﻿INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY
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Fia. 8.—Teaching Laboratory, Institute of Medical Physiology
The small lecture-theater is on the second floor in the northwest wing and is used mainly by the laboratories for gymnastics and zoophysiology. It is 8 by 7.12 m and accommodates a maximum of fifty students. The desk is on a platform 0.32 m in height. It is provided with the usual facilities for demonstration of experiments and an apparatus for the projection of slides and microscopic preparations is built into it. Cinema projection is provided for by a portable apparatus.
The library and reading-room on the second floor in the main wing has a floor area of 7.75 by 10.75 m with 213 m of bookshelves. The library subscribes to current journals. All reprints received by the departments or their heads are put into circulation and reprints from journals which are in the library are given to the workers most interested in them, while all others are indexed and placed in the library. A bookbinding shop is placed in the attic.
INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL PHYSIOLOGY
The object which the Institute of Medical Physiology has in view is scientific research and teaching of physiology to medical students. The number of medical students who begin the study of this branch of science even' year is about one hundred and twenty. As the
time which the students devote to physiology generally amounts to three years, there will continually be about 360 students who partake in the instruction imparted in the department. This instruction consists, partly, in lectures and, partly, in practical experimental work. In the course of experimental physiology which is held every year, the students are given the opportunity of independent performance of a series of experiments within the different branches of physiology, partly in the form of animal experiments and partly in investigations which they can carry out with their fellow students as subjects.
Besides the professor, the staff of the department consists of three scientifically trained assistants, one office clerk, and two laboratory attendants, one of whom is a trained joiner and the other a trained mechanic.
The department provides room for scientifically interested young physicians and there are three guest rooms which can be placed at the disposal of foreign workers.
The annual budget of the department amounts to 8,000 kroner, besides the sums necessary for electricity and gas supply and for cleaning.
The Institute of Medical Physiology occupies the entire basement and first floor of the southeast wing besides the adjacent half of the first floor of the middle