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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 50

General Plan of Instruction

General Plan of Instruction.

Instruction in this school is given by lectures, recitations and clinical teaching.

It has been the custom of the Faculty for several years to invite, with the approval of the Local Board, gentlemen from a distance other than the Special Lectures, to visit the College and severally give a series of lectures on some medical subject, that each may select. This has proven to be a great assistance to the Faculty, and of marked benefit to the students. In accordance with this custom, Dr. F. J. Lutz, of St. Louis, Mo., gave a very excellent course of lectures on "Regional Surgery" during the session of 1882-3 and Dr. William Dickinson, of St. Louis, a course on diseases of the eye and its appendages, treating of it as follows:
(1).Anatomy of the eye and its appendages.
(2).Diseases of its component parts and treatment.
(3).Anomalies of refraction and accommodation and correction by appropriate glasses.
(4).The Ophthalmoscope and its uses.

It is expected that these gentlemen will continue their connection with the College.

It has occurred, in an instance of marked interest, that the Diploma of our Missouri University Medical School has been recognized by one of the leading German Universities after careful inquiry, and its holder was, without examination, honored as Doctor of Medicine.

The length of the session, Nine Months, renders it practicable to distribute the different branches among the teachers in the most satisfactory manner, and in their natural order and succession. The student is thoroughly drilled each day by examinations upon the lectures of the previous day, and by recitations from the text-books.

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By this method of teaching, it is claimed that we avoid the process of [unclear: cramming] a deleterious practice, too prevalent in the general system of medical education, [unclear: We] believe that the proposed method of teaching will do more to elevate the standard medical education, and to exalt the dignity of the profession, than any other [unclear: means] that could be adopted. The high standing, throughout the country, of the [unclear: graduate] of the medical department of Virginia University, is sufficient evidence of the [unclear: value] of this method of teaching.

The duties of the school are so distributed as to allow of the study of [unclear: branch] which, while they are of vital importance to the well educated physician, are [unclear: allay] entirely ignored in many of the schools of this country.

Besides the ordinary instruction in Chemistry, a special course is given to [unclear: advanced] students in Toxicology, the material and appliances for teaching which, [unclear: ghghhgghf] not excelled by any institution in the United States.

The students are also taught the use of the microscope, both in relation to [unclear: path] logical and physiological studies. For instruction in this most important and [unclear: beautiful] subject, the students are arranged in classes of five each. Besides the [unclear: microscope] the Department has the benefit of two superior Magic Lanterns. For illustrating [unclear: lectures] with the above instruments, there are over 500 slides.

Among the advantages offered by this school, is the privilege granted [unclear: with] farther cost, to all students who enter the Medical Department, of pursuing [unclear: and] studies as they may desire in the academic course. Or academic students may [unclear: hhghh] Anatomy and Chemistry in the medical course, preparatory to entering on the [unclear: hghhhdsdff] medical course, after graduating in Arts and Science. Some students pursue [unclear: this] plan every year.

A full course of lectures is given on Medical Jurisprudence, to the [unclear: combine] classes in Law and Medicine. When necessary, for the more complete [unclear: understanding] of the subject, the lectures are illustrated by the use of accurate anatomical [unclear: models] and anatomical and physiological instruction is given, incidentally, for the [unclear: speech] benefit of the law students.

This department is equipped with models in clastic and papier mache, [unclear: plastec] casts, drawings and other appliances for the illustration of the lectures on [unclear: anatomy] surgery and physiology.

Among the many valuable preparations for demonstrating anatomy and [unclear: surgery] is Dr. Auzoux's Clastic Man, a complete and accurate model of the male [unclear: human] body. The figure is five feet ten inches in height, and is composed of [unclear: ninety-til] separate parts, which may be detached from one another. It exhibits over [unclear: hghjgh] thousand details of the viscera, muscles, nerves, blood-vessels, etc.; in short, all [unclear: the] is usually embraced in a complete treatise on anatomy.

Also, Auzoux's female pelvis, with the external organs of generation, the [unclear: luc] bar vertebrae, diaphram, muscles, aponeuroses of the perineum, vessels and [unclear: never]

Also, his collection illustrating ovology. These models are on an [unclear: enlarge] scale, and exhibit the modification of the ovum, envelopes and vitelline vesicle. [unclear: etc].

In addition to the above, are eight uteri, in clastic, containing the [unclear: products] conception at the first, second, third, fourth, eighth and ninth months, with [unclear: examples] of tubular and ovarian pregnancy.

Another model, to which we deem it proper to call special attention, is [unclear: the] Auzoux's synthetic model of the brain, which exhibits the structure of that [unclear: org] upon an immensely magnified scale. Designed in conformity with the new [unclear: anatomical] indications furnished by Dr. Luys. this model presents a resume of all the [unclear: meu] page 87 searches of ancient and modern anatomists. This entirely new method of studying the brain opens an immense field for the research of physicians and philosophers.

The models of the Eye and Ear are greatly enlarged and very accurate, showing the complete gross structure of these organs, as described by modern anatomists.

The preparation of the Head is most admirably executed. The bones are disarticulated, and mounted according to the method of Beauchene.

Besides these invaluable models and preparations, we have a complete set of the German anatomical models, in plastic, made at Leipsic.

No physician can truthfully claim to be cultivated in his profession who is ignorant of the history of its rise and progress, and of the grounds upon which rests its claims to rank among the sciences. Nor is any man thoroughly qualified to practice medicine, who is ignorant