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MEDICINE.

Professor Howard.—This school is 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
a description of the Semiology, Diagnosis, Physical and Functional,
and the Ætiology of disease; then an exposition of the principles of Pathology
and Therapeutics is given, after which the functional and organic
lesions of the various tissues and organs are successively considered, and
their sympathetic relations and influences carefully explained; the subject
of fevers is next 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 on 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 improved phantome of the ingenious
Hebermehl, upon which are taught the management of all cases of labour,
natural or preternatural; all of which operations the student is required to
perform in the presence, and under the direction of the Professor—a species
of instruction which qualifies him, when he enters on the practice of
his profession, to rank, in this department, with practitioners of many
years' experience.

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: M. Hall's Theory
and Practice of Medicine. Andral's Pathology, and Stoke's Lectures—
Dewees', Velpeau's or Burns' Midwifery. Beck's Medical Jurisprudence.