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SCHOOL OF PRACTICE OF MEDICINE.

Professor Dabney.

In this School are taught Medical Jurisprudence, Obstetrics, Gynæcology,
and Practice of Medicine.

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 Gynæcology instruction is given by lectures and recitations, with
practical instructions in the details of ordinary gynæcological work.

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. Practical
instruction in Pathology and Morbid Anatomy is given in the Laboratory.

Text-books.—Reese's Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology; Playfair's Midwifery
(last edition); Strümpell's Practice of Medicine; Abstract of the Professor's
Lectures on Practice; Page's Physical Diagnosis; Green's Pathology; Lewer's
Diseases of Women.