TO THE TEACHER 



The Equipment. There should be a well-lighted room, 

 with tables two feet wide and four and a half feet long, for 

 two students to work together. The tables should be twenty- 

 nine inches high, and provided with two drawers. 



There should be an ample supply of water, soap, and towels, 

 so that the pupils may wash their hands at the close of the 

 work. It is very desirable to have warm water after dissect- 

 ing, and a small gasoline stove will heat water enough for 

 several large classes. If there is no convenient sink, a long 

 trough, made of tin or galvanized iron and stiffened by a board 

 casing, will serve very well. 



The teacher should take the utmost pains to have every- 

 thing connected with the dissecting work as neat as possible. 

 Remove all superfluous parts and scraps as soon as possible. 

 Many of the dissections may be made on large sheets of brown 

 paper, such as are used in the meat market. Each student 

 should be provided with a dissecting set, which ought to include 

 at least a scalpel, scissors, forceps, and blowpipe ; a cartilage 

 knife is also desirable for the rough work, to save the edge of 

 the scalpel. A more convenient form of blowpipe is made by 

 inserting a foot of rubber tubing between the mouthpiece and 

 the tip, as this is easier to manage, and if the student is work- 

 ing alone he can see what he is doing. A set of anatomical 

 models is almost indispensable for good work, but these cannot 

 take the place of dissection. Such models can be obtained of 



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