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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
diseases and accidents incident to pregnancy and the puerperal state. Each
student is also taught practically the various operations, both manual and instrumental.
In Gynæcology instruction is given by lectures and recitations, with practical
training 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. 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; Lusk's Midwifery
(last edition); Osler's Practice of Medicine; Abstract of the Professor's Lectures on Practice;
Page's Physical Diagnosis; Green's Pathology; Lewer's Diseases of Women.
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