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in  the  practical  exercises  in  physiology  carried  on  by  the  students. 
Three  rooms  have  been  especially  constructed  and  equipped  for 
aseptic  operations  on  the  lower  animals,  one  of  them  being  a  prepara- 
tion room  for  the  operators,  another  a  preparation  room  for  the 
animals  and  another  for  operating.  These  will  be  equipped  with 
the  most  modern  appliances,  so  that  operations  may  be  carried  on 
under  the  most  favorable  conditions  known  to  modern  surgery.  In 
the  north  front  are  a  number  of  small  rooms  which  have  been  set 
apart  for  the  instructor  and  his  assistants  for  instruction  in  advanced 
physiology,  etc.  A  well-equipped  shop  has  been  provided  for  the 
construction  and  repair  of  apparatus.  In  the  east  wing  are  a  num- 
ber of  rooms  for  sub-section  instruction  in  special  departments  in 
physiology — digestion,  circulation,  respiration,  calorimetry,  nerve- 
muscle,  special  senses,  etc.,  respectively.  There  has  also  been  pro- 
vided a  photographic  dark-room  and  an  adjoining  room  for  projection 
and  other  optic  apparatus  of  the  greatest  importance  in  the  making 
of  diagrams,  charts,  lantern  slides,  etc. 
"  The  department  of  pharmacology  has  also  been  provided  for 
on  the  first  floor.  This  contains  a  large  laboratory  for  practical 
pharmacodynamics,  a  large  laboratory  for  practical  pharmacy,  a 
museum,  a  library  and  various  rooms  for  the  instructor  and  his 
assistants  for  research  work,  etc. 
"  The  second  floor  will  be  devoted  exclusively  to  pathology,  with 
temporary  accommodations  for  a  number  of  the  professors  of  other 
departments  until  the  completion  of  future  building  operations, 
rendering  possible  the  final  transfer  of  the  entire  medical  school  to 
buildings  adjacent  to  the  present  new  building.  An  examination  of 
the  plans  will  reveal  the  general  purposes  of  the  floor.  Aside  from 
the  provisions  for  lecture-rooms,  the  chief  purpose  of  the  plan  of 
operation  and  construction  looks  to  laboratory  instruction.  The 
entire  north  front  of  the  building  (with  the  exception  of  the  tempo- 
rarily arranged  private  rooms  for  various  professors  and  the  general 
pathological  office)  is  devoted  to  laboratories  for  advanced  students 
in  experimental  pathology  and  pathological  bacteriology  and  the 
special  research  and  assistants'  rooms.  The  east  wing  accommo- 
dates the  laboratory  of  advanced  pathological  histology  and  a 
seminar  and  journal  room ;  the  west  wing  is  occupied  by  the  patho- 
logical museum,  the  gross  morbid  anatomy  demonstration  room,  a 
room  for  museum  preparation,  photographic  rooms  and  rooms  for 
