Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-10-02
STUDENTS OF BOTH SEXES.
Sixty-ninth Session of the Medical De-
partment, Columbian University.

large audience of students and others at
tended the opening exercises last evening of
the sixty-Hinth session of the medical and dem
tai departments OF the Columbian University
One of the features of the occasion was the at
tendance of students of both sexes. The dean
of the faculty, DIR. A +. A. King made the an
noGnccmenss Ill regard to the winter course Of
lectures.
DR.. LEE OPPOSED TO ALL DoGMAs IN MEDICINE.
DIR. VIM Lee, professor of physiology, then
delivered an interesting Introductory lecture.
which was devoted to 4 review of the study of
physiology and the progress made during the
past thirty years. The lecturer referred to the
Tact That the college was opposed to all dOSmas
IN medicine and as not cOuntenancing any who
call themselves homeopaths. allopaths, or by
any other term which Is restricted in its appll-
cation. He criticised severely those who allow
school label of any kind to BIO attached to
them. He took Halter, called the father of
modern physiology, as his exponent of the
teachings of today. It was said of Halter that
he carefully abstained from all opinions founded
merely upon speculative grounds and deducted
AIS general principles exclusively from expert
ment ana observation.
ADVANTAGES FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS IN WASH
IHGToS.
Washington, he said, had its workers in the
past in Sewall, the first professor IN the college
an appointment of 1821-in his refutatIon of
The pseudo science phrenology; in Beaumont
who obtained an honorary degree from the
college, the only degree in medicine that he il
credited with, IN his world-famcd researches i'll
digestion by the living stomach in his servant
and patient, Alexis St. Martin, who. having re-
ceiyed gunshOt wound in the abdomen was
for years the subject of Investigations through
an opening In his stomach, and in others OF
later date. As for today while the college itself
felt the great need OF moro perfect laboratory
advantages. all around II in the great depart
ments of the government work was going on
and facilities were offered to the earnest
student in the great library of the Army
Medical Departmental its museum-in the
Agricultural Department, in the National
Museum and in the Naval Museum of Hygiene.
which went far to fill the deficiency in the lab
oratory work of the college ITSELF and which.
with the hospital and dispensary clinics would
fill well tine working hours of the day time
while the evenings were devoted to lectures and
college instruction.
The DENTAL DEPARTMENT
Prof. Lee was followed by Prof Thomson
OF the dental faculty, who, after explaining
the absence of the essayist, DIR. Finley, who
was called out of the city, gave a synopsis of
the work accomplished by the dental depart
ment III the four years of its existence In the
course of his remarks he dwelt on the necessity
OF astudent of dentistry acquiring a knowl-
edge of medicine In order to practice dentistry
inteiilSently, and claimed that the future
dentist must be prepared to consult with physl-
clans and surgeons. He also gave an ex-
haustlve description of the dental infirmary
located IN the college buildiug) and stated
mat this lntirmary served two purposes-to
give to the student practical experience and
also as a charity to those who were too poor
TO pay Tor professional services. The number
81 operations performed last year covered over
two thousand.