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UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
Fig. 4
8.	Assistant director’s private room
9.	General laboratory
10.	Assistants’ laboratory
11.	Histology preparation room
12.	Histology classroom
13.	Drawing and photography
1.	Lecture room
2.	Lecture preparation room
3.	Professor’s private room
4.	Professor’s laboratory
5.	Library
6.	Balance room and library
7.	Demonstration theater
instruments (18, 19). These are well equipped for constructing both heavy and light apparatus. Grinding and polishing machinery, an electric bath for plating, and other facilities are provided. Other corner sections are taken up by the bacteriology laboratory (24) and a large room used for operations and experiments upon both small and large animals (28). The latter has a special apparatus for fastening large animals, such as horses, in any given position without danger to operator or animal. A 7,000 c.p. electric illumination makes possible cinematographic reproduction of vivisection and other experiments. Adjoining is a room for sterilization and bandages (29), another for preparing animals for operations (27), and next to this a third for observation of animals under research (26).
There is also on this floor a room (30), which can be completely darkened, for optical researches such as spectroscopy and polarization. It is also meant to be used for researches on animals with X-rays. The enormous progress in Röntgen technique renders it possible to study the movements of the intestinal tract, heart, lungs and other organs cinematographically, before and after operations, and thus to submit them to an analytical investigation. The funds necessary to equip this room were not available until recently.
The basement, in addition to the engine room (39), refrigerating plant (37), and various storerooms, contains three laboratories, one for electrophysiology (34), one for low temperatures (38), and one for body temperature (40).