University of Virginia Library

APPARATUS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

The equipment of the Medical Department in apparatus, specimens
and drawings is extensive and excellent. The collection of paintings
for the illustration of the lectures on Anatomy, Physiology and Surgery,

several hundred in number, is unequalled by anything of the
kind in the United States, or perhaps abroad. A skilful artist was
diligently engaged for six years in executing them under the direction
and critical supervision of the Professors. They delineate the tissues,
muscles, heart and blood vessels, brain, spinal marrow and nerves, the
organs of sense, the thoracic, abdominal and pelvic viscera, and indeed
all the structures and organs of the human body with admirable
accuracy and distinctness, and are of great value as helps to lucid
instruction in the branches to which they relate. In all the other
branches, the appropriate means of illustration of every topic of
discussion are likewise at hand, and are duly utilised.