APPENDIX 



EXPERIMENTAL WORK IN PHYSIOLOGY IN HIGHER 

 SCHOOLS 



1. The Experimental Method of Instruction. Every experienced 

 teacher knows that pupils gain a far better knowledge and keep up 

 a livelier interest in any branch of science, if they are able to see 

 with their own eyes and to do with their own hands that which serves 

 to illuminate and illustrate the particular branch of science in which 

 they are engaged. 



The experimental method of instruction rivets the attention and 

 arouses and keeps alive the interest of the young student ; in 

 fact, it is the only true method of cultivating a scientific habit of 

 study. 



2. Experimental Work in Physiology in Elementary Schools. 

 Unlike other branches of science taught in elementary schools from 

 the experimental point of view, the study of physiology has its limi- 

 tations. The scope and range of such experiments is necessarily 

 extremely limited compared with what may be done with the costly 

 and elaborate apparatus of medical laboratories. 



The study of anatomy and physiology is based upon the system- 

 atic and painstaking dissection of the dead human body and of the 

 lower animals, together with experiments upon living animals. This 

 plan of research and study very properly is not permitted in elemen- 

 tary school work. Experiments upon the living human body and the 

 lower animals, now so generally depended upon in our medical and 

 more advanced scientific schools, for obvious reasons can be per- 

 formed only in a crude and quite superficial manner in high, and 

 normal schools. 



3. Importance of Experiments in Physiology in Higher Schools. 

 While circumstances and regard for certain proprieties of social life 

 forbid a range of experiments in anatomy and physiology such as is 



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