Excerpt from Kingston Medical Quarterly, Vol. 3: January, 1899 Announcement. In the curriculum, as now prescribed, we find that the members of the Council have at last endorsed our views to a certain extent. \ve now find that a student in order to pro cure a license must attend two courses of six or eight months, each consisting of fifty lectures and demonstrations in Pathology, and one course of three or four months, consisting of twenty five lectures and demonstrations in Bacteriology. In the quarterly of January, 1898, we strongly urged upon_ the Council the advisability of requiring the student to devote more time to the study of these two important subjects. We do not presume that what we then said had the effect of bringing about the change. Probably the members of the Council never read the quarterly. However they were induced to'make the change we know not nor do we care. Sufficient for us is the fact that the change has been made, and that two of the most important subjects in the whole range of medical science have now been allotted more time in the Medical Curriculum. Of course it is gratifying to find that opinions which we enunciated a year ago have now been adopted, and, as a consequence, all candidates for a license will have a fair knowledge of these two essentials of a medical education. Another addition has been made to the Medical Curriculum. Each applicant for a license must now present a certificate of having attended five lectures and five demonstrations upon the use of anaesthetics. We cannot claim that we had advocated this addition to the Medical Curriculum, but we can and do most heartily congratulate the Council upon the wisdom they have displayed in making this a necessary part of every student's education. No one is properly equipped to enter upon the general practice of medicine who is not conversant with the modes of administering the different anaesthetics, the dangers attending their administration, the reasons for preferring one particular anaesthetic in any given case, and the means of coun teracting their untoward effects. \ve believe that this is a wise addition to the. Curriculum, and we again congratulate the Council upon having incorporated this course of lectures in their Curriculum. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.