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tion to this, ample provision is made for the use of the microscope 

 in urinary analysis, a course of twelve weeks being required in this 

 department and some forty microscopes being in daily use. 



Prof. Charles H. Stowell, of the University of Michigan, to 

 whom I am indebted for these facts, states that, but a small per- 

 centage of their graduates, owing to lack of funds, purchase micro- 

 scopes before leaving, but as soon as they get settled they are 

 anxious for an instrument. Encouraging letters certifying to the 

 value of the microscope are frequently received from the graduates 

 of this college. Since the connection of Professor Stowell with the 

 University over seventy-five compound microscopes have been added 

 to its laboratories, and over one hundred fine instruments are now 

 counted as the property of the University. Of these, sixty are for 

 the use of the medical students. For any intelligent person to claim 

 that this course of study would be other than beneficial to the 

 student, that he would not be better qualified to practice medicine 

 by reason of such a course, would be utterly ridiculous. 



*Prof. Huxley, in an address before the International Medical 

 Congress held in London, August, 1881, remarked that "The search 

 for the explanation of diseased states in modified cell life, the dis- 

 covery of the important part played by parasitic organisms in the 

 etiology of disease; the elucidation of the action of the medicament 

 by the methods of experimental physiology appear to me to be the 

 greatest steps which have been made toward the establishment of 

 medicine on a scientific basis." The microscope has been the pro- 

 genitor of this work to a great extent; in fact it could never have 

 been considered without it, and who will limit its work for the 

 future. 



Shall our schools and colleges prepare their graduates give 

 them at least an opportunity to know what a microscope is, start 

 them in a knowledge of its application to their needs in their re- 

 sponsible calling, fit them to undertake this work with the assurance 

 of success, which early training alone in this great field will secure; 

 or must we ever continue in original investigation with the micro- 

 scope, as secondary to our European neighbors .'' 



'See Transactions International Medical Congress. \^ol. s, p. lot. 



