JI 



the syllabus. It is a different thing when the courses 

 are arranged for a limited number of voluntary workers. 

 That should give the more advanced and zealous students, 

 who could find the time for and would be glad of such 

 a course, the feeling that at our University the medical 

 students were still enjoying some of that freedom in 

 study'' which, on all sides, is laid down as a principle, 

 but can scarcely be said to exist in practise any longer, 

 because of the too many years and subjects demanded 

 by the curriculum. 



It is necessary, of course, that when arranging such 

 an experimental course of pathological physiology one 

 should select one of the chief subjects of pathology as 

 a nucleus for practical work, round which experiments 

 taken from various other domains might group themsel- 

 ves. The physiologist will, as a rule, choose the phy- 

 siology of the nerves and muscles as the main object 

 of this practical work in normal physiology, and if we 

 are to go by the elementary text-books on practical phy- 

 siology G ) there is apparently unanimity on the subject. 

 But whether one shares this view or not and I for one 

 do not share it - it is quite certain that when it is a 

 question of a course of pathological physiology the choice 

 must be different, and in my opinion there could be no 

 doubt but that the theory of the morbid changes in the 

 circulation and the blood must be the main subject. 



To give some idea of the form and extent of the 

 practical pathological course adopted here, I add the 

 following list of experiments which the students are ex- 

 pected to perform: 



1. Preparation of loci electi for investigations on the 

 circulation of the frog [web, tongue, lung, mesentery]. 



2. preparation and investigation of the heart, blood 

 and bone marrow of frogs. 



14 



