Lectures on pathology - the study of the nature and causes of disease - were offered at ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ as early as the 1860s. But it was not until the establishment of the Department of Pathology and Bacteriology in 1895 under Dr. Walter Connell that the discipline became a central part of the medical curriculum.
Connell led this combined department until 1919, when Pathology and Bacteriology were split up; he subsequently became the first head of the separate Department of Pathology.
The Cancer Research Laboratories (see Cancer Research Institute) were founded in 1971.
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