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accepted by authors like Samuel and Hallopeair. Samuel 

 seems to me to be on the whole the man who, in the most 

 successful way, has made the enormous matter of ge- 

 neral pathology accessible to students. But his Compen- 

 dium dcr allgemeinen Pathologic, Stuttgart 1880, which in 

 its time was too little used and too little appreciated, is 

 antiquated long ago. 



It will not even be difficult to draw the line between 

 general pathology as a branch of study and the neigh- 

 bouring subject, morbid anatomy. The teaching of 

 morbid anatomy has long ago taken a fixed form, 

 and is nearly everywhere organised, on Virchow's plan, 

 in postmortem work, demonstrations of postmortem 

 material and practical courses of pathological histo- 

 logy- 



The plan of an Institute for General Pathology accor- 

 ding to the principles stated above is the direct out- 

 come of these ideas. It should contain two departments. 

 One of these should be devoted to pathology of infections 

 diseases. In its equipment due consideration should be gi- 

 ven no less to animal parasites than to bacteria and fungi. 

 It should be provided both with a collection of pathologi- 

 cal anatomical preparations to illustrate those diseases 

 of animals which the students would have to deal with 

 in their laboratory work, and with the literary and car- 

 tographic works necessary for the study of epidemiology 

 and geographical pathology. The other department for 

 pathological physiology should, to all intents and pur- 

 poses, be arranged as a normal physiological laboratory 

 and equipped with aquariums and terrariums in the same 

 way as all modern zoological institutions are. 



In full conformity with these principles is the sketch 

 of a General Pathological Institute I have worked out, 

 and which is to form part of the great plan of hospitals 



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