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MEDICINE.

Professor Griffith.—This School is also composed of two classes; one
of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and Obstetrics, to which three lectures
a week are given throughout the session; the other of Medical Jurisprudence,
to which three lectures a week are given during two months.

The course on the Theory and Practice of Medicine, is commenced with an
exposition of the principles of Pathology and Therapeutics, after which the
functional and organic lesions of the various tissues and organs are successively
considered, and their sympathetic relations and influences carefully explained—
after which the subject of fevers is treated on in much detail. By the adoption
of this plan, the student becomes familiar with the local and general phenomena
attendant on particular lesions, before he is called upon to investigate

the nature, and treatment of the complicated groups of symptoms, included in
febrile diseases.

The lectures on Obstetrics comprehend an account of natural and other labours,
and the professional assistance to be afforded in each; the treatment of
the female before and after delivery, and the diseases of infancy. These lectures
are amply illustrated by specimens and plates, and the application of instruments
is exemplified on the mannikin.

The lectures on Medical Jurisprudence are delivered three times a week
during two months, and include a full consideration of the various topics on
which medicine is called upon to aid in the administration of the laws and the
detection of crime.

Text-books recommended: (Medicine, &c.) Andral's Pathological Anatomy;
Hall on Diagnosis; Mackintosh's Practice of Medicine; Stokes's Lectures.
(Obstetrics,) Dewee's, Gooch's or Meig's Midwifery. (Medical Jurisprudence,)
Beck or Ryan.