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VIII.—COMPARATIVE ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY
AND SURGERY.

PROFESSOR CABELL.

The heading indicates the subjects taught in this school, and
the order in which they are discussed.

In the first part of the course, the Professor presents a general
outline of the Animal Kingdom, by demonstrating such of the
leading facts of Comparative Anatomy as may serve to indicate
the natural affinities between the different members of the animal
series, and to furnish a basis for a natural Zoological classification.

In the second division of the course, which is mainly devoted
to the study of Human Physiology, the peculiarities of structure
of inferior animals are again noticed, with reference, especially, to
the varieties of the same organ in different animals, in order to
exhibit the simplest conditions of structure essential to its office,
and to indicate the uses of the superadded parts in the more complicated
forms.

The third portion of the course is exclusively devoted to the
study of the Principles and Practice of Surgery.

Books recommended:—T. R. Jones' General Outline of the
Animal Kingdom and Manual of Comparative Anatomy, Ruschenberger's
Zoology, Carpenter's Elements of Physiology, Miller's
Principles of Surgery, Druitt's Modern Surgery.