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X.—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 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; Kirke's and Paget's Human Physiology; Druitt's
Modern Surgery.