FACILITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESEARCH.
The Department of Medicine not only fosters in its methods of instruction
the inductive study by the student himself of the phenomena presented
by the human body in health and disease, but also encourages the
spirit of investigation of unsolved problems of medical science and practice
on the part of the instructors and students. During the past few years
there have appeared annually a number of papers from its laboratories
embodying the results of such investigations, and it is the policy of the department
to enlarge this feature of its work in the future. Students are encouraged
to engage in research as they are prepared for it, usually assisting
an instructor in some special study or else conducting the research
under his guidance and advice. For this purpose the scientific and clinical
laboratories offer the necessary facilities, and heads of departments will
always be glad to suggest and outline problems for investigation by any
medical student or by others possessing the necessary training therefor.
Library.—The medical Library contains upwards of 7,000 volumes. It
is housed in the basement of the Rotunda, and is in charge of a special
Librarian. The more important of its current journals include the following:
American Journal of Anatomy, American Journal of Diseases of Children,
American Journal of The Medical Sciences, American Journal of Obstetrics,
American Journal of Pharmacy, American Journal of Physiology,
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, American Journal of Psychology,
American Journal of Public Health, American Journal of Syphilis,
American Review of Tuberculosis, Annals of Surgery, Archives of Pediatrics,
Archives of Internal Medicine, The American Naturalist, Annales de
L'Institut Pasteur, l'Anthropologie, Archiv für Gynaekologie, Archives de
Biologie, Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, Archiv für die Gesammtes
Physiologie, Biochemical Journal, The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal,
The British Medical Journal, Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société D' Anthropologie de Paris, Comptes
Rendus, Endocrinology, Index Medicus, The Journal of Abnormal Psychology,
The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, The Journal of The
American Medical Association, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, The
Journal of Comparative Neurology, The Journal of Experimental Medicine,
The Journal of Hygiene, The Journal of Immunology, The Journal of
Infectious Diseases, The Journal of Medical Research, The Journal of
Nervous and Mental Diseases, The Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology,
The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, The
Journal of Physiology, The Journal of Sociologic Medicine, The Lancet,
The Medical Record, The New York Medical Journal, Physiological Abstracts,
Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine,
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Physiology, The Quarterly Journal
of Medicine, The Journal of Industrial Hygiene, Social Hygiene, The
Southern Medical Journal, Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Transactions
of the American Microscopical Society, Proceedings of the New
York Pathological Society, Virginia Medical Monthly.
