ten weeks of
the first year, the central nervous system is studied in some detail. The
study begins with the spinal cord, its membranes, circulation, and gross
anatomy. One complete spinal cord is given to each two students. This
is followed by the microscopic study of sections from the more important
spinal segments.
The brain is then studied in a similar manner. In the gross study
one entire brain is furnished to each two students, supplemented by transverse
and sagittal sections. The microscopic sections consist of a transverse
series extending from the pyramidal decussation to the head of the
caudate nucelus, so arranged that each student will have at least twenty-five
sections in series, thus affording sufficient continuity of structure.
Great emphasis is attached to laboratory work, and the actual knowledge
of the specimens studied. This is supplemented by recitations, lantern
demonstrations, and occasional lectures. Dr. Byrnes.
Anatomy III.—This course is a continuation of Anatomy I, and
consists of the systematic dissection and study, by essentially the same
methods, of the parts not studied during the first year. From October 1st
through the second term of the second year. Dr.Byrnes.
Histology.—This course extends through the fall and winter
terms. Laboratory work, upon which special stress is laid, occupies nine
hours weekly, and is accompanied by a systematic course of lectures, study
of a text-book, and frequent recitations. The student's record in the course
will depend upon his recitations, laboratory drawing books, and final
examination, both written and practical. The course aims to acquaint the
student primarily with the microscopic structure of cells, tissues and
organs. Cytogenesis and histogenesis are briefly considered in the case
of many tissues studied; and the relation of the whole subject of histology
to pathology is never lost sight of. The student is also given opportunity
to acquaint himself with the principles and practice of histological technique.
The laboratory is excellently equipped with microscopes, paraffin
baths, microtomes, and various accessories essential to the most favorable
presentation of this course. Dr. Jordan and Dr. Norford.
Embryology.—This course is given in the spring term. The laboratory
work includes six hours a week, and is accompanied by lectures,
recitations and study of models and text-books. It strives to give the
student a knowledge of developmental processes, in the light of which he
may the better understand the more abstruse normal conditions of adult
anatomy, as well as many anomalies and variations, neoplasms and malformations.
The close correlation of obstetrics is recognized, and a correct
knowledge of the fetus and its membranes is taught from the embryological
approach. The course is made as practical as possible for the
student and practitioner of medicine. It begins with a consideration of
maturation phenomena, fertilization, segmentation, and the development
of the germ-layers. This study is made chiefly upon the ova and early
stages of an invertebrate, followed by a comparison in an amphibian. The
chick is used for the primary relations of the systems to one another; and
this is followed by the study of pig embryos, where each system is taken
up separately and the organology and histogenesis of its parts are studied.
studied in their variations among the amniota. Dr. Jordan and Dr.
Norford.
PHYSIOLOGY.
Professor Hough.
Mr. Purdum.
Mr. Setzler.
Mr. Vaiden.
The course of study in this subject begins with the spring term of the
first year and continues throughout the second year. It is divided as
follows:
Physiology 1: Physiological Chemistry.—Given in the spring
term of the first year. The fundamentals of physiological chemistry;
especially the chemical structure, properties, and reactions of the more
important compounds with which the student must deal in his subsequent
studies of physiology. Instruction is given by lectures, recitations, and
extensive laboratory work, for which ample facilities are provided. Practical
laboratory tests during the course, as well as a written examination
at the end, are required.
A grade of 70 per cent. on this course is required for admission to
Physiology 2. Open only to students who have attained a grade of 70 per
cent. in Professor Bird's course in Organic Chemistry.
Physiology 2.—Four hours weekly of lectures, recitations and
demonstrations throughout the second year; six hours weekly of
laboratory work throughout the first two 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 applications of physiology to personal hygiene are discussed
in conferences.
The satisfactory completion of the laboratory work is as necessary to
a clear record as the passing of final examinations. Open only to students
who have obtained a grade of 70 per cent. in Histology and Physiological
Chemistry.
BACTERIOLOGY.
Professor Bunting.
Dr. Brown.
Bacteriology is taught as a laboratory subject during the fall
term of the second year. In it the students are acquainted with the
methods of the modern bacteriological laboratory, through their actual
employment, and acquire a working knowledge of the more important
pathogenic organisms. The laboratory is well equipped with the apparatus
necessary for such a course.
The practical laboratory work is supplemented by lectures and recitations
on the general biology of bacteria, on their relation to infection and
disease, and on immunity.
PATHOLOGY.
Professor Bunting.
Dr. Brown.
