Calendar: 1846-1847 Page 78

70 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT The instruction given is comprised in thirty lessons of two hours each and is so arranged that each Student performs the operations which are in most frequent use in the Laboratory for the purposes of analysis or research To facilitate the course of study the Pupils are divided into groups each pur- suing distinct plan of operations The objects of study include The processes of Weighing and Measuring The different modes of taking the Specific Gravities of Solids and Fluids Distillation and the arrangement of Apparatus for the application of Heat and Cold Preparation of Hydrochloric Acid Solution of Ammonia 13 The Preparation of Gases and their collection and preser- vation over Water the modes adopted for their Measurenn nt and Analysis Hydrogen Sulphuretted Hydrogen Carbonic Acid Carbonic Oxide Binoxide of Nitrogen Collection of soluble Gases by Displacement Hydrochloric Acid las Am- moniacal Gas The arrangement of Apparatus for the Desiccation of Gases the modes of Heating Bodies in current of Hydro- gen Carbonic Acid Chlorine the preparation of Cork and Caoutchouc for the junctions of Apparatus The vise of the Mouth Blowpipe The employment of the Enanieller's Lamp in bending blowing and cutting Ο lass sealiug ami soldering of Tubes The processes of Acidimetry and Alkalimetry The detection of the most important Poisons The application of Tests for the principal Acids Bases and Elementary Substances 10 General Method of Qualitative Analysis and the opera- tions required The Collection and Washing of Precipitates Decantation Evaporation Desiccation 11 Method of Organic Analysis CD In addition to the foregoing Medical Students practise- 12 The examination of Calculi and of the principal Sccre- tious both in their healthy and morbid states