APPENDIX B. 



On the general plan of a course in physiology and the 

 equipment of a laboratory. 



The following pages are reprinted from a report of the 

 committee on syllabus, representing tJie Association of Ameri- 

 can Medical Colleges. The committee was in session Feb. 

 /j'-/<?, 1896, Chicago. 



The course in physiology. 



The course in physiology should be continued through 

 two years and should be, in a general way, coordinated 

 with the course in comparative anatomy and general 

 biology and histology. By coordination in this connection 

 is meant the arrangement of the courses in such a way 

 that the student shall learn first the more fundamental and 

 general and then the more special. To teach the student 

 the physiology of the liver one year and the gross and 

 minute anatomy of that organ thenext year must be recog- 

 nized by all as an inversion of the logical order. To 

 teach the anatomy of an organ one year and its physiology 

 the next year puts the teachers of both these branches 

 at considerable disadvantage, and the chances are great 

 that the student will have a less clear comprehension of 

 the subject presented in this way than he would if the 

 interval elapsing between the study of the more general 

 branch and the more special branch be a short one. 



Every course in physiology should be accompanied 

 by laboratory exercises in which the student may fami- 



