Identifier: corpuscle3189394rush (find matches)
Title: The Corpuscle.
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Rush Medical College
Subjects: Presbyterian Hospital of the City of Chicago Rush Medical College Rush University Medical Center –History –19th century University of Chicago Chicago (Ill.) History of medicine –United States—Chicago Medical education –United States
Publisher: Chicago, Ill
Contributing Library: Rush University
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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wings of the colony of plant and slab cultures on different solid media, andof individual bacteria after staining; preparing a written description of thegrowth in all media, and of the bacterium in the hanging drop and stained pre-parations . Special staining processes for demonstration of spores, capsules andfiagella. Pathogenic Bacteria. Bacillus Tuberculosis, staining of preparations of sputum and pure culture. Micrococcus Tancalafcus Capsulatus with capsule stained in sputum. Gonococcus—methods of differentiating it from other diplococci in secre-tions from mucous membrane. Study of colonies and various growths of Bacillus Diphtherise and Strept-ococcus, with the morphology of each. Study of the Bacillus Typhosus and the Spirillum Cholerse Asiaticse forpurposes of differentiation of each. Bacteriological examination of water. Demonstration of methods of inoculation of animals and the bacteriologi-cal examination of the organs at the autopsy. THE LABORATORY OF PRACTICAL ANATOMY.*
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The Laboratory of Practical Anatomy, or dissecting room, occupies thefifth or top floor of the new building, having a floor space of 98 x 48 ft., un-broken by standard pillars or obstruction of any kind. The stairway bywhich it is reached, opens at the top to a platform only partially enclosed,exposed thereby to the open air. As the elevator shaft from the storge roomoutside of the main building has no connection with the other floors, there isno avenue for the transmission, to other portions of the main building, of foulodors which might arise from the careless or improper preparation of ma-terial. A skylight 22 x 80 .feet occupies the main portion of the ceiling,which is just under the roof, and with four windows on the east and six onthe south side of the room provides an abundance of light for the work whichis all done in the day time. The floor is of Portland cement with an asphalt-um top dressing, sloping from sides to centre with a gradient of one inch toevery five feet. The as

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