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PUBLIC HEALTH AND HYGIENE

Hygiene C1: 2 hours weekly during the first two terms and 1 hour weekly
during the third term. The course begins with a consideration of the main facts
of hygiene as they bear on the practice of medicine. It then proceeds to the
consideration of the natural history of contagious diseases, their modes of propagation

and methods of prevention. Instruction is also given in the proper location
and construction of habitations, hospitals, schoolhouses, etc., with special methods
of heating, ventilation and draining. Notice is taken of the special relations involved
in military and naval hygiene. In addition each student will have 18 hours
of field and laboratory work.

Dr. Maxcy.

Hygiene D1: Hygiene C1 prerequisite.—9 hours weekly of laboratory
and conference work during the second term. Immunology. Study of the problems
and methods of medical bacteriology and serology; the reactions of immunity
of experimental animals; the application of immunological principles to
the treatment and prevention of disease.

Dr. Maxcy.