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donation the Laboratory has been provided with an in- 

 striimentarium making it possible to give experimental 

 pathological courses, thus founding the physiological 

 section which no institution of general pathology can 

 dispense with. 



But a great deal still remains to be done. In the first 

 place, general pathology is not a special subject for exami- 

 nation. Further, the University is still without a/2 insti- 

 tution special arranged for the teaching of general pa- 

 thology. 



For a long time the laboratory has been endeavour- 

 ing to gain these two points so intimately connected. 

 Not till this is done can general pathology be said to 

 occupy its proper place in the curriculum as the main 

 subject round which all the other pathological branches 

 will have to be grouped. 



Owing to many causes the present moment appears 

 to be a turning point for the teaching of general patho- 

 logy in our University. 



In other countries also the position of general patho- 

 logy as a university subject is a burning question. For 

 that reason I think the present a suitable time to place 

 before the public the plan according to which we have 

 been working in this country, and our programme for 



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the future, which, I trust, it will be possible to realize. 



The number of universities that can boast of a special 

 chair of general pathology is not great. Of course, lectures 

 on the subject are delivered everywhere, but too often 

 the matter is divided between several teachers conducting 

 the instruction from quite different points of view. 

 Hardly any branch of medical study varies so much 

 as to its limits, or in the way in which it is regarded, 



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