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X.—COMPARATIVE ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY AND
SURGERY.
PROFESSOR CABELL.
In this school three successive courses of lectures are delivered,
and in connection with the daily lectures, searching examinations
are given at each meeting of the class.
The first of these courses is devoted to a detailed exposition of
the facts and principles of Human Histology and Physiology,
with their applications to Hygeine, or the Art of Preserving
Health, and to the laws and treatment of disease.
Next in order, the Professor presents a general Outline of
the Animal Kingdom, by demonstrating such of the leading
facts of Comparative Anatomy as may suffice to indicate the
natural affinities of the different members of the Animal Series,
and to furnish a basis for a natural zoological classification,
according to the system recently expounded by Prof. Agassiz, in
his Essay on Classification. Further details, relating to the
peculiarities of structure exhibited by the inferior animals, are
presented in connection with the study of Comparative Physiology,
the different functions of life which had been regarded
with exclusive reference to the conditions under which they are
executed by man, being now considered with reference to the
varieties of mechanism characterizing other animals.
The third and last course of lectures includes a thorough exposition
of the principles of Surgery, viewed as a Science and as an
Art.
Text Books.—Carpenter's Elements of Physiology; Kirke's
Manual of Physiology; Gould and Agassiz's Comparative Physiology;
Druitt's Modern Surgery.
Books of Reference.—Draper's Physiology; Dalton's Physiology;
Carpenter's Human Physiology; Owen's Homologies of
the Vertebrate Skeleton; Agassiz's Essay on Classification;
Erichsen's Science and Art of Surgery; H. H. Smith's Surgery;
Gross' Surgery.
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