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SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, OBSTETRICS AND MEDICAL
JURISPRUDENCE.

Professor Dabney.

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.

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.

In Practice of Medicine especial attention is given to the principles
of the subject, the aim 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
the 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.

Classes have also been established in Practical Microscopy. Attendance
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-books.—Reese's Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology; Playfair's Midwifery (last
edition); Strümpell's Practice of Medicine; Page's Physical Diagnosis; Green's Pathology;
Lewer's Diseases of Women.