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SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, OBSTETRICS, AND MEDICAL
JURISPRUDENCE.

Prof. Dabney.

I. In Medical Jurisprudence the student is instructed in the principles
of the science, and is taught how to apply these principles when
he is summoned as a witness in a court of law.

II. In Obstetrics instruction is given by lectures, and the mechanical
principles involved in the study are explained and illustrated by the

use of suitable preparations and models. The student is drilled in this
part of the subject during the early part of the course, and attention is
subsequently called to the diseases and accidents incident to pregnancy
and the puerperal state. Each student is also taught practically the
various manipulations, both manual and instrumental.

III. In Practice of Medicine especial attention is given to the principles
of the subject, the aim of the teacher being to instruct the students
as thoroughly as possible in the causation of diseases and the
morbid changes which occur in the different tissues. The lectures are
illustrated by morbid specimens, both coarse and microscopic, and each
student has the opportunity of examining these specimens for himself
Each student furthermore is taught the method of making a physical
examination of a patient, and is required to learn by actual examination;
under the supervision of the Professor, the normal appearances
and sounds in the different regions of the body and over the different
organs.

IV. Classes have also been established in Practical Microscopy
Attendance in these classes is optional, but the desire to make good
use of the opportunity thus offered seems to be general. Each student
is taught practically how to use the microscope, to cut and stain sections
of tissues, to examine urine and blood, etc. In addition to a
knowledge of microscopic manipulation thus obtained, it is found that
students can get a far clearer idea of morbid anatomy and pathology in
this way.

Text-book.—Reese's Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology; Playfair's Midwifery last
edition); Strumpell's Practice of Medicine; Flint's or Loomis's Physical Diagnosis; Grees
Pathology; Friedlander's Practical Microscopy.