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VI—Medicine.
PROFESSOR HOWARD.
In this school are taught the principles and the practice
of Medicine, Obstetrics and Medical Jurisprudence. To
allow the medical student time to attain proficiency in
Anatomy and Physiology, Chemistry and Materia Medica,
before he is required to apply these branches in the study
of the principles and the practice of Medicine, the course is
opened with Medical Jurisprudence, which is followed by
Obstetrics, and both are completed before the principles or
the practice of Medicine are entered upon.
MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE.
The lectures on this branch show the aid which legislation
and the administration of the laws derive from medicine,
and consist chiefly in the application of the principles
of medical science to the elucidation and administration of
the laws, and the legal decisions in cases of insanity, every
variety of mental impairment, crime, &c., &c.
Text-Book—The Professor's Quatlines, and Beck or Taylor.
OBSTETRICS.
The lectures on this branch comprehend an account of all
labors, natural, preternatural and instrumental; the professional
assistance to be afforded in each, the treatment of
the female before, during and after delivery, and the diseases
of infancy. The lectures are amply illustrated by
specimens and plates; and all manual evolutions, and the
application of instruments, are demonstrated on the improved
phantome of Hebermehl. The students also practice
manual and instrumental delivery on the manikin.
Text-Book—The last edition of Meigs' Midwifery.
THE PRINCIPLES OF MEDICINE.
The Principles of Medicine, as taught in this school,
comprise General Pathology, and a brief view of General
Therapeutics; also Etiology, Nosology, Semeiology, Diagnosis
and Prognosis. The nature and division of causes
are first considered, which introduces the student to their
effects—disease. Pathology proper is next considered under
the student thoroughly understands the nature of the causes
of diseases, their divisions, modes of operation, and the resulting
effects upon function and structure, a general view
is given of the influences that can be brought to remove or
counteract their effects. and the course on the Principles
is then concluded by the consideration of Nosology, Semeiology,
Diagnosis, Prognosis, and the Different Modes of
Death.
Text-Books—Wood's General Pathology and General Therapeutics,
in the last edition of his Practice.
PRACTICE OF MEDICINE, OR SPECIAL PATHOLOGY AND SPECIAL THERAPEUTICS.
As the most natural and practically useful arrangement,
all local diseases are classified and treated of according to
their locality, or the organ or set of organs which they
affect; whilst general diseases are arranged altogether pathologically.
Much attention is given to Physical Diagnosis.
Pathological Anatomy occupies a conspicuous place in
the course, and is illustrated by Carwell's large and splendid
colored plates, and, when practicable, by specimens.
Text-Book—Wood's Practice of Medicine, last edition.
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