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Word: skylights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Veterinary School. | 2/10/1885 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MEDICAL SCHOOL IN 1817. | 2/29/1884 | See Source »

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