PRACTICAL COURSE. 
INTRODUCTORY. 
Each student should bring with him to class a pair of 
pointed scissors, a pointed pen-knife or scalpel, a pair of 
forceps and a magnifying lens. He will be lent a piece of 
weighted bark, a dissecting dish and pins from the School 
stores. These appliances are all that are necessary for the 
dissections that are described in the following pages, but any 
men who happen to have additional dissecting instruments 
should bring them, A couple of mounted needles can be 
very easily made by fixing big darning needles into little 
pieces of wood for handles. They are a specially useful ad- 
dition. So also is a thin steel knitting needle with rounded 
end, to use as a probe. The knitting needle should be heated 
in the fire and then allowed to cool slowly, as this enables it 
to be bent to the shape required. The scissors and knife 
should both be as sharp as possible. In the case of the 
scissors it is important that the blades should meet up to the 
ends when closed. Sharp-pointed nail scissors will do very 
well if regular dissecting scissors are not available. 
