TEACHING PARASITOLOGY 
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The student following his completion of parasitology and of 
studies such as microbiology, physical diagnosis, therapeutics, and 
sanitary science should be prepared to take up in theory and prac- 
tice and clinics every phase of parasitism, and should be able to 
understand and carry out methods of clinical diagnosis, prevention 
and treatment. 
To summarize, the man teaching parasitology should cover all 
phases of the subject in more or less detail as outlined above with 
the exception of the clinical symptoms, treatment and prevention. 
In the case of the latter the teacher of Parasitology will in many 
instances find that the symptoms and lesions are so connected and 
associated that they must be discussed together. Again, preven- 
tion is so completely dependent in many cases upon a' thorough 
knowledge of the life history that in order to stimulate the student 
to the importance of knowing the life history, the fundamental 
principles of prevention must lat least be mentioned. On the other 
hand, the teacher of the study. Theory and Practice (medicine), 
should take up and emphasize the symptoms of parasitic disease, 
the treatment and methods for prevention and be held responsible 
for the final rounding out of the student’s knowledge of this phase 
of the subject; in short he should deal with these points the same 
as he does with identical points in other diseases. The teacher of 
Theory and Practice should take up any or all phases of parasit- 
ology that may help to make the diagnosis and treatment of in- 
dividual cases and the handling of outbreaks practical and success- 
ful. He should give a general summary of all phases of the sub- 
ject, and fix the important and essential points in the student’s 
memory so that they will remain . forever a usable part of his 
knowledge of diseases of domestic animals. 
Department of Zoology and Entomology 
Iowa State College 
