Rush Medical College - Pulse Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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1DistoIogicaI ano llbathological laboratory The classes in Histology devote the first few weeks to the study of fresh teased tissues, as well as some of the commoner foreign substances occasionally found in specimens, as wool and cotton libres. When familiarity with the microscope has been attained, and a knowledge of elementary tissues. as tibrous tissues, bone, cartilage, blood, etc., the study of more complex structures is undertaken. Each member of the class mounts tifty specimens. These have been stained in bulk and cut in parafline. Many of these sections are from injected unstained tissues, and are utilized to teach the vessel distribution. In some double injection has been done, whereby arteries appear red and veins blue. These sections cover all the important organs and structures, and many of those of less importance. Instruction is so arranged that it shall go hand in hand with lectures on Physiology. ln this method function and minute anatomy are obtained together. The size of the classes tforty to sixtyj has so far prohibited further instruction in technique, but each class is shown apparatus and the methods used in the preparation of specimens. The course lasts throughout the year, each class working two hours a week. Drawing, while requested, is not made a special feature of the work. lt is valuable to impress the mental picture obtained. Especial stress is laid upon landmarks of different tissues, so that proficiency in the iden- tification of tissues can be obtained. All Freshmen are urgently requested to take the course in Histology the first year, as the early knowledge of minute anatomy is a valuable basis to many other branches of medicine. The work in microscopical Pathology, like that in Histology, extends throughout the year. Fifty sections from tissues that were imbedded unstained in celloiden are stained by each member of the classes and mounted. The method of staining is the double Haematoxylin and Eosin, with acid alcohol to destain. The first of these specimens are used to teach general pathology, a thorough systema- tized knowledge of this being the one object kept in view throughout the course. The latter part of the course comprises: 113 Examination of sections from special lesions that bear upon internal medicine, 14. tr., typhoid ulcer, unresolved pneumonia, etc. C23 The microscopical study of tumors, many varieties being examined. Q33 Microscopical urinalysis taken in con- nection with the study of morbid Histology of the kidney. No one is supposed to take Pathology unless well grounded in Histology. The laboratories are in charge of E. R. LE CHVNT, M. D., and D. D. BISHHP, M. D. assisted by J. C. VAN Xisys. V071 A. liRI2NNEckE, R963 T. H. PAGE, 'Q7, C. H. XV1L1.1Aus, '97, J. D. FREEMAN, '07, and Da. -I. C. Wicriaxis. A Y Y TN-L.1E2..5-fK,Y.w,V. v Y Ilbateria Ilbeoica iLab ratoryg The Materia Medica Laboratory was fully equipped by the college authorities for the session of 1894-95, and thereby one more step in teaching hy means of practical work was tal-:en by old Rush. There is desk room for sixty students, giving each a separate set of the apparatus neces- sary for the work to be done. A scale-table containing twenty prescription balances, each furnished with a set of dry and metric weights, has also been provided. Each member of the Freshman class works in the laboratory two hours per week through- out the term. The works consists of handling the prepared and crude drugs, thereby famil- iarizing the student with their physical propertiesg making some of the simpler pharmaceutical preparationsg writing prescriptions, thus giving practice in the proper form of a prescription, the official names and their proper abbreviations, incompatibilities of all kinds, compounding prescriptions of all classes. The laboratory instructors are I. A. PATTUN, B. S., M. D., as demonstrator, assisted by S. C. BEACH, M. D.: I. C. GILL,iil.D.1 E. B. Hl'T'C'HIIiS4bN,hl.D.1 Wu. R. PARKES, M. D., G. W. HALI.,hl.D.1 ami c. A. yum, M. D. 57

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LACCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCC1' KJ Ll SJ .J - Y - - , J33333333333333 33333333333333 33333 33333 33333333333 'Z Che issecting oom XYYYYYM E 5 Hli dissecting room at Rush College is one of the largest and 9' -4 best equipped in the country: the only one which can com- : 3 pare with it is the dissecting room of the medical de nrtlnent z 1 . . r . . D e 1' ,. ,4 of Columbia Lniversity. The room, forty-Five by one hundred feet. is on the top floor ot the new laboratory building: is entirely cut OH from the rest of the building, and is reached only by an open air iron balcony. The room is lighted from above. ln connection with the main room are several'smaller rooms for operative surgery on the cadaver, demonstrating, and cloak room and lavatory. The Hoor is asphalt, so laid as to provide for drainage. The dissecting tables are made of iron with glass top, an innovation which has proven a great success. XYhile the room is large enough to permit of having Fifty tables in service, as a rule, not more than forty are used. The walls are covered with anatomical charts, a large number being in oil. The room is in charge of Prof. Havax, and the demonstrators of anatomy, Drs. PARKER, Sruw, LE COUNT and XYEEKSQ it is open from 1 to 5. In connection with the anatomical department, and in the rear ofthe laboratory building, is a modern refrigerating plant and preparing room. In the good old days when it was necessary to obtain cadavers, when the dissecting was done by gas or candle-light, when the subject was so illy preserved that bad tobacco in an old pipe was a perfume, it was indeed an initiation when the student saw for the first time the dissecting room. Although a wise anatomical act, day-light dissections, refrigerated and well injected material, have robbed the dissecting of much of its old impressiveness, it still remains the student's initiation into the mysteries of medicine. 59