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would place it manifestly among the major subjects and would be a matter requiring the establishment of a separate department under its own professor. With the great developments in the treatment of disease by synthetic drugs, the necessity for the study of the pharmacological action of drugs is very great, if treatment of disease is to be on a logical instead of an empirical basis. While the Committee has not included a professor in this subject amongst the staff proposed, it feels that the minimum necessity is a full-time lecturer in the subject and recommends, for the consideration of the University, the early establish- ment of a Department of Pharmacology, in which research as well as tench- ing can be undertaken.

A list is attached of the staff proposed for the Faculty of

Medicine:-

Professors:

Lecturers:-

7. (Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Medicine,

Surgery, Midwifery and Gynaecology, Social Medicine and Public Health) against existing 6: (Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Medicine, Surgery, Midwifery & Gynaecology, and a part-time professorship of Public Health).

It is proposed to increase the number by two full-time lecturers, one for Nutrition- and one for Social Medicine. The staff · of lecturers and part-time lecturers will depend in part on the availability of specialists in private practice.

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