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VII.—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
seneral outline of the Animal Kingdom, by demonstrating
such of the leading facts of Comparative Anatomy as may
derve 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 condition
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.

Text-Books—The Professor's "Syllabus of Lectures on
Comparative Anatomy and Physiology;" Carpenter's Elements
of Physiology; Kirkes and Paget's Human Physiology;
Druitt's Modern Surgery.