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MEDICAL BIOLOGY.
| PROFESSOR TUTTLE, | Mr. BAKER, |
| Dr. DAVIS, | Mr. GORDON, |
| Dr. SKEEN, | Mr. LYMAN. |
Under this title are grouped for convenience the lectures
in the courses described below, the whole forming a continuous
series of three lectures a week throughout the first
year of the Medical course. Each lecture is accompanied
by two hours of practical work in the laboratory illustrative
well lighted, and amply equipped; forty-eight desks are
provided with microscopes, accessory apparatus, and all
necessary reagents, and the class is divided into working
sections not exceeding that number; desks are assigned by
lot at the opening of the session, and apparatus issued as
needed from time to time. Each student is required to
provide himself with a set of instruments, and with slides,
covers, and labels for microscopical preparations; all other
appliances are provided by the laboratory without charge.
Comparative Anatomy.—The lectures of the first two
months are devoted to the discussion of the comparative
anatomy of vertebrates, the thoracic and abdominal viscera
being chiefly considered; the student, in the meantime,
dissecting a series of animals representative of the principal
subdivisions of the group. The objects of the course
are to give such fundamental morphological conceptions
and such general anatomical knowledge as shall pave the
way for the detailed and specific study of Human Anatomy;
to familiarize the student with the normal appearance of
healthy organs and tissues as seen immediately after
death; and to lay the foundation for the subsequent intelligent
study of Histology and Physiology. The dissections
are supplemented by demonstrations and the study of permanent
preparations illustrative of features of importance.
Text-Book. — None is required at present. Parker's Zoötomy is
recommended for laboratory use, and Wiedersheim's Comparative Anatomy
of Vertebrates (Parker's translation) for collateral reading.
Histology.—The lectures of the following five months
are devoted to the allied subjects of Histology and Histological
Anatomy. In the first part of the course the tissues
and their component elements are carefully examined, both
singly and in their primary aggregates, as are also those
organs which consist largely of one form of tissue. The
remainder of the course is devoted to an examination of
the more complex organs and systems of organs, their constituent
tissues and the relations between them being studied.
While the primary object of the course is the imparting of
the body, due attention is paid to the technique which is
necessary as a means to that end; students are therefore
carefully trained in the use of the microscope and in histological
processes, including the selection and preparation of
material, the making and mounting of sections, and their
subsequent study.
Text-Books.—Shaefer's Essentials of Histology; Piersol's Normal
Histology; Stöhr's Histology (Billstein's translation); the Professor's Elements
of Histology.
Embryology.—The courses in Anatomy and Histology
are followed by a course discussing the maturation, fertilization,
and the segmentation of the ovum; the formation
of the germ-layers; the embryo and fœtal appendages; and
the development of the tissues and the organs of the body.
While the final object sought is a clear conception of these
processes as they are known or believed to take place in
the human body, the whole subject is treated from the
comparative standpoint, as that best adapted to give intelligent
and comprehensive ideas thereof. The lectures are
accompanied by practical work in the laboratory on the
development of an amphibian and of the chick, and upon
mammalian embryos and their fœtal appendages at various
stages.
Text-Books.—Shaefer's Embryology (vol. I pt. I of the tenth edition
of Quain's Anatomy); Foster and Balfour's Elements of Embryology.
The attainments of the student in each of these courses
are tested by both written and practical examinations.
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