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Fig. 13.—Animal Hospital
box can be moved in different directions, so that the animal can be operated on in different positions.
(c) The animal hospital (No. 72), excellently lighted and ventilated from the ceiling, contains three large kennels with sleeping cages for animals that have been operated upon. Openings in the wall give communication from the kennel to a platform outside where the animals can stay during good weather. This opening can be shut by a trap-door, when it is cold. A bath is provided for cleaning the animals. There still remains sufficient place in the room for cages for other animals. The animals are nursed in the hospital . after operation and stay there under observation returning to the stable only at the end of the whole experiment.
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
The Department of Physiological Chemistry comprises an office of the professor (No. 63), a balance-room (No. 62), a private laboratory (No. 61), a research laboratory for special workers (No. 60), a students’ laboratory (No. 58) where the practical course of physiological chemistry is given, two assistants’ rooms (No. 53 and 54), and a distillation department (No. 22 and 23) in the basement where the rougher work is done. In the research laboratory there is accommodation for microbiological work and one finds there also a big Büchner press for enzymatic preparation.
The students’ laboratory, 14 meters long by 13.50 meters wide and 4 meters high has a complete equipment of cupboards, fume cupboards, sinks and baths, and six large laboratory benches. Each bench is 4.15 meters long, 1.60 meters wide and 0.75 meters high, with a top of asbestos, drawers and cupboards, sinks at the two ends, and small leaden funnels for waste water in the middle of the bench. Each bench suitable for normal biochemistry work is arranged for eight students, so there is accommodation for about fifty students in all.
DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACOLOGY
The Department of Pharmacology comprises an office of the professor (No. 57), a private laboratory (No. 56), a research laboratory for special workers (No. 55), a dark room (No. 54), and a small incubator-room, arranged and used for fermentation purposes especially in connection with research work upon bios, which was discovered in the laboratory under the direction of the chief of the Department of Pharmacology.
ANIMAL SHEDS
In the yard, parallel to the teaching wing of the laboratory is a building at an average of 6 meters deep and 25 meters long containing accommodation for small animals. It is subdivided into a number of