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SCHOOL OF BIOLOGY.

(HISTOLOGY, BACTERIOLOGY, AND EMBRYOLOGY.)

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-Books Recommended.—Klein's, Stirling's, or Schaefer's Histology; The Professor's
Syllabus.

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-Books Recommended.—Abbott's Principles of Bacteriology; Fraenkel's Bacteriology;
the Professor's Introduction to the Bacteria; Sternberg's or Crookshank's
Manual of Bacteriology.

Embryology.—Optional attendance (without additional charge) upon the
course in Comparative Embryology is granted to medical students The Laboratory
is provided with a valuable set of preparations illustrating the embryology
of the lower vertebrates, and a collection of human embryos of various
stages from which anatomical and histological preparations are made.

Text-Books.—Schaefer's, Haddon's, or Minot's Embryology.