The course in Pathology is a direct continuation of the course in
Bacteriology, instruction being given in it from the Christmas recess until
the close of the year. Pathological Anatomy and Pathological Histology
are taught in the laboratory by the study of gross and miscroscopic specimens
following a descriptive lecture, and with personal demonstrations by
the instructing staff. The principles of General Pathology which cannot
be fully treated in the laboratory are considered in lectures and recitations
throughout the course.
The conduct of autopsies and the recording of results are taught in
the post mortem service at the University Hospital.
Open only to students who have obtained a grade of 80 per cent. in
Histology.
OBSTETRICS.
Professor Macon.
This subject is presented to the student by lectures, with frequent oral
examinations, by a series of manikin demonstrations, by work with the
living subject in the wards of the Hospital, and by attendance on patients
in the out-patient obstetric service connected with the Dispensary.
The manikin course forms an important part of the work not only for
teaching presentation, position and posture, but also the mechanism of
normal and abnormal labor, and application of forceps. The class is
divided into sections of five each, and a knowledge of the manikin work
will form a part of the examination for graduation in this department.
After a section has finished the manikin course, it is taken into the
wards of the Hospital, where the methods of examination, particularly
abdominal palpation, are practised on the living subject. Each section is
required to fill up a carefully prepared form, so that all the details of the
case of the patient before labor is made familiar to the student.
The number of out-patient cases is increasing year by year and is
becoming an important part of the teaching. The clinical assistant in
obstetrics is prepared at any time to accompany a student to the home of a
patient, and is provided with the necessary armamentarium for conducting
a case. The large negro population in the neighborhood of Charlottesville
affords a class of patients which presents all the difficulties to clean work
for one who is trying to educate an "aseptic center." If asepsis can be
secured in a hovel it can be preserved in a palace. The student is thus
taught how to manage cases by himself and at the same time avoids falling
into the slovenly habits he is sure to form without proper guidance.
PHARMACOGNOSY.
Professor Lambeth.
The Department is provided with a good collection of drugs, both
crude and prepared, with which the students are made familiar as dealt
with in the lectures. Exercises in prescription-writing are given weekly
for several months, these exercises being required both in the ordinary
English or apothecary system and the French or metric system. The
course is in part a laboratory course, students working in sections which
vary in size according to the work in hand. The practical experience given
is intended to acquaint the student as thorough with the
physical and chemical properties of the materials used in the treatment of
disease, to which he will find it much easier to add the physiological action,
than if he had approached the subject first from the medical side.
SURGERY AND GYNECOLOGY.
Professor Watts.
Adjunct Professor Stone.
THIRD YEAR.
The course in Surgery begins in the third year and continues
through the fourth year. In the third year the class room work consists
of lectures and recitations, as arranged in the schedule, in which the
Principles and Practice of Surgery, Surgical Diseases, Surgical Diagnosis,
etc., are thoroughly discussed. This also includes the surgical specialties,
Orthopedics, Genito-urinary Surgery, etc.
The laboratory work in the third year consists of a course in Surgical
Pathology and another in Operative Surgery. The first deals with the
gross and microscopic diagnosis of the more important surgical lesions.
The operative work is done upon cadavers and the lower animals. In the
case of the latter the operations, performed with all the technical care
exercised in human surgery, teach anesthetization, the handling of
living tissues, and the various operative procedures.
The Dispensary course in the third year gives opportunities for diagnosis
and treatment of clinical cases under close personal supervision.
Experience in dressings, bandaging, anesthesia, and minor surgery is
afforded. Surgical appliances and technique are demonstrated to the
students, divided into small groups.
FOURTH YEAR.
In the fourth year the instruction is carried on by clinics and bed-side
demonstrations in the hospital. In the wards the students are assigned
cases, whose histories they must take, make complete physical and clinical
examinations, urine analyses, blood examinations, etc. In the ward rounds
the diagnosis, operative and other treatment, post operative care of the
cases, complications, prognosis, etc., are discussed in detail. A large
variety of cases is available, and the close contact of the students with
their cases and with the routine of hospital management offer many of
the opportunities that an internship affords.
In the operating rooms the students, in small groups, take part in the
operations, thus acquiring familiarity with technique, anesthetization, etc.
Those of the class who are not assisting, witness the operations, whose
important features are demonstrated to them.
The course in Gynecology follows closely the outlines already
described for surgery. In the third year the general principles of gynecology
are taken up in lectures and recitations. In addition, the dispensary
affords practice in palpation, diagnosis and treatment.
