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Second Year
Physiology: Lectures, conferences, and demonstrations, 5 hours weekly
during the first term, and 4 hours during the second term; laboratory work, 7
hours weekly during the first term, 3 hours weekly during the second term. In
the lecture course attention is drawn to the fundamental branches of the subject,
and the more difficult aspects are thoroughly discussed. Recent important physiological
contributions are evaluated, and the student is directed further to consult
various monographs and original papers.
The laboratory work consists of preliminary elemental experiments on the
neuromuscular system, followed by intensive courses in mammalian and in
human physiology. The latter are designed particularly to train students to
observe and record, and to interpret and make deductions from their results.
Suggestive outlines only are provided for the experimental studies. The course is
particularly devised to stimulate and correlate the student's consideration of the
activities of the organism as a whole. Emphasis is given to those branches of
physiology which should prove valuable in later work in medicine.
Dr. Britton, Dr. Corey and Assistants.
Pathology: 4 hours weekly during the first term; 12 hours weekly during
the second term, and 12 hours weekly during the third term. By a systematic
series of lectures, combined with demonstrations of both gross and microscopic
preparations, the various morbid conditions of the body are presented. In the
laboratory, under supervision, the student personally examines all of the gross
material and devotes considerable time to the study of the loan-collection of
slides with which he is provided.
In addition to this systematic portion of the course an attempt is made to
acquaint the students with fresh tissues and disease as seen at the autopsy table.
With this end in view the class is divided into small groups of students each of
which assists at a limited number of autopsies. Fresh tissues are demonstrated
during class hours and, whenever possible, autopsies are performed before the
entire class.
Dr. Cash, Dr. Casey, Dr. Scott and Dr. Shanklin.
Materia Medica: Lectures and recitations 3 hours weekly and laboratory
work 4 hours weekly, during the first three-fourths of the first term. A thorough
study is made of the sources, preparation, composition, properties and interactions
of medicinal substances to the end that they may be intelligently prescribed.
Special attention is paid to their standardization for purity and potency.
Prescription writing and incompatibility are dealt with in frequent practical
exercises. While the consideration of the more important preparations of the
Pharmacopeia and the New and Non-Official Remedies consumes the greater
portion of the allotted time, the course is concluded with a critical study of
many of the so-called patent medicines.
Dr. J. A. Waddell and Dr. Saunders.
Toxicology: Lectures and recitations 3 hours weekly and laboratory work
4 hours weekly, during the last quarter of the first term. A systematic review is
made of the pharmacological action of such chemic agents as are particularly
liable to cause injury to health or loss of life, special attention being given to
their quantitative effects. Practical instruction is given in the methods of isolating
and identifying. The treatment of poisoning is dealt with in detail.
Dr. J. A. Waddell and Dr. Saunders.
Pharmacology: Lectures, recitations and demonstrations 4 hours weekly
and laboratory work 9 hours weekly, during the second term. The physical and
chemical characteristics and the mode of action of representative drugs and other
attention is given to analysing and interpreting the results obtained in the laboratory.
Dr. J. A. Waddell, Dr. Saunders and Assistants.
Physical Diagnosis and Theory and Practice of Medicine: 3 hours weekly
during the second term and 4 hours weekly during the third term. Instruction
is given by didactic lectures, quizzes, presentation of selected clinical cases and
bedside study of physical signs. Special attention is given at the beginning of
the course to the study of the normal subject.
Dr. Flippin, Dr. Mulholland, Dr. Wood, Dr. Blackford and Dr. Swineford.
Surgery and Gynecology: 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of amphitheatre
clinic during the third term. An introductory course in surgery. Lectures cover
the subjects of wound healing, surgical bacteriology and general pathological
processes of surgical importance, such as tumors, and diseases of the general
systems of the body. Regional surgery is not included. In the amphitheatre
clinic there are presented illustrations of many types of wounds and the progress
of the process of healing with and without infection.
Dr. Lehman and Dr. Goodwin.
Clinical Diagnosis: 6 hours weekly during the third term. In this course
the student is made familiar with those laboratory methods which are helpful in
the diagnosis of disease. These include, among others, the examination of blood,
urine, sputum, gastric contents, feces, spinal fluid, exudates and transudates.
Dr. Bray.
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