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MEDICINE.
Professor Griffith.—This School is also composed of two classes;
one of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and Obstetrics, to which
three lectures a week are given throughout the session; the other of Medical
Jurisprudence, to which three lectures a week are given during two
months.
The course on the Theory and Practice of Medicine, is commenced with
an exposition of the principles of Pathology and Therapeutics, after which the
functional and organic lesions of the various tissues and organs are successively
considered, and their sympathetic relations and influences carefully explained—after
which the subject of fevers is treated on in much detail. By the
adoption of this plan, the student becomes familiar with the local and general
phenomena attendant on particular lesions, before he is called upon to
included in febrile diseases.
The lectures on Obstetrics comprehend an account of natural and other
labours, and the professional assistance to be afforded in each; the treatment
of the female before and after delivery, and the diseases of infancy.
These lectures are amply illustrated by specimens and plates, and the application
of instruments is exemplified on the mannikin.
The lectures on Medical Jurisprudence are delivered three times a week
during two months, and include a full consideration of the various topics
on which medicine is called upon to aid in the administration of the laws
and the detection of crime.
Text-books recommended (Medicine, &c.) Andral's Pathological Anatomy;
Hall on Diagnosis; Mackintosh's Practice of Medicine; Stokes's
Lectures. (Obstetrics,) Dewee's, Gooch or Meig's Midwifery. (Medical
Jurisprudence,) Beck or Ryan.
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