New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-12
AMONG THE COLLEGES.
SOME IMPORTANT LABORATORIES IN THIS
CITY.
DENTAL RESEARCu-THE LOOMS LABORATORY
THE CARNEGIE LABORATORY.

tory In Twenty thni-s which will be devoted e4cu-
sivcly TO research in dentistry. There is no similar
dental laboratory in the world. Heretofore thousands
of patients have gone each for treatment to the
dental college proper. much larger number can now
be accommodated in this department, created especially
from fund held by the trustees Of the College OF
Dentistry. The building has been erected and FUR
nshed BY them at cost Of 100000 II Is new nom
Top to bottom and has nearly 10000 square feet OF
floor area. Ample accommodation has been gwen 10
each department, and IT is equipped with every modern
appliance for the thorough and most advanced educa
tion Of men In the study and practice of dentistry.
On the ground floor is large examiningToom where
estimates OF work are taken and the natsre oil cases
looked into INDECENT patients are received ana treat
ment given according to their needs, from an oiu'aT!
everyday toothache 10 a brand-new set OF teeth
meetngroom and classrooms for the students are also
provided on this floor
One Of the most interesting corners of the institution
is in the mechanical department. the impress
sion room, on the fifth floor. Here young ooc-
tors disport In white aprons, their hahos en-
bedded in fresh plaster of Paris, nimDly Adjusting
IL 20 the moath OF II patient, who next week VIII ap-
pear with ais her own especial MT and dazzling
new set OF "uppers" "undcrs.' One hundred ad-
Unstable chairs give the large adjoining room very much
the appearance OF an elaborate baibershop But these
are no ordinary chairs There are headrests, table anu
cuspdor attachments, and any number oil movements
to Them These 100 chairs represent exactly So,%oo'
Clinical practice goes here the students having
daily instruction in filling teeth and In performing every
operation about the mouth.
A largo amphitheatre takes up poruon oi u"o
Stories similar to that in other laboratories, and there
is also chemical department with tables lou ooV
students There are completely appointed rooms ior
the study of histology and bactenoogy: The micro
scopes used the latest higIp0Wer German lhVeh-
tons, made by Zess and LeiZ. Cancer Will here be
mnutey investigated in all its relations to diseases Of
the mouth, and from experiments ana tests Maoe ~
is
will accrue.
The Loomis Building, In Twenty sixthst., opposite
Bellevue Hospital, given TO New York as branch
Of the university under two cOnditionsthst 1t should
be called I'm perpetuity "The LOOMS Laboratory ana
that the of the giver should be forever Withheld
IL has been pronounced the most complete laboratory
in the world. The students are engaged this autumn
in one OF its most important departments in the study
of germs for the cultivation Of which DR.. j. NJ Byron
has invented large and unique incubator IL weighs
800 pounds, 100 of which consist OF asbestos, ana
contains four chambers which are completely protected
from air by inch Of water, which entirely sur
rounds them and steam sterIllzer. 1t is kept warm
by a slow gasheating process beneath the
apparatus. The temperature is kept at 90
degrees Fahrenheit and there are several
escape chlmneys on the top In one OF Its cham
bers within small glass tubes, growing germs OF
leprosy, kept alive I'm nutrient gelane ana tuberce-
bacill growing potatoes and rapidly multiplying.
ment, and sixteen others of various foreign makes:
original investigation usually being made by gradu-
aes and specialists with the high power German Letz
and Zeiss instruments.
An important feature of this department is not only
the feeding and fattenlng, it were OF these germs
but the preparation Of microbes for examination by
microscope. During epidemic another the
community large occupies itself with certain phases
of the public danger dilates upon this feature. and
comments upon that remedy until the ninedays' won
der" has worn Itself out. But little account Is taken
by the public of the close observation unceasng APP
plcation devotion of scientists the year round to
those which periodically stir the Nation.
In the department OF chemistry for the special
analy OF specimens there Is class of sixty students
four students at each OF the fifteen desks Each desk
is lighted by ircandescent bulb, and provided with
ventlating ducts, whereby those working are freed
from nsAoi, gases. Three OF the rooms are devoted
to the study OF toxcology. An entire floor is given
to the museum and department Of vivisecton. Not
only are there models (sone Of them moving OF
every organ of the body, but thew and snew, nerve
and vein made in plaster, and appropriately colored
a large tank containing live frogs is curious ap
puItenance TO this department, but they appear 10
be very sober, webehaved frogs, End there Is never
a croak Of dissent approval at any Of the eX
perimental operations IN progress
The Carnegie Laboratory connected with the College
of Physicians aud surgeons is devoted almost entirely
to microscopic work, bacteIiology, and pathology III
will be remembered that this building was finished in
1885 Us a part of Bellevue Medical College, and Is
commodous ive-story edhce compete in its several do
partments Forty German Letz microscopes ale used
in class work OF normal histology aud no less than four
teen high power Carl ZeiSs instruments for special
work. A apparatus has been added TO this lab
ratory since June for cutting sections OF the brain
II made by Augustus Becker at GOettingen Ger
many. Another comparatively new feature Is all
for dry fpril
made at Kharbeck. Inc balances used here for weigh
thousandth of grain be determined.
Attending physicians are engaged this fall In photo
mcrogTaphy tic most difficult OF tests owing 70 the
rumbnng Of Vehicle in the Street, far below this
department, is sufficient 10 alter the focus II Is
long, tedious exceedingly intricate process and IL Is
only this month that specialists have succeeded IN tax
ing pictures OF the first germs OF leproSy that nave
Experiments are being made on mice to test the
effect of various drugs and poispns the SUBSTANCES
administered in food during several days, and te
little creatures are thoroughly watched before pehg
subsequently, killed, when the organs are examined,
subjected u microscopic investigation and the re-
suits determined.
over two hundred students have begun work at the
ment. a change has been made this term making
sanitary engineering a. postgraduate, in lieu OF all
tory which is at the college proper and not separate
Institution in the cases already mentioned Is chiey
i'm inorganic chemistry. Much attention is paid TO the
analysis OF minerals. The director Of this Laboratory
is authority for the taement that in recent years
chemists bc coming round 10 the old alcheleaI
ideas
The laboratory OF the homeopathic College, on
SiNti fOursL aud Avenue a, is to Oh october 10
III mas TWO departments, astrological AID chemical each
Accommodating thirty students at time. They have
sixteen micro copes and the students viii bo engaged
in testing preparations Of drugs and the sediments OF
water, ana general astrological work
A projected laboratory in connection with those
aircad. established is under consideration by the
fr,slfs.s OF re homeopathic Medical College, who
have Ictn p.Onis.G $4,000 as fund TO starr Il new
a, k a
oi I,xp rinlcatal fharnlacology, and director ap
point a. who Is at present malDg speciality OF the
81 of ouhitc, and narcotics at his private Oice
ii is believed The proposed laboratory building
Will be begun this fall
FOOTBALL AT COLUMBIA.