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EXPERIMENTAL PHARMACOLOGY 



Students are warned not to buy the so-called "sets" of 

 dissecting instruments. Also do not buy a lot of unneces- 

 sary instruments. Students who have had human dissec- 

 tion will usually already possess most of the necessary 

 (and a good many unnecessary) instruments. 



Each student must be provided with a permanent note 

 book in which is written up a careful description of each 

 experiment performed. This note book should be well 

 bound, its dimensions should be about 7 3 /4 inches by 1014 

 inches, and it should contain about 150 pages. The paper 

 should be of good quality and all permanent notes must 



Fig. 43. Large moderately blunt-pointed dissecting forceps. 



Fig. 44. Needle holder. 



be written in ink. Avoid typewritten or loose leaf note 

 books. Either the original or blue print copies of all typ- 

 ical tracings obtained should be pasted in the permanent 

 note book and fully explained in the notes. It is urged that 

 notes be made brief, but strictly to the point. It requires 

 only a few paragraphs for a student who fully understands 

 an experiment to tell what ho did, how he did it, and 

 what his results show. A student should not hesitate to 

 admit that any given experiment was a failure, or that 

 part of his results or tracings are wrong. Such errors are 

 frequent and will lie understood at once by the instructor, 

 and it is exceedingly valuable to the student to be able to 



