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MEDICAL SCIENCES

Courses in the medical sciences are offered primarily for medical students
who are deficient in these subjects and desire to make a review. All matriculants
pay a registration fee of $5.00 in addition to tuition and laboratory fees. No
courses will be given in any group if less than six students apply for the courses.
Applications should be sent in as far in advance as possible in order that it
may be determined whether or not the course will be given.

Group A.

Histology: First Term. Lectures, recitations and laboratory work. Daily
except Saturdays. Hours to be announced later. Tuition fee, $50.00. Laboratory
fee, $7.50. Credit, 2 session-hours.

Dr. Jordan.

After a brief survey of cytology, this course presents the microscopic anatomy of the
tissues and of the viscera.

Embryology: First Term. Lectures, recitations and laboratory work.
Daily except Saturdays. Hours to be announced later. Tuition fee, $40.00.
Laboratory fee, $5.00. Credit, 1½ session-hours.

Dr. Jordan.

Group B.

Anatomy: First Term. Lectures, recitations and laboratory work. Daily
except Saturdays. 2:00-5:00 P. M. Tuition fee, $60.00. Laboratory fee, $10.00.
Credit, 2 session-hours.

Dr. Bean

Dissections of parts of the human body to be arranged to meet the needs of students who
wish to review Anatomy I of the Medical Department, and others who wish to take a course
equivalent to Anatomy I.

Topographical Anatomy: First Term. Lectures, recitations and laboratory
work. Daily except Saturdays. 2:00-5:00 P. M. Tuition fee, $40.00.
Laboratory fee, $5.00. Credit, 1½ session-hours.

Dr. Bean.

This course is a review of Anatomy and consists of a systematic study of cross sections,
regional anatomy and applied anatomy.

Anatomy of the Human Nervous System: First Term. Lectures, recitations,
and laboratory work. Daily except Saturdays. 2:00-5:00 P. M. Tuition
fee, $40.00. Laboratory fee, $5.00. Credit, 1½ session-hours.

Dr. Bean.

A review of Anatomy II of the Medical School. This course consists of a laboratory
study of the anatomy of the human nervous system with study of gross dissections and microscopic
sections, similar to Anatomy II of the Medical Department.

Group C.

Biochemistry: First Term. Lectures, recitations and laboratory work.
Daily except Saturdays. 9:00 A. M.-1:00 P. M. Tuition fee, $60.00. Laboratory
fee, $10.00. Credit, 2 session-hours.

Dr. Chanutin.

A review course covering the general field of the subject as taught in the Medical
School. It is designed to cover the chemical structures and reactions of carbohydrates, lipins,
proteins and other compounds occurring in the body and in its secretions and excretions.
Special attention is given to the chemical physiology of digestion, metabolism and nutrition.
For admission the student must have completed the standard medical school entrance requirements.

Group D.

Physiology, Part I: First Term. Lectures, recitations and laboratory
work. Daily except Saturdays. Hours to be arranged later. Tuition fee, $30.00.
Laboratory fee, $5.00. Credit, 1½ session-hours.

Dr. Britton.

Fundamental consideration on voluntary and involuntary muscular reactions; nerve conduction;
the central nervous system; reflex activities; introduction to physiology of the special
senses.

Physiology, Part II: First Term. Lectures, recitations and laboratory
work. Daily except Saturdays. Hours to be arranged later. Tuition fee, $40.00.
Laboratory fee, $5.00. Credit, 1½ session-hours.

Dr. Britton.

The physiology of digestion; body fluids; blood and circulation; respiration; renal secretion;
regulation of body temperature; internal secretions; the special senses; the organism as
a whole.

Group E.

Bacteriology, Medical: First Term. Lectures, conferences, and laboratory
assignments. Daily except Saturdays. 8:30 A. M.-12:30 P. M. Tuition fee,
$50.00. Laboratory fee, $7.50. Credit, 2 session-hours.

Dr. Maxcy.

The fundamentals of bacteriologic technique are taught. Special emphasis is placed upon
the microorganisms which are of medical importance. The basis is laid for the study of infection
and immunity.

Group F.

Pathology: First Term. Lectures, recitations and laboratory work. Daily
except Saturdays. 9:00 A. M.-1:00 P. M. Tuition fee, $60.00. Laboratory fee,
$7.50. Credit, 3 session-hours.

Dr. Cash.

A rapid but comprehensive review of the course in General Pathology as taught in the
School of Medicine. The course consists of daily lectures and laboratory exercises paralleled
by demonstrations of gross and microscopical pathological material. To each student is issued
a loan collection of slides which he studies under supervision in the laboratory.

Group G.

Pharmacology: First Term. Lectures, recitations and laboratory work.
Daily except Saturdays. Hours to be arranged. Tuition fee, $50.00. Laboratory
fee, $10.00.

Dr. Waddell.

The following course has no equivalent in the regular session.

Group H:

Mental Hygiene: First Term. Fee, $15.00. University Hospital.

Dr. Wilson.

A course designed to study behavior problems in the pre-school and school child and of
the situations which produce such problems as well as the mental disease which often follows.

Special emphasis will be laid on the recognition and the handling of the problems in the
class room. There will be round table discussions and demonstration of these cases in the
Out-Patient Clinic where the student will be expected to act as a part-time clinical clerk.

Note.—This course will not be given if less than eight students enroll for it.