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HISTOLOGY.

Professor Tuttle.

Normal Histology is taught by lectures, accompanied by practical work
in the laboratory, which is amply equipped for the purpose. The class is
divided into working sections of thirty-six, that number of desks being provided
with microscopes, accessory apparatus, and all necessary reagents. The
primary object of the course is to make the student practically familiar with
the normal appearance and characteristics of the structural elements of the
body, their groupings into tissues, and the disposition and relations of the
latter as making up the various organs of the body. As a means to this
end, students are carefully trained in the use of the microscope, and, as much
as practicable, in histological technique. The accuracy and readiness of the
knowledge acquired is tested for each student by individual practical examination,
in which he is required to name and describe at sight preparations
of tissues and sections of organs submitted to him; the usual written examination
must also be passed.

Text-Books Recommended.—Klein's, Piersol's, or Shaefer's Histology; the Professor's
Syllabus.

Embryology.—Optional attendance (without additional charge) upon the
course in Comparative Embryology is granted to medical students. The laboratory
is provided with a valuable set of preparations illustrating the embryology
of the lower vertebrates, and a collection of human embryos of
various stages from which anatomical and histological preparations are made.

Text-Books.—Shaefer's, Haddon's, or Minot's Embryology.