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been gained, the fundamental laws of combination are taken up and the atomic theory and chemical formulæ are introduced Chlorine, nitrogen, carbon and some of their typical compounds are then studied, and thereafter the principal remaining elements, each in connection with the group of elements in the periodic system to which it belongs. Examinations, oral or written, are held fortnightly, and occasionally written exercises are required.

LABORATORY WORK.-Every student is required to devote at least three hours a week to laboratory work. The laboratory course is designed to make the student familiar with ordinary laboratory operations and to lead him to solve simple problems in chemistry by experiment. Several common inorganic substances are prepared and studied; simple quantitative experiments are performed; and some time is devoted to elementary work in qualitative analysis.

Book recommended: Remsen's Introduction to the Study of Chemistry (Macmillan & Co.), for both class and laboratory work.

Senior Chemistry Class.

Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, 9.-10 A. M.

CLASS WORK.-The subjects of study in this class fall into two subdivisions: pure chemistry, taken up on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and the applications of chemistry to medicine, on Saturdays.

The subjects of study in pure chemistry are determination of atomic and molecular weights; constitution of acids, bases and salts; classification and properties of the principal metals; compounds of carbon-their purification and analysis; the paraffins and their chief derivatives; ethylene; acetylene; benzene and its chief derivatives.

The subjects of study in medical chemistry are: Air; water, its sanitary analysis and purification; the chemical properties and detection of the more commonly occurring poisons; adulteration of foods; incompatibility of drugs; the proximate principles of the body and of food; typical foodstuffs as milk, flour, bread, meat; the blood; the digestive fluids and digestion; the principal animal secretions, especially urine; the quantitative estimation of glucose, albumen, urea.

LABORATORY WORK.-All members of the class are required to devote at least three hours a week to laboratory work. This will include qualitative analysis and the preparation of pure reagants. Practice is given in the identification of the chief inorganic compounds of the following elements: arsenic, antimony, tin, bismuth, copper, mercury, lead, silver, iron, chromium, aluminum, manganese, zinc, magnesium, barium, calcium, potassium, sodium, chlorine, bromine, iodine, sulphur, nitrogen, phosphorus, carbon, boron ; and the identification of the following organic compounds (not more than one such being present): acetic, tartaric, oxalic, hydrocyanic, salicylic and citric acids and their salts, alcohol, chloroform, chloral, glucose, cane sugar, starch, phenol, quinine, morphine, strychnine.

For students who can devote sufficient time to the subject a more extended laboratory course is given, including, in addition to the preceding, the preparation and study of typical organic compounds and the quantitative estimation of the chief constituents of urine.

Books recommended: For class use, Roscoe and Harden's Inorganic Chemistry for Advanced Students (Macmillan & Co.); Remsen's Compounds of Carbon (Macmillan & Co.); Halliburton's Essentials of Chemical Physiology (Longman's). For reference: Remsen's Inorganic Chemistry, Advanced Course (H. Holt & Co.), Reese's Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology (Blakiston, Son & Co.), Hammarsten's Text-book of Physiological Chemistry, translated by Mandel (Wiley & Sons).

CHEMICAL LABORATORY.

The chemical laboratory accommodates about one hundred students. A reference library is placed in the laboratory for the use of students doing analytical work.

Laboratory students are allowed the use of all the more inexpensive reagents. They are required to provide themselves with the more expensive reagents, as alcohol and ether, and they are charged with the value of apparatus they have broken or injured.

The laboratory is open to students of the Junior Class on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 10 to 11 a. m., and to students of the Senior Class on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 to 11 a. m., and on Fridays from 11 a. m. to 12 m.

Lecturer.

II.--ELEMENTARY BIOLOGY.
(A.)-- BOTANY.

Saturdays, 11.-1 P. M.

