September 20, 1894] 



NATURE 



51: 



1894-95, which begins next month. The table does not pretend 

 lo be complete ; nevertheless, it will serve to show the kind of 

 science subjects on which lectures are given to medical students 

 outside medical technology. The courses advertised are indi- 

 cated by crosses. 



It has not been considered necessary to tabulate courses only 

 given in two or three medical schools. Organic chemistry, 

 lor instance, is only down as a specific subject in the 

 lists of lectures at the London Hospital and the University 

 College Hospital. Probably the reason for this is that, at many 

 colleges, the lectures on chemistry embr.ice the organic and 

 the inorganic branches. Chemical physics is down in the 

 medical curricula of the University Coi'e^e, Mason College, 

 Cambridge University, and Yorkshire College, and physiological 

 chemistry is among the courses at St. George's Hospital and 

 Oxford University. Though psychological medicine is taught 

 in a number of c:>lleges, psychology only appears as the subject 

 'if lectures at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Charing Cross 

 Hospital, Edinburgh School of Medicine, and (Queen's College, 

 Cork. In the first two of these institutions, and also at 

 Oxford University, pharmacology is treated distinct from 

 practical pharmacy. It will be seen from the table that, in 

 Scottish medical schools, the students are instructed in natural 

 history, whereas this subject does not appear in the lists of 

 lectures in the medical schools of England and Ireland. 



Courses of lectures on bacteriology are advertised to 

 lake place at nine medical schools, but it mast not be 

 supposed that they are the only schools having facilities 

 for carrying on this study. The Lancet has something to say 

 on bacteriology and the medical curriculum. Our contemporary 

 points out that "it is now almost imperative that those 

 who are engaged in the teaching and study of medicine 

 should consider the position of bacteriology in medical 

 education with regard (a) to students proper, and ib) to 

 those students of more mature years known as postgraduates. 

 We think that the time has nearly come when it will be insisted 

 upan that every medical student should receive not only some 

 systematic instruction in the principles of bacteriology, but, 

 more important still, should be put through a thorough, if 

 short, course of practical laboratory instruction, in which the 

 theories propounded in the class-room may be clearly illus- 

 trated. . . . Many of the medical schools have alrealy recog- 

 nised this fact, and in London alone there are now several 

 well-equipped bacteriological laboratories where a thorough 

 course of instruction can be obtained by the medical student. 

 Guy's Hospital, University College Hospital, St. Bartholomew's 

 Hospital, for example, have all acquired special facilities for 

 carrying on the work ; but there is still much room for the more 

 general teaching of the subject. In the large university medical 

 schools, especially in Oxiord, Cambridge, Victoria, Durham, 

 Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and Glasgow, the subject is more or less 

 thoroughly taught, but not in all cases as practically as is 

 desirable." 



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