Evening journal., 1901-05-21
EXPANSION In
MEDICAL TEACHING
To Erect Medical LabOratO-
rieS on Complete Scale
Philadelphia TO Have Most Extensive
Buildings in This Country
or Europe

The University of Pennsylvania Is about
to erect at a cost of more than S5OoOOO
exclusive of grounds and equipment. a
medical laboratory building which VIII
be unexcelled in every respect. The
trustees are also contemplating the cree
ton, in the future. Of new medical hall.
anatomical building and auxiliary build
ings. which will adjoin the new labora-
tory about to be erected, and which Will
form one OF the most extensive systems OF
buildings devoted exclusively uo the
teaching of medicine in Europe or
America
The new medical laboratory building,
which will be erected at once, viii be
lquadransular in shape, and will be located
on the south side Of Hamilton walk. be-
tween Thiryt-sixth and Thiriy-seveuth
streets The building win be two stories
in height above a high basement and
measures $40 feet front by nearly 200 feet
in depth. The long front faces north. se-
curing a maximum amount of the best
light for laboratory purposes. An along
the front are arranged small rooms for
research, rooms for professors and their
assistants library, etc.-these open into
a private corridor, so that men employed
in these rooms may pursue their work
without interruption from students pass
ing through the main halls.
Perfect lighting Of all the laboratories
has been obtained, the courts being large
enough. with the low front building to
furnish good north light to the laboratory
of pharmacy and pharmacodynamics on
the first floor and to the large laborator-
les On the second floor devoted 10 pa
lthology where microscopic work is done
the north front of these rooms facing on
the courtyard being made almost wholly
of glass and extending higher than the
front, so that steady north light will be
thrown to the back of the room.
The first floor of the new laboratories
will be devoted to physiology and phar-
macodynamics. The portion assigned to
the former consists OF one large labora-
tory for practical instruction, one for gem
eral research work twenty rooms devoted
to subsection teaching, research work.
rooms for professors, etc. The section
which will be devoted TO pharmacody-
lnamics consists of one large laboratory
for practical pharmacodynamics a labo-
lratory for teaching practical pharmacy.
"A feet by 1i2 feet; another for general
lpharmacodynamics A feet by 65 feet; be-
sides a museum and ten rooms for orig
final research work, etc. The rooms in the
basement Of the building will be used for
demonstrative work.
The second floor will be devoted excu-
sively to pathology. An examination OF
the commodius plans will disclose the pur-
, pose Of the pathological laboratory After
providing for lectures upon general topics
in pathology. the chief provision is for
, laboratory instruction. The entire north
front of the building is devoted TO labora-
/ tories for advanced students in pathology
! and pathological bacteriology. and TO the
q special research and assistants rooms
+ Each Of the advanced laboratories meas
S tres 81 feet by a feet. The east wing ac-
{ commodities the laboratory OF expert
< mental pathology. while the west wing is
occupied by the museum of pathological
specimens. This latter, which measures
"A feet by 65 feet, adjoins the demonstra-
a tioh hall of morbid anatomy. which hal
! communicates with the general pathalogi
, oal-histological laboratory. The las
laboratory, the front of which is to con
,sist almost entirely Of glass, is located II
u a section Of the building looking nortl
Unto L spacious court. This room. 81 Zee
by 100 feet. will seat one hundred students
: and will be devoted entirely 10 inicroscop
ical work for which, on account Of IN
! excellent lighting II will be admirabl
Il adapted. In order TO combine IN one har
e monious whole the study OF the micro
a. scopical features OF diseased organs an
r the gross alterations I'm them, the pathc
s. logical-hstological laboratory. the labora
= tory Of morbid or gross pathological anat
y, omy and the museum of patholog
e. are made closely communicating and free
e, ly accessible one from the other Anoths
a. section Of the building. Of equal size wit
rs the lrst, and also looking north into n
:, court. Is subdividod into three small'
ar lete~Stc-ics Tor .h3 instruction in con
rarativc pathology Of animal diseases
o. neurological pathology Of nervous dt
easesl, and surgical pathology. The san