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HISTOLOGY.

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.

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.