ARRANGEMENT OF STUDIES.
The length of the session (nine months) renders it convenient and
eligible to distribute the subjects of instruction among a smaller number
of Professors than in the other medical schools of the United States,
whose sessions are only four or five months long. Thus, to one Professor
is assigned Physiology and Surgery; to another, Human Anatomy
and Materia Medica; to a third, Chemistry and Pharmacy; and to a
fourth, Medical Jurisprudence, Obstetrics, and the Practice of Medicine.
This distribution renders it practicable to bring the different subjects to
the attention of the student in their natural and successive order. The
arrangement of the lectures is such that he acquires a competent knowledge
of Anatomy, Physiology and Chemistry, before he enters upon the
study of the principles and practice of Medicine and Surgery, which can
only be studied properly in the lights shed upon them by the former.
The instructions in Materia Medica and Pharmacy are also given in due
relation to the progress of the student in Chemistry.
