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the greatest importance to medical training. The teaching 

 of pathology of infectious diseases is only partly ac- 

 complished by means of a bacteriological course; it re- 

 quires, as a necessary supplement, practical laboratory 

 work with the animal parasites, even though, by a bold 

 extension, Bacteriology is made to embrace the sporozoa. 

 Furthermore such parasitological classes will necessarily 

 lead to incursions into the provinces of tropical diseases 

 and geographical pathology, and there is every reason 

 to give the students an idea, at least, of these impor- 

 tant chapters of animal and vegetable geography, that 

 they have neither time nor occasion to enter into more 

 thoroughly during their studies. 



However great may be the value attributed to I he 

 two above-mentioned courses, both of which have their 

 starting point in etiology, pathological physiology ought 

 to be the central point in the teaching of general patho- 

 logy. 



I have already explained the local circumstances which, 

 at the University of Copenhagen, made it necessary to 

 begin with bacteriological instruction. The external con- 

 ditions for adding practical work in animal parasites 

 were rather favourable. This was far from being the 

 case with pathological physiology. Both premises and 

 materials were wanting. Being of opinion that it 

 would not be right to put off any instruction of the kind 

 till an Institution for General Pathology had been estab- 

 lished I tried to procure the necessary equipment in a 

 private way. I succeeded in making the Board of the 

 ,,Julius Skrike Fond" feel an interest in the matter, and 

 by a donation they enabled the Laboratory to obtain 

 physiological instruments sufficient for ten students and 



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