Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-09-26
University Notes.

Madison. Wis. September o.
Beginning with the present year stud
ents in the pre-medical course at the
| University Of Wisconsin will be able
to do over half of the work Of the first
two years OF the curriculum Of the
best medical schools of the country.
This is made possible by the recent
establishment of the department. OF
physiology, of which DR.. Joseph
Erlanger, recent associate professor
Of physiology at John Hopkins medi-
cal school, is to be the head. New
courses III physiological chemistry
have also been added, and will be in
charge of Dr.. D. Q. Bradley, who has
been directing the work in phvsiologi-
cal chemistry at the Yale medical
school. 1t is planned in the near
future to establish a department of
pharmacology and pathology, SO that
the entire first two years of the medi-
cal curriculum may be taken at the
University of Wisconsin. 4 graduate
Of the university can then 60 to any
of the leading medical schools and
there complete in two years the clint
| cal portion Of the medical study neces-
sary for the degree of doctor of medi-
cine.
PRE- MEDICAL TRAINING IN SCIENCE.
The development Of these courses
preparatory to the study of clinical
medicine is a result of the demand for
thorough training in science as pre-
paration for medical students. Modern
scientific medicine consists of the ap-
plication of physics, chemistry. and
the biological sciences to the study
of the prevention and cure of disease.
The remarkable advance made during
the last half century in medicine and
surgery has been due very largely to
the discoveries by chemists and ply
sicists. The modern science of
bacteriology, for example, which has
changed SO completely the conception
Of disease and enlarged the powers Of
controlling it, owes much Of its most
important development to the chemist
Pasteur The Roentgen ray and
radium, which have proved of great
value in the diagnosis and treatment
Of disease, we're the discoveries of
physicist Roentgen and chemist Bee
querel and the Curies. Biological in
yesLigators made possible the dis
coyery Of the part played by insects
Ii the transmission Of disease ski
which IN turn has made possible the
control Of malaria and yellow fever.
The application of chemistry to the
study of disease bids fair to make the
medicine Of the next fifty years adj
vance even faster than it has during
the last half century. A thorough
laboratory training ia the basil sci
i ences Of physics, chemistry, and bio
logy is therefore generally recognized
II as essential for those who desire to fit
themselves properly to understand
modern medicine, and keep up with
its advance.
/ NEW PRE-MEDICAL COURSES.
A special bulletin recently issued
by the university on Courses Pre-
paratory to the Study Of Clinical
Medicine" shows that the university
now offers courses not only in physics,
chemistry, and general biology, neces-
sary for study of medicine, but also
in a considerable number of those
sciences which constitute the first
halt OF the medical curriculum. Re-
search work of value to medicine is
likewise being carried on in the de-
partments in which these courses are
offered.
BACTERIoLOGY.
The department of bacteriology is
one Of the best in the country. None
of the medical schools require so
thorough a course in bactoriology as
that given to "pre-medicap students
IN the department. Professor Il. l..
Russell, the head of this department,
and director Of the State Hygienic
Laboratory, has been actively identl-
fed with many lines of archaeological
research.
NEW DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY.
A department Of physiology has re-
Gently been established and thorough
~ equipped for tie aching and investiga-
ton. Dr. Joseph Erlanger, recently
associate professor of physiology at
the Johns Hopkins medical school, has
been placed at the head Of this new
department. Professor Erlanger IS
regarded as ono Of the most brilliant
PSYCHOLOGISTS in the country. HIS
studies on the circulation of the blood
and the action Of the heart have proved
not only Of great scientific value, but
also Of direct use to practitioners OF
medicine. For the present physiology
cal chemistry will be given in this de-
partment by assistant professor d. =.
Bradley who has been in charge OF
physiological chemistry at the Yale
medical school, and has published pa
pers of great merit.
Mrs. VandeWall Dead.