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During fiscal years 1959 and 1960, there were 139 military and civilian students who came to the Institute for varying periods of special instruction.

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Research:

The Institute is engaged in an extensive program of medico-military scientific research in both morphological and experimental pathology.

Among the specific areas of concentration in which the staff is engaged, are such projects as biological and biochemical studies of the effects of microwaves ; ;

study of motor end plates in man and animals ; ;

investigation of respiratory diseases of laboratory animals ; ;

metabolic responses to reduced oxygen tension ; ;

neuropathology of nuclear and cosmic radiation ; ;

carcinoma of prostate ; ;

evaluation of histochemical techniques ; ;

and hip dysplasia in dogs.

There has been an increase in cooperative research with other Federal agencies and civilian institutions.