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IN a criticism of my “Outlines of Lectures on Physiology” which appeared in NATURE for May 12, you say:—“Pathology, or the application of physiology to disease, is hardly touched upon in this book. It is a most unfortunate omission unless both pathology and therapeutics are taught more systematically than with us.” About three years ago “Institutes of Medicine” (then including physiology proper, histology, and pathology) was divided, and now these departments are each taught separately, and each is provided with its own laboratory. A systematic course of lectures and demonstrations in pathology is given, with instruction and practice in making autopsies (after Virchow). Therapeutics is taught from the physiological point of view, and also has its own laboratory. So that it only becomes necessary to make such reference to pathology, &c., in the lectures on physiology as suffices to indicate that the subject does bear on the study of disease, and thus interest the student in it from its bearing on his life-work.
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MILLS, T. Medicine in McGill University. Nature 36, 198 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036198d0
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