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a theater or lecture room, a library, a museum and a 

 laboratory. The school commenced with a teaching 

 force of seven, 10 medical apprentices and 11 native 

 medical pupils. Private students were first admitted 

 in 1838. They obtained, in common with government 

 students, a free education. In 1851 it became a college, 

 and in 1857 it was placed in the list of affiliated insti- 

 tutions. The buildings were altered and enlarged in 

 1867. In 1885 separate anatomic buildings were erected, 

 to which were added a theater with a dissecting room 



Fig. 38. — Another view of Madras Medical College and Govern- 

 ment General Hospital. 



for the pupils of the hospital assistant department and 

 a museum in 1887-88 (Fig. 38). Separate buildings 

 for biologic and hygienic laboratories followed. In 

 1875 the college admitted on its rolls three new classes 

 of students — viz., candidates for the degree of licenti- 

 ates in medicine and surgery, for the new grade of civil 

 apothecary, and female students. The system of free 

 education for the students of the college department was 

 abolished a year before this department had been closed, 

 in order to allow the professors to devote themselves 

 to the teaching of subordinates for the service of the 



