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VIII.—ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, AND SURGERY.

PROFESSOR CABELL.

There are two classes in this school, one of Anatomy and
Surgery, the other of Physiology.

In the former the lectures are illustrated by the demonstration

of wet and dry anatomical preparations, by the use of the best
drawings, and especially by dissections of fresh subjects, with
which the school is abundantly supplied.

As, owing to the length of the session, the medical students
attend but two lectures a day, ample time is allowed them for
private dissection.

In the lectures on Physiology are considered, after a brief
notice of the structure of the human organs, their functions, or
the actions by which they fulfil special offices in the economy of
the human system, the mode in which these actions are accomplished,
and the influence of external agents, as well as of the
reaction of the organs on each other, whether as healthful stimuli
or sources of disease. The Professor aims to adapt his lectures
in this class to the wants of the unprofessional student, who may
desire to include in a course of liberal education an acquaintance
with the general principles of the science of life.

In the class of Anatomy and Surgery, the students are examined
during the first half of the session on the Professor's
lectures, and on some approved treatise on Human Anatomy
recently published, such as Goddard's Wilson's Anatomy, Pancoast's
Wistar's Anatomy, Horner's General and Special Anatomy,
or Pattieson's Cruveilhier's Anatomy. In the last half of
the session this class studies Surgery, and is examined on the
Professor's lectures and on Druitt's Modern Surgery.

The examinations on Physiology are on the Professor's lectures
and on some one of the recent works on this science, such as
Dunglison's Human Physiology, or Carpenter's Human Physiology.