The course in Botany will have special reference to the following subjects Protoplasm and Plant-cells, the Tissue and Tissue Systems of Plants, Morphology of the Plant-body, Plant Physiology, the Principles of Classification and the Laws of Distribution, the Protophyta (Schizophycea), the Phycophyta (Chlorophycea and Phaophyceae), the Carpophyta (Rhodophycea, Ascomycete and Basidiomyceteæ specially), the Bryophyta (Mosses and Liverworts), the Pteridophyta (Ferns, Horse-tails and Club-mosses), the Anthophyta (specially the Coniferæ, Gramineæ, Orchidaceæ, Liliaceæ, Urticaceæ, Labiatæ, Compositæ, Umbelliferæ, Rosaceæ, Leguminosa, Cruciferæ, Ranunculaceae). The Morphology and life history (the Anatomy, Histology and Development) of at least two common or representative species of each group of plants named above, in minute detail.

General attention will be given to the native flora of the province, with special notice of foreign as well as native species of interest from economic, medicinal or injurious properties.

The preliminary study of Botany as indicated in Grade IX of the Public School Course (Spotton's Structural Botany and Flora), and especially the formation of a local collection of plants, even if unnamed and unclassified, will be an advantage to any student entering upon the course.

Practical instruction will be given in the collecting, drying and mounting of specimens, the use of the microscope, the preparing of microscopic sections, and the general dissection of plants; and all students will be required to present a collection of at least 100 plants representing the local flora examined by them, together with their notes and drawings of microscopic work done during the session, as a portion of their terminal examination. The use in class of a number of microscopes will be granted the students under the care and direction of the lecturer; but a hand lens, glass s'ides, cover glasses, scalpels and other apparatus, and books necessary for each student, shall be supplied by each for himself.

For reference

Text Books: Elementary.-Bessey's Essentials. special texts will be recommended in each sub-division of the subject during the course of the lectures and demonstrations.

Lecturer

(B.)--ZOOLOGY.

Two Hour Session.

The work of the class will consist of a course of lectures supplemented by practical work.

The following subjects will be treated of in the lectures :-Organic and Inorganic Bodies; Differences between Plants and Animals, Morphology, Physiology, Differences between Animals, Specialisation of Function, Morphological Type, Von Bær's Law of Development, Origin of Species, Homology, Analogy, Reproduction, Distribution in Time and Space, Evolution and Classification with special reference to the fauna of Nova Scotia.

The practical part of the course will consist of Dissections and Demonstrations, Microscopic, &c.

The object of the class will be to give such a comprehensive idea of the Animal Kingdom, as will form a good basis for anyone wishing to prosecute still further the study of Biology, or Comparative Anatomy and Physiology.

Text Books: Students' Manual by Parker & Haswell. Reference Text Books for each sub-division of the subject will be recommended in the course of the lectures and demonstrations.

III.-MEDICAL PHYSICS.

Professor.

.STEPHEN M. DIXON, M. A.

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11 A. M.—12 M.

In this class a rapid survey of the subjects of Experimental Physics is taken, the subjects treated being :-The properties of solids and fluids (including the elements of dynamics); sound; heat; light; electricity and magnetism. The mode of treatment is inductive and quasi-historical, the generalisations and theoretical conceptions being worked up to, experimentally, but not systematically developed by deduction. The amount of mathematical knowledge assumed is therefore no greater than may be acquired in Grade X1 of the Public Schools.

Members of the class, though required to work up the subjects treated in the lectures, are not expected to carry on any extensive private reading. But they will be expected to refer to works recommended by the lecturer in sections of the subject which have important practical application in medical study.

Books recommended for reference: Daniell's Physics for Students Medicine (Macmilan & Co.) Robertson's Physiological Physics (Cassell & Co.) Jones' Heat, Light and Sound (Macmillan & Co.)

2, Students wishing to attend the above courses may do so either as General Medical Students without preliminary examination, or as regular Undergraduates in Medicine. In either case they must enter their names in the University Register at the beginning of the Session. By reference to §§xvi and xxxi Undergraduates in Arts and Science will see how they at the same time may be registered with the Medical

Faculty and so secure the benefit of certain classes of the Arts and Science Courses, as regular Undergraduates in Medicine.

