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SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, OBSTETRICS, AND MEDICAL
JURISPRUDENCE.

Prof. Dabney.

I. In Medical Jurisprudence the student is instructed in the principles
of the science, and is taught how to apply these principles when he
is summoned as a witness in a court of law.

II In Obstetrics instruction is given by lectures, and the mechanical
principles involved in the study are explained and illustrated by the use
of suitable preparations and models. The student is drilled in this part
of the subject during the early part of the course, and attention is subsequently
called to the diseases and accidents incident to pregnancy and
the puerperal state. Each student is also taught practically the various
manipulations, both manual and instrumental.

III. In Practice of Medicine especial attention is given to the Principles
of the subject, the aim of the teacher being to instruct the students
as thoroughly as possible in the causation of diseases and the morbid
changes which occur in the different tissues. The lectures are illustrated
by morbid specimens, both coarse and microscopic, and each student has
the opportunity of examining these specimens for himself. Each student
furthermore is taught the method of making a physical examination of a
patient, and is required to learn by actual examination, under the supervision
of the Professor, the normal appearances and sounds in the different
regions of the body and over the different organs.

IV. Classes have also been established in Practical Microscopy.
Attendance in these classes is optional, but the desire to make good use
of the opportunity thus offered seems to be general. Each student is

taught practically how to use the microscope, to cut and stain sections of
tissues, to examine urine and blood, etc. In addition to a knowledge of
microscopic manipulation thus obtained, it is found that students can get
a far clearer idea of morbid anatomy and pathology in this way. There
is no fee for this course.

Text-books:—Reese's Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology; Playfair's Midwifery
(last edition); Loomis's Practice of Medicine; Flint's or Loomis's Physical Diagnosis;
Green's Pathology; Friedlander's Practical Microscopy.