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has been more readily accepted, and local or personal 

 circumstances can more easily influence the arrange- 

 ments at the different universities. Two circumstances 

 have proved especially mischievous to general pathology. 

 Firstly, its frequent annexation by morbid anatomy, 

 as the rule is in the Scandinavian countries and Ger- 

 many, the consequence being that a great stress is laid 

 by the teacher upon the anatomical sections of general 

 pathology at the expense of the physiological sections. 

 Secondly, the annexation of bacteriology by the chair of 

 hygiene, thus doing injustice to the pathology of infec- 

 tious diseases, removing it from its proper place. This 

 matter I shall return to presently. 



At this University the teaching of general pathology 

 has taken quite a special form consisting of nothing 

 but practical laboratory work comprised in a bacterio- 

 logical, a parasitological and an experimental pathologi- 

 cal course. No systematic teaching by means of lectures 

 has been organized till now, nor could it be to any 

 purpose in the present state of studies. As long as 

 general pathology is not a special subject for examina- 

 tion, any attempt to attract a great number of students 

 to any instruction of the kind is sure to fail. Not that 

 our students are lazy --on the contrary! It cannot be 

 denied that most of them are hard working; but they 

 are on the stretch, rushing from one lecture to another, 

 and in spite of their many years of study - - seven on 

 an average they have no time for anything but 

 what is absolutely necessary for their examination. A 

 small number of lectures and colloquia on general patho- 

 logy I started by way of experiment, did not prove a 

 great attraction. 



Matters are quite different when we turn to the 

 laboratory courses, especially with the bacteriological 



