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The  New  Medical  Laboratories. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
July,  1904. 
macology,  in  which  departments  of  medicine  the  greatest  advances 
have  been  made  in  the  past,  and  may  be  predicted  for  the  future. 
"The  opening  of  these  laboratories  is  not  simply  of  local  but  of 
national  interest.  The  construction  of  the  building  has  occupied 
about  four  years,  and  has  cost,  exclusive  of  its  ground  and  equip- 
ment, in  the  neighborhood  of  $700,000.  The  erection  of  a  new 
medical  hall,  an  anatomical  building  and  auxiliary  buildings,  adjoin, 
ing  the  building  dedicated,  is  also  contemplated  in  the  near  future. 
These  with  the  present  hospitals  and  clinical  laboratories  will  form 
one  of  the  most  extensive  systems  of  buildings  devoted  to  the 
teaching  of  medicine  in  Europe  or  America. 
uThe  new  building  is  quadrangular  in  shape.  It  is  located  on  the 
south  side  of  Hamilton  Walk,  between  Thirty-sixth  and  Thirty- 
seventh  Streets,  on  the  site  of  the  old  Veterinary  Hall  and  Hospital. 
The  building  is  two  stories  in  height  above  a  high  basement,  and 
measures  337  feet  in  front  by  nearly  200  feet  in  depth.  The  long 
front  faces  north,  securing  a  maximum  amount  of  the  best  light  for 
laboratory  purposes.  Along  the  front  are  arranged  small  rooms  for 
research,  offices  for  professors  and  assistants  and  similar  purposes. 
These  open  into  private  corridors,  so  that  those  employed  in  these 
rooms  may  pursue  their  work  without  interruption  from  those  pass- 
ing through  the  main  halls. 
"  Perfect  lighting  of  all  the  laboratories  has  been  obtained,  the  size 
of  the  courts  and  the  height  of  the  front  building  insuring  good 
north  light  to  the  laboratories  of  pharmacy  and  pharmacodynamics 
on  the  first  floor,  and  to  the  large  laboratories  on  the  second  floor 
devoted  to  pathology,  where  microscopic  work  is  to  be  done — the 
north  front  of  these  rooms,  facing  on  the  courtyard,  being  almost 
wholly  of  glass  and  extending  higher  than  the  front,  so  that  steady 
north  light  will  be  thrown  to  the  back  of  the  room. 
"  The  basement  rooms  are  also  well  lighted.  Here  will  be  located 
locker,  recreation  and  toilet-rooms  for  the  students,  janitor's  quar- 
ters, rooms  for  practical  instruction  in  physical  diagnosis  and 
bandaging,  rooms  for  sub-section  teaching  in  physiology,  store- 
rooms, research-rooms,  etc. 
"The  first  floor  of  the  new  laboratories  is  to  be  devoted  to  physi- 
ology and  pharmacodynamics.  The  department  of  physiology  on 
the  first  floor  will  have  provided  one  large  room,  in  which  there  will 
be  ninety  cabinets  fully  equipped  with  such  apparatus  as  is  required 
