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INSTRUCTION IN THE DISPENSARY.

A Free Dispensary is now in operation at the University, under the
charge of the Medical Professors. Here the students are taught the
methods of examining patients, and the changes which occur in the
normal functions of the body as a result of disease. In recognition of
the impossibility of giving practical instruction by the ordinary clinical
lectures, the class is divided into sections, so that each student may
have the opportunity of examining patients for himself, under the guidance
of the Professor. In addition to the patients who come to the

Dispensary, others who are too sick to attend there are visited at their
homes.