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ANATOMY.
Professor Whitehead.
Associate Professor Jordan.
Mr. Waddell.
Mr. Smart.
The work 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 1.—Six hours weekly until November 1st; twelve hours
weekly from November 1st to the end of the winter term of the first year.
This course begins with a systematic study of the bones, on the completion
and thorax, or the lower extremity and abdomen) is assigned
to each student for dissection and study. For this purpose each cadaver
is considered as composed of four parts; on the completion of
this course and Anatomy 3 each student has dissected a lateral half of
the body. 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 2.—Six hours weekly during the spring term of the first
year.—This course consists in a laboratory study of the anatomy of the
central nervous system carried out in considerable detail. The gross
anatomy of the spinal cord and brain is first considered, on the completion
of which sections of the more important regions are studied
carefully with the aid of the microscope. For the purposes of the
course the laboratory is well equipped. Fresh brains are obtained each
year from the dissecting material of the department; and several excellent
series of sections of the cord and brain both of infants and
adults stained by the Weigert-Pal method are thoroughly used. The
laboratory work is supplemented by recitations and occasional lectures.
Dr. Whitehead.
Anatomy 3.—Ten hours weekly from October 1st through the fall
term and fourteen hours weekly during the winter term of the second year.
This course is the continuation of Anatomy 1, and consists of the
systematic dissection and study, by essentially the same methods, of
the parts not studied during the first year. Mr. Waddell.
Histology.—Three lectures or recitations and nine hours of laboratory
work weekly during the fall and winter terms of the first year. 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.
A record of seventy per cent. in this course is required for admission
Dr. Jordan and Mr. Smart.
Embryology.—Nine hours weekly during the spring term of the first
year. The laboratory work (six hours weekly) is accompanied by lectures,
recitations, and the study of models and text-books. The course
aims 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.
Finally, the fetal membranes and their relations to the fetus and
uterus are studied in their variations among the amniota. Dr. Jordan
and Mr. Smart.
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