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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.