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be a matter requiring the/establishment of a separate department under its own professor. With the great developments in the treat- ment 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 Committ e 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 establishment of a Department of Pharmacology, in which research as well as teach- ing can be undertaken.

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following is a summary of the staff required for the Faculty of Medicine:-

Professors

Lecturers.

Junior and

Demonstrators

Part-time Lecturers

1

Anatomy

1

1

Physiology

1

3 (including

1 Nutrition)

Pathology

1

1 (Bacteriology,

Surgery

1

3 (2 General

Surgery and

1 arthopaedic) 3 (1 EarpNose

and Throat,

1 Anaesthetics

1 Radiology)

1 (Paediatrics)

Midwifery and

1

1

2

Gynaecology

Medicine and

1

3

Tropical Medicine

Social Medicine 1

2

and Public Health

Pharmacology

Medical

1

1

Jurisprudence

7

15

2

2 or 3

3

1

8 or 9