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Title: Historical sketch of the University of Maryland, School of medicine (1807-1890), with an introductory chapter, notices of the schools of law, arts and sciences, and theology, and the department of dentistry, and a general catalogue of medical alumni
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, 1843-1913 University of Maryland. School of medicine
Subjects: Schools, Medical -- history Maryland
Publisher: Baltimore : Press of I. Friedenwald
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ining the hospital on Lombard street, especiallyerected for their accommodation. The Infirmary receives the sickforeign seamen and immigrants who arrive in port and thus givesthe students opportunities to observe diseases of foreign countriesand other climates. The city also supports 25 beds in the hospitalfor the use of its poor. The clinical study of Obstetrics (as statedabove) is amply provided for in the in- and out-door departments ofthe Free Lying-in Hospital, where instruction is thoroughly andsystematically given by the Demonstrator of Obstetrics. The facilities for practical instruction are being constantly devel-oped to meet the higher demands of the day. The advantagesafforded by a sister institution for laboratory instruction in Chemistry The Sisters of Mercy who left at the close of 1889 had been in charge foreight years ; previous to that, with the exception of a year or so of lay nursing,the Sisters of Charity had always directed the domestic affairs of the institution.
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JOHN NO LAND MACKENZIE, M. D. Clinical Professor of Diseases of the Nose and Throat. FIFTH PERIOD. I53 and Physiology are recognized in this community, and many of thestudents at the University of Maryland have availed themselves ofthem before entering upon the medical course. There is no com-pulsory laboratory course in Chemistry, but the Chemical Labora-tory of the University is open daily for the use of such students aswish to take special courses in chemical manipulation under theDemonstrator of Chemistry. Courses of laboratory instruction,including the simpler operations of chemical analysis, chemical exam-ination of urine, etc., are also gifen to undergraduate students freeof charge for three months after the close of the regular session. Pathological Anatomy is taught practically in weekly demonstra-tions by Dr. Mitchell, who finds an abundance of material in thedead-houses of the Infirmary and Bay View Hospital. The dis-secting rooms are open daily till 10 P. M. under the thre

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