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their part much may be accomplished with a few intelligent, if not totally illiterate, helpers, even though they be untrained to start with; but if starved in this respect, so that every routine procedure has to be dolorously, personally performed, the de- partment is only too apt to sink to the easier level of uninspired teaching and dulled routine. A University laboratory of Pathology sinks or swims by its research activities, and its teaching success is commensurate thereto. Pathology is so essentially a living language. When it becomes a "dead one," paradoxical though it sound, its value to Medicine is largely lost.
L. J. DAVIS,
Professor of Pathology.
subjects must again be seriously considered, for the time has come when it cannot be faithfully said that the teaching is adequate.
The Department of Gross Anatomy is effectually prevented from being fully developed by the fact that it is shared with the Department of Surgery. The separation of the two departments should be carried out as soon as possible.
No publications were put out from the department during the year.
Work is being carried out in the determination of racial difference in cerebral structure and in the arterial supply of the cerebral cortex. Many papers on these subjects are in various stages of completion. During 1932 the Professor of Anatomy will be in England on long leave when it is hoped that a num ber of papers will be published.
JOSEPH L. SHellshear.
DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY.
Staff J. L. Shellshear, D.s.o., M.D., ch.M. (Professor of Anatomy).
R. J. Wong, M.B., ch.м. (Tutor in Anatomy).
E. W. Kirk, M.D., ch.B., F.R.C.S.E. (Demonstrator of
Anatomy).
Teaching :-
The work of the Department of Anatomy comprises the teaching of medical students in the second and third years of the medical curriculum. Special courses are given in Histology, Embryology, Neurology and General Anatomy.
There is strictly speaking no Department of Embryology and Histology. The teaching is only made possible by the use of microscope slides brought out from England in 1922 and supplemented by slides obtained through the courtesy of the Professor of Histology in Sydney. Many of these slides are showing signs of wear and tear and teaching is carried out under considerable difficulty.
There is no laboratory for Histology and the work of teach- ing is only made possible by using the laboratory for practical Physiology. The condition of affairs in the teaching of these
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DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY.
Staff:-L. T. Ride, M.A., M.B., B.ch. (Oxon), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.,
(Professor of Physiology, late Demonstrator of Physiology and Demonstrator of Pharmacology Guy's Hospital, London).
S. Y. Wong, M.SC., Ph.D., (Assistant to Professor of
Physiology, and Lecturer in Pharmacology).
The Department provides instruction in Physiology and Pharmacology for students in the Second and Third years of their medical course, Junior Physiology including Biochemistry, Biophysics and Experimental Physiology being taught in the second year, and Senior Physiology including Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology in the third year.
The numbers in the Senior class were 20 in the Spring Term and 15 in the Autumn Term, and those of the Junior class were 26 in the Spring Term and 28 in the Autumn Term, while 21 took Pharmacology in the Spring Term and 22 in the Autumn Term.
The work in the Department during this year has on the whole been slightly more satisfactory, this being due to the fact
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