ARRANGEMENTS 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.
