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There has been considerable facility in museum study by addition of two
megascopes, 49 wet specimens and 27 lantern slides to the equipment of the
department.
Functioning of the Chemical Pathology section has completed the
organization of the laboratory, and investigations of most complicated cases are
now being undertaken as in any English laboratory. Additional equipments
like high range incubator, blood calculator, etc., purchased during the year
have facilitated investigations by economy of time and money.
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS.
1. Vaccine therapy in typhoid fever by Dr. B. N. Banerji, B.Sc., M.B.,
Lecturer in Chemical Pathology and Parasitology, published in the Patna
Journal of Medicine , Vol. VI, no. 2, April 1931.
2. The effect of dilution on the properties of an antiseptic by Dr.
S . K . G h o s h D a s t i d a r , M . B . , D . T . M . , a n d D r . T . N . S e t h , p u b l i s h e d i n t h e
Indian Journal of Medical Research, Vol. XVIII, no. 4, April 1932.
3. The place of calcium in modern medicine by Dr. D. R. N. Sahu,
Research Scholar, Patna University, published in the Patna Journal of
Medicine, Vol. VII, no. 1, 1932.
4. Calcium content of common dietary in India by Dr. D. R. N. Sahu,
published in the Indian Medical Gazette.
5. Some clues to the diagnosis of leprosy by Dr. S. P. Varma, published
in the Patna Journal of Medicine.
6. Normal blood chemistry in Indian (Behari) by Major A. N. Bose, M.D.,
F.B.C.P.E., etc.,I.M.S.
7. A study of reduction factor after prophylactic T. A. B. inoculation
(6 and 7 will be ready for publication shortly).
Physiology .—The teaching has been maintained on the usual high
standard, with advanced demonstrations on mammalian and human physiology.
During the year under report intensive research work has been carried
on with the help of an assistant employed under the auspices of the Indian
Research Fund Association, and a volume of communications on the work
has been sent to the Physiological Society of Great Britain for publication
in the proceedings of the Association.
In addition to this the following papers have been published from this
department :—
(1) Blood Glycosis. Biochemical Journal, Vol. XXV, 1931.
(2)
“ E x p e r i m e n t a l I s c h æ m i a : S e n s o r y , p h e n o m e n a f i b r i l l a r y t w i t c h i n g s
and effects on pulse, respiration and. blood pressure ”. Quarterly
Journal of Experimental Physiology, Vol. XXI, no. 3 of 1931.
(3) Chemistry of fibrillary twitchings. Journal of Physiology, 1931.
(4)
“ E f f e c t o f d i l u t i o n o n t h e l e t h a l p r o p e r t i e s o f p o i s o n s ” .J
o u r n a l
of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Vol. XLIII,
no. 3 of 1931.
(5)
“ The effect of dilution on the properties of an antiseptic ”. Indian
Journal of Medical Research, Vol. XVIII, no. of 1931.
Pharmacology.—Dr. P. C. Bay, the lecturer, held charge of the department
as the Professor, in addition to his own duties, for the whole of the session
under review with great difficulty.
Pharmacology now constitutes a separate subject for the part—one
of the Final M. B. B. S. Examination, and accordingly the first University
Examination in this subject was held on March 1931.
Practical demonstrations have been considerably facilitated by addition
to the departmental equipment of a kymograph with clock work movement.