control. Additional clinics are given in other hospitals in the city to which members of the faculty are attached.

While the greatest stress is laid upon laboratory work and the clinical teaching, it is recognized that the facts so obtained must be correlated and shown in their due relation to each other and to the science of medicine. To this end didactic lectures are maintained in certain branches, as they have been found necessary to give a systematic and comprehensive idea of the larger subjects in medicine. These lectures are followed by systematic and thorough quizzes, so that it may be certain that the students properly and thoroughly grasp the ideas presented by the lecturers.

The recitation and quiz work is made so complete that students do not need to employ private quizmasters.

The object sought throughout the courses is to thoroughly ground the students in the knowledge which is necessary to the practitioner of medicine. No particular attempt is made to graduate specialists in any subject. It is believed that the four years allowed are no more than sufficient time for the adequate preparation of the general practitioner. The policy adopted by the College is to give a comprehensive, wellgraded, and well-proportioned course-one that will adequately prepare the graduate to practice general medicine and meet the requirements of State Boards.

ORDER OF INSTRUCTION.

A general view of the subjects studied in each year is shown in the following table:

The greater part of the fourth year is devoted to clinical work in the hospitals. During this year, however, general instruction is also given in Mental Diseases, Neurology, Dermatology, Ophthalmology, Laryngology, and Otology. Not less than 1,000 hours of clinical work are required.

CLASSIFICATION OF STUDENTS.

Students are divided into four classes, according to their proficiency and the time spent, viz: first year, second year, third year, and fourth year. Students cannot advance to a higher class with more than one major condition. Students failing in any subject or subjects may be permitted at the next examination period a re-examination in the subjects in which they fail. The Faculty may dismiss any student from the school if in its judgment such student be deemed an unsuitable person, intellectually or otherwise, for the profession of medicine.

Optional Five-Year Course.

Since the session of 1904-05 a five-year optional course has been offered for the benefit of students. Students in this course take their subjects with the regular four-year classes, but as they take fewer subjects each year, they are able to devote more time to each study.

The first-year course in Anatomy is given in a series of lectures, demonstrations, recitations from text-books, and practical laboratory work. The lectures are illustrated by lantern slides, models, and diagrams. The student is required to dissect satisfactorily the lateral half of a cadaver. Throughout the course every opportunity is taken to emphasize the application of anatomy to the practice of medicine in all its departments.

Osteology and Syndesmology are taught by recitations and demonstrations at the beginning of the course, preparatory to the more advanced studies in Anatomy.

In the second year a course in Topographical Anatomy is given, in which recitations and laboratory demonstrations are used to thoroughly

familiarize the student with the subject. In the fourth year a course is given in the general application of Anatomy to Medicine and Surgery. In this way a thorough preparation in general and applied anatomy is given.

H. W. LAWSON, M.S., M.D..... Professor of Histology and Embryology CLARA S. LUDLOW, Ph.D.. ...Instructor

Instruction is given in the care and use of the microscope and in the preparation of tissues for microscopical examination, and a systematic study is made of the minute structure of the tissues and organs of the body, the laboratory work being supplemented by recitations.

The course in Physiology consists of lectures, recitations, conferences, demonstrations, and laboratory exercises, during the second half of the first year. The lectures cover all the important facts and theories

regarding bodily functions, and are illustrated by diagrams, models, and prepared specimens. Recitations are held on assigned parts of the text-book. Conferences are held on special physiological topics, and for these exercises each student is required to prepare one thesis during the semester. In the laboratory each student performs a number of experiments on blood, on the circulation, on digestion, on the general functions of muscle and nerve, on the nervous system, and on the special senses. The student is required to make and keep records of the experiments, and these are criticised by the instructors. The class is divided into sections so that each student receives a large amount of personal attention. In the second year a series of exercises is held in which special emphasis is laid on the relation of normal physiological function to the disturbances of function in disease, and upon the physiological action of drugs. It is intended in this way to bring the work of the Physiological Laboratory and other exercises into closer relation with the succeeding courses in Pathology, Therapeutics, and General Medicine.

CHARLES E. MUNROE, Ph.D..... Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology EDWARD G. SEIBERT, M.D.. ....Associate in Chemistry and Instructor in

THOMAS M. PRICE, Ph.D..
OTIS D. SWETT, B.S...

Ophthalmology . Instructor in Biochemistry Instructor in Chemistry

General Chemistry. A series of illustrated lectures accompanied by recitations, laboratory work, and exercises, on theoretical, inorganic, organic, and technical chemistry.

Organic Chemistry. A series of lectures, laboratory work, and recitations on the acyclic and cyclic hydrocarbons and their derivatives, with special reference to physiology and medicine.

Physiological Chemistry. A series of lectures, laboratory work, and recitations on the proximate principles of the human body.

Biochemistry. A laboratory course in the chemical examination of some of the chief foodstuffs, the tissues and fluids of the body, and the products of certain organisms; also the isolation of the digestive enzymes and a study of their action in vito. DR. PRICE.

Clinical Chemistry. A thorough course is given in which material from the University Hospital and Dispensary is utilized to show the practical application of this subject in medicine.

Noble P. Barnes, M.D... . . . . . . Associate Professor of Materia Medica

HENRY R. ELLIOTT, M.D..
WALTER H. MERRILL, M.D..

and Therapeutics .Associate in Pharmacology .Instructor in Electro-Therapeutics

Second year. (1) Lectures upon Materia Medica, including a demonstration of drugs and their preparations. (2) Recitations upon the preparations, their doses, and the various antidotes for poisons. (3) Practical exercises in prescription writing. (4) Demonstrations of drugs.

Third year. (1) Systematic lectures upon the physiological action of drugs and their effects in health and disease, their therapeutic uses, and their methods of administration. (2) Lectures and section demonstrations in electro-therapeutics. (3) Prescription writing, in which the students are given hypothetical cases for which to prescribe, the prescriptions being reported before the class for criticism and discussion.