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VI.—Medicine.

PROFESSOR HOWARD.

In this school are taught the Principles and the Practice of
Medicine, Obstetrics and Medical Jurisprudence. To allow the
medical student time to attain proficiency in Anatomy and Phy
siology, Chemistry and Materia Medica, before he is required to
apply these branches in the study of the Principles and the
Practice of Medicine, the course is opened with Medical
Jurisprudence, which is followed by Obstetrics, and both are
completed before the Principles or the Practice of Medicine
are entered upon.

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE.

The lectures on this branch show the aid which legislation
and the administration of the laws derive from medicine, and
consist chiefly in the application of the principles of medical
science to the elucidation and administration of the laws, and
the legal decisions in cases of insanity, every variety of mental
impairment, crime, &c. , &c.

Text-Books—the Professor's Outlines, and Beck or Taylor.

OBSTETRICS.

The lectures on this branch comprehend an account of all
labors, natural, preternatural and instrumental; the professional
assistance to be afforded in each, the treatment of the female
before, during and after delivery, and the diseases of infancy.
The lectures are amply illustrated by specimens and plates; and
all manual evolutions, and the application of instruments, are
demonstrated on the improved phantome of Hebermehl. The
students also practice manual and instrumental delivery on the
manikin.

Text-Book—the last edition of Meigs' Midwifery.

THE PRINCIPLES OF MEDICINE.

The Principles of Medicine, as taught in this school, comprise
General Pathology, and a brief view of General Therapeutics;
also Etiology, Nosology, Semeiology, Diagnosis and Prognosis.
The nature and division of causes are first considered, which
Introduces the student to their effects—disease. Pathology proper
is next considered under the two forms, Functional and Structural
diseases. After the student thoroughly understands the
nature of the causes of diseases, their divisions, modes of operation,
and the resulting effects upon function and structure, a
general view is given of the influences that can be brought to
remove or counteract their effects. And the course on the Principles
is then concluded by the consideration of Nosology, Semeiology,
Diagnosis, Prognosis, and the Different Modes of Death.

Text-Books—Wood's General Pathology and General Therapeutics,
in the last edition of his Practice.

PRACTICE OF MEDICINE, OR SPECIAL PATHOLOGY AND SPECIAL THERAPEUTICS.

As the most natural and practically useful arrangement, all
local diseases are classified and treated of according to their
locality, or the organ or set of organs which they affect; whilst
general diseases are arranged altogether pathologically. Much
attention is given to Physical Diagnosis. Pathological Anatomy
occupies a conspicuous place in the course, and is illustrated by
Carswell's large and splendid colored plates, and, when practicable,
by specimens

Text-Book—Wood's Practice of Medicine, last edition.