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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
Professor R. Harvey, F.R.C.S., F.C.S., joined the college as an assistant in 1862
and rendered efficient aid to those under whom he worked. He was appointed to
the chair of Medical Jurisprudence in 1875, an appointment to which he did great
credit. By his death the college has lost an experienced teacher who exercised
much influence, for good, over the students.
Honorary Surgeon W. Hamilton, F.C.S., joined the college as an assistant in
1867. By his death the college has lost the services of a careful and efficient teacher.
K. Ramasawmy Naidu, an exceedingly promising student of the M.B. class
in his third year of study, to the great regret of all, succumbed to a low form of
fever attended with brain symptoms. He was the holder of the Maharajah of
Cochin's scholarship.
Student Graham joined the college on the 1st October last and came to us
with a reputation for hard work. During his four months' connection with the
college he gave promise of success, but his career, much to the regret of those
who knew him, was cut short by a severe attack of typhoid fever.
4. Dental Surgery.—A course of dental surgery, consisting of twenty-one
lectures, was for the first time delivered to the outgoing students of the Second
department by Professor Gould, who also taught them practically, twice a week at
the General Hospital, how to deal with the more ordinary affections of teeth.
5.
Midwifery .—Next year there will probably be one female student in the
class of Midwifery qualifying for the University Degree of Licentiate of Medicine
and Surgery, and as the Syndicate is unwilling to accept the certificate granted
by the Apothecary of the Lying-in Hospital of attendance at his lectures, other
arrangements than those obtaining at present will have to be made to give her a
course on the subject.
6. Professors' Reports.—The Professor of Hygiene remarks that the practical
work was of a limited nature and consisted of demonstrations of water analysis,
microscopic specimens of fibres and foods and meteorological instruments. As soon
as the contemplated additions to the college building are executed, efforts will be
made to obtain all available models, apparatus, appliances and other requisites which
would be of use, not only to illustrate the Professor's lectures, but also to enable
students to work practically at the subject in the hygiene laboratory. The
Professor's suggestion that the course of Practical Hygiene should be attended only
by such students as seek to qualify specially in sanitary science, will be taken into
consideration when the proposed laboratory is completed.
Professor Sibthorpe was enabled, this summer session, to make a good start
with the class of Practical Physiology. By the timely arrival of twelve good
microscopes, together with those that we had on hand, he was able to give his
class, although a large one, a tolerably good course of training on the subject.
The course included a description of the various parts of the microscope, the uses
and method of testing the instrument, instructions how to delineate objects, to
estimate their size and the magnifying power of lenses, and to prepare and mount
specimens. The students examined for themselves milk, starch, cotton, linen,
fibre, bacteria, yeast, the blood of mammals, birds, reptiles and fishes, and, more or
less, all the animal tissues. The course given cannot fail to create in the minds
of the students a deep interest in the subject, and, withal, to aid them in the
prosecution of other important branches of their study. When we receive a
further supply of microscopes, with necessary appliances, the subject of Practical
Physiology will, no doubt, be further developed.
7. The following statement shows the number of lectures and examinations
delivered during the winter and summer sessions of this year ;—