22. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
reported to have worked well and successfully during the year as Clinical Clerks in
the General Hospital, to which they were attached.
On the whole, the Professors and the Principal are to be congratulated on the
success which has attended their efforts in imparting medical instruction to Female
students in conjunction with Male students—a stage still unattained in the sister
Presidencies of Bombay and Bengal. The Acting Principal reports that the
Principals of the Medical Colleges in the other Presidencies have been in corre-
spondence with him in view to institute similar female classes there. The example
of Mrs. Scharlieb will, doubtless, have a favorable effect on the education of women
in medicine in the country generally.
The suggestion made by the Acting Principal that female students of the Second
Department should also attend a course of lectures of the Professor of Midwifery,
should be brought before the College Council and the result reported.
9. The Professor of Anatomy suggests that arrangements should be made to
admit of students working for three years in the dissecting room instead of only
two as at present ; but the Acting Principal appears to have shown conclusively
that such an extension is neither practicable nor necessary, the students being
fully occupied during the first two years of their study and their working hours
being already as long as they can well be, whilst it would appear that the study
of Practical Anatomy has not suffered by the present arrangement, " because the
dissection of bodies is now spread over a longer period, and because students of
the class who are not actually dissecting at the time, attend the dissecting room
almost daily for demonstration by the Professor and his Assistants on portions
already dissected."
The proposal to have an additional Demonstrator of Anatomy instead of the
four Assistant Demonstrators who are students should, as observed by the Principal,
lie over for another year till further experience has been gained of the present
system.
10. In regard to the opinion expressed by Professor Maitland, that Materia
Medica and Therapeutics should be taught during the second year, the Principal
admits the necessity for the change and proposes to place Materia Medica along
with the second year's subjects, and arrange for students getting, in addition, an
elementary training in the subject during the first summer. This question will be
shortly brought forward and decided in connection with the changes in the curri--
culum now under consideration.
11. It is brought to notice that Professor Drake-Brockman was not in a position
to instruct the full complement of students to be trained by him owing to the
insufficiency of the supply of Microscopes, Apparatus and Chemicals in the College.
The Government will be requested to move the Secretary of State to expedite the
supply of the articles indented for in June last (vide G.O., dated 21st June 1883,
No. 3490, Military).
12. Dr. Keess advocates strongly the advancement of instruction in Practical
Physiology and Pathology so as to keep pace with the times, and the reasons given
by him for improving the character, and extending the scope of instruction in
these important subjects are fully endorsed.
13. The Principal proposes that the Primary Examination should take place at
the end of the second Summer Session instead of at the close of the second Winter as
now approved by Government. The change seems necessary in the circumstances
stated, and the sanction of Government will be requested for its being carried into
effect.
14. It is reported that a systematic plan of Clinical instruction in the wards
was carried out during the year, apparently for the first time. Judging from the
description given of it in the report, the instruction cannot fail to be of the greatest
possible advantage to the student and this improvement is due to the care and
attention bestowed on the matter by Dr. Keess. He points out that while his
position in the General Hospital enables him to supervise thoroughly the Clinical
instruction imparted in that institution, that given at the Lying-in Hospital and
Eye Infirmary is practically beyond his observation. It seems desirable that
the head of the Medical College, who is responsible for the efficient instruction