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PATHOLOGY.
| Adjunct Professor Davis, | Mr. Wilson, |
| Dr. Skeen, | Mr. Fox. |
The principles of General and Surgical Pathology are discussed by
lectures and illustrated in the laboratory. The processes of disease
are studied in detail, with the unaided eye and with the microscope,
upon selected specimens.
Instruction is given in the method of conducting an Autopsy, in
which the object of preserving for future investigation desirable parts
is kept particularly in view. This involves pathological technic, in
which students receive a thorough drill and are allowed to retain the
preparations they make.
Practical exercises are given in Clinical Diagnosis, in which examinations
of blood, sputum, urine and faeces are required. Each student
has also to recognize by the aid of the microscope the nature of
tumors submitted to him, as a distinct test in addition to the regular
written examination covering the entire work of the course. Fidelity
to the laboratory work is an indispensable condition of success.
Under the study of Infections the Bacteria concerned are considered
in detail and made the subject of investigation in the laboratory,
which is equipped with approved modern apparatus.
A series of lectures upon the symptoms and therapeutics of Surgical
Diseases follows closely the course upon General Pathology.
In the third year Special Pathology is taken up and illustrated by
appropriate laboratory exercises, in which the lesions of the chief
diseases of each system are carefully studied.
Text-Books.—The Professor's Syllabus; Stengel's Text-Book of Pathology;
Warren's Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics; Abbott's Principles of
Bacteriology.
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