Should comparative anatomy be included in a medical course? / by Burt G. Wilder.

  • Burt Green Wilder
Date:
1877
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Credit: Should comparative anatomy be included in a medical course? / by Burt G. Wilder. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    time is devoted to the sciences and to laboratory practice, in- cluding drawing.' SUMMAET OF THE COURSE IN NATURAL HISTORY AT THE CORNELL UNI. VERSITY. REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION. 1. English grammar. 2. Arithmetic. 3. Algebra through quadratics. 4. Plane geometry and trigonometry. 6. Latin (Allen's Reader ). 6. Greek (elementary). 1. Physiology (elementary). 8. Elementary French or German. Four Years'' Course. Exercises. Actual hours. 552 662 282 502 1998 546 1365 Total Studies for general Cul/ure. Eiercises. French and German 352 English language and rhetoi'ic 140 History of science ... 24 Free-hand drawing 36 Total 552 ' It is to be hoped that, ere long, children sliall learn to draw before they write; and that the practical value of the ability to make an outline diagram will be more fully recognized by not only naturalists but physicians, if only as an auxiliary to jyractice. The patieut desires to learn where his trouble lies, and in what it consists. He is too ill, perhaps, or too anxious, to under- stand the language of the physician, even thougli the latter be clear in his idea and his expression. But a simple drawing may be intelligible to almost any one; and he who can make the drawing is understood, and, consequently, appreciated. ^ An exercise requires two and a lialf hours of actual work.
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