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...arranged that a horse can be brought on to the front platform for the demonstration of experiments. A door connects with the hospital from this room. On the third floor is the dissecting-room. It runs up two stories and is lighted and ventilated by a large skylight. The floor is asphalt and the walls of brick, heavily painted. The subjects are taken up by elevator. Back of the dissecting-room is the library and reading-room. This is fitted up with reading desks and writing taoles. A row of bookcases surrounds the room. There is a medical society...
Extracts from the diary of Mr. Samnel Davis, of Plymouth, in the year 1817, have recently been published. Among the entries is the following: The Medical College in Mason street is a neat brick structure, crowned by a skylight, and is an appendage to the university, the funds of which contributed $20,000 towards its erection. Invited by Dr. Jackson. I devoted a few hours to a visit there, passing in review the library room, lecture room, demonstration room, chemical room, dissecting room, bones room, mineral cabinet, etc., etc. A folio volume and plates of the bones, in the library...
...eighty-four feet. The objections to the inconvenience in referring to books, caused by the narrowness of the passages, are overcome by the placing of desks opposite the end of each passage, at which one can sit and read. The lighting of the room will be by a skylight running the whole length, and around the room will be three galleries for stacking, with eight feet studding between each gallery. The width of the main part of the wing is about thirty-four feet, but the ground-floor is to be extended nineteen feet on the south side, and will...