In the fourth year the students have the same general work as in
surgery, consisting of the examination and recording of cases in the
public wards, attendance on ward rounds, at which the cases are discussed,
and observation and assistance in the operating rooms.
PRACTICE OF MEDICINE.
Professor Davis.
Adjunct Professor Flippin.
Dr. Magruder.
The Theory and Practice of Medicine is taught in a systematic
course of lectures, which are supplemented by clinical teaching at the
Dispensary and Hospital, during the third and fourth years.
Nervous Diseases and Insanity are taken up in the fourth year,
and in connection with them instruction in electro-therapeutics is given.
The graduating class is divided into two sections, each of which
devotes itself for half the year to the medical service in the wards of the
hospital. Full histories are taken of every case, thorough examinations
made, and management indicated by the students of each division under
daily instruction.
The same plan is pursued with the students of the third year at the
Dispensary three times a week.
A practical examination in diagnosis and treatment is required of each
student at the end of the fourth year.
PEDIATRICS.
Professor Davis.
Dr. Rhea.
This course of lectures is intended to point out in a brief way how
disease is modified by childhood and to indicate how the difficulties of
diagnosis and treatment due to an early age may be best encountered. The
student is taught how to prepare food for infants. Instruction in the
practical details of the subject will be given as far as possible by work
at the Dispensary and in the wards of the Hospital.
MATERIA MEDICA.
Professor Lambeth.
This course embraces not only the most important drugs of the last
revision of the U. S. Pharmacopœia, but also such members of the newer
materia medica as bid fair to become official. In addition to the physiological
action of the drugs, stress is laid upon the chemistry of all active
principles that may influence their administration or combination.
CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS.
Adjunct Professor Flippin.
The purpose of this course is to familiarize the student with modern
laboratory methods as applied to the diagnosis of disease. The systematic
examination of blood, sputum, vomitus, urine, fæces, exudates, transudates
and milk is first practiced; after which, specimens from selected cases
in the wards of the Hospital are studied with reference to the application
of information thus obtained to the recognition of specific
diseases.
THERAPEUTICS.
Adjunct Professor Flippin.
The subject of Therapeutics is taken up among the studies of the
fourth year. The range of the work embraces both general and special
therapeutics, whether rational or empirical, but a constant effort will be
made throughout to trace those general underlying principles, the existence
of which alone enables this subject to be called a science. The
method pursued will be that of taking up in order the perversions of the
various organs and functions rather than the specific forms of disease.
DERMATOLOGY.
Professor Davis.
Dr. Garnett.
A brief course of lectures is given on this subject embodying a consideration
of the commoner diseases met with in medical practice. At the
Dispensary two clinics a week throughout the year are devoted to the
diseases of the skin. The senior class is divided into sections for the
work in this branch. After a brief review of the anatomic and histologic
structure and of the physiology of the skin, the diseases most commonly
met with are discussed.
The clinical material available at the University Dispensary will be
utilized to the best advantage to give the students a practical working
knowledge of the diagnosis and treatment of affections of the skin.
DISEASES OF THE EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT.
Professor Hedges.
Dr. Compton.
In these subjects two lectures a week for the first half of the year
will be given the fourth year class. The aim of the course will be to train
the general practitioner in the diagnosis and treatment of such conditions
as are met in daily practice,—that he may not refer to a perhaps distant
"specialist" cases which should be treated at home and that he may refer
intelligently and promptly such cases as do need the attention of a specially
trained worker.
Clinics in the Dispensary will be held twice weekly throughout the
session. Here students will be taught individually the uses of the ophthalmoscope,
head-mirror, etc., and methods of diagnosis and treatment.
Cases in the University Hospital will be demonstrated to small sections
of the class at a time.
HYGIENE.
Professor Lambeth.
The course begins with an historical sketch of the development of
preventive medicine, including short biographical sketches of the pioneers
of Hygiene. With this introduction the story of the natural history of
contagious and infectious diseases, modes of propagation and methods of
prevention engage the attention of the student. With this preparation, the
chemical and bacteriological contamination of food, water, air, and soil is
made an important study. Instruction is also begun in the proper location
and construction of habitations, hospitals, schoolhouses, etc., with especial
Notice is taken of the special relations involved in military and naval
hygiene.
MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE AND TOXICOLOGY.
Professor Mallet.
In this course the general relations of medicine to law are discussed,
and the duties and rights of the medical expert as a witness, with a study
of the poisons most commonly needing attention in their chemical and
physiological aspects. The other special branches of legal medicine and
surgery are taken charge of by the other professors of the Medical Department,
to whose chairs the several subjects are naturally most cognate.
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