Without Laboratory Activities: Further Progress of CMC and the Emergence of Modern Public Health
Preliminary Remarks As we shall see later, in the entire report of 1842-43, besides dissection, details of classes, different subjects taught in the College and Hospital, hospital management, there was also mention of “Museum” and “Library”. But there was no mention of any laboratory activities at all. Even the name of any laboratory at the College, though we have earlier come across of providing microscope to the students, was glaringly absent. Cogently one can ask why laboratory was so conspicuous by its absence in the Report. From the 1830s medicine entered into the era of “laboratory medicine” – more experimental