3. In other subjects the necessary classes may be attended at any other University or College recognized by the Senate.

4. Attendance on classes by those registered as General Medical Students will not qualify for Degree Examinations in this Faculty except as provided in §LXVIII 1 (A) (2) c.

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Certificates indicating less than 90 per cent. of attendance upon any class will not be accepted without valid reason for absence being shown.

$ LXIV. The Academic Year-The Academic year consists of one session of eight months duration. The Session of 1903-1904 will begin on Thursday, August 27th, 1903, and end on Tuesday, April 27th, 1904.

§ LXV.-Degrees.-Two Medical Degrees are conferred by this University, viz., Doctor of Medicine (M. D.) and Master of Surgery (C. M.); but neither degree is conferred on any person who does not at the same time obtain the other.

§ LXVI. - Matriculation Examination.-1. Candidates for medical degrees must give evidence of having obtained a satisfactory general education, by presenting certificates of having passed, before entering on the course of study qualifying for the degrees, either the Preliminary Examination of the Provincial Medical Board of Nova Scotia, the Junior Matriculation Examination of this University, with Latin as one of the languages selected, or some other examination recognized by the Board as sufficient.*

2. The Examinations recognized pro tanto by the Provincial Medical Board will be similarly recognized by this Faculty.

3. Candidates who may have passed in all but one of the subjects required for the Preliminary Examination of the Provincial Medical Board either before the Board's Examiners or at any of the recognized Examinations indicated above, provided they shall have made at least 25% in such subject, may enter as undergraduates, but will subsequently be required to comply with the Board's regulations as regards the remaining subject of examination before being admitted to the classes of the second year.

*All information in referenee to Requirements for the Preliminary Examination of the Provincial Medical Board, Exemptions, etc., may be obtained on application to the Registrar of the Board, Dr. A. W. H. Lindsay, 241 Pleasant Street, Halifax.

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§ LXVII.-Degree Examinations.—1. dates for the degrees of M. D. and C. M. shall be required to pass two main examinations-the Primary and the Final M. D., C. M. Examinations--and to have satisfied at the dates of the examinations certain conditions as to fees, attendance on classes, etc. Tickets of admission will be issued to all candidates who have satisfied these requirements of the Faculty, which tickets shall be produced at each examination.

2. The Regular Degree Examinations will be held during the second and third weeks in April of each year.

3. At all examinations a minimum of 50% in each subject will be required to obtain a "Pass," except under the conditions specified in §LXIX, 4. Candidates making 75% or over on any subject shall be indicated in the published class lists as having "Passed with distinction." The names in the two divisions of the class lists and in the general pass lists shall be placed in simple alphabetical order.

4. Should the candidate fail to pass or to hand in a paper in any subject or subjects at the Regular Examinations, his fee will not be returned to him, but he will be permitted a supplementary examination in such subject or subjects on payment of $5.00 for each subject, with or without evidence of further attendance on said subject or subjects as the Faculty may direct.

5. A candidate who has been prevented by exceptional circumstances from presenting himself at the Regular Examinations may by special permission of the Faculty be allowed a special examination, but such examination shall only be allowed at the dates specified in the University Almanac for the supplementary examinations, and the fee shall be $5.00 for each subject of examination.

6. Candidates are not permitted to present themselves for examination in selected subjects, but are required to take each section as hereafter defined (§§LXVIII-LXIX) as a whole, except (a) Candidates obtaining the special permission of the Faculty; (b) Students taking one of the affiliated courses SLXIII, 2).

In either case the fee will be $5.00 for each subject, and such examination shall only be allowed at the dates specified in the University Almanac for the supplementary or the regular examinations.

7. Candidates who have been granted supplementary examinations, will be required to pay the examination fee whether they take the examination in the Autumn or at the time of the regular April examinations.