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SCHOOL OF BIOLOGY.

(HISTOLOGY AND BACTERIOLOGY).

Professor Tuttle.

Normal Histology is taught by lectures accompanied by practical
work in the laboratory, which is amply equipped for the purpose.
The class is divided into working sections of thirty, that number of
desks being provided with microscopes, accessory apparatus, and all
necessary reagents. The primary object of the course is to make the
student practically familiar with the normal appearance and characteristics
of the structural elements of the body, their groupings into tissues,
and the disposition and relations of the latter as making up the
various organs of the body. As a means to this end students are carefully
trained in the use of the microscope and as much as practicable
in histological technique.

The accuracy and readiness of the knowledge acquired is tested for
each student by individual practical examination, in which he is required
to name and describe at sight preparations of tissues and sections
of organs submitted to him, together with the usual written examination.

Text-book.—Klein's Elements of Histology.

Bacteriology is taught in a similar manner, by lectures and practical
work in the laboratory. It is the object of the course to give to students
a clear idea of the biology of the bacteria; their affinities as plants,
their structure, and their physiology being considered as a basis for
the further discussion of their economic relations, their action as causes
of disease, and the methods resorted to for their manipulation. The
various processes of bacteriological technique are fully illustrated and
demonstrated in the laboratory. The work of the students comprises
special practice in those processes which are of peculiar value to the
practitioner as a means of diagnosis.

Text-book.—Abbott's Principles of Bacteriology.