 | The University of Virginia record February, 1908 |  |
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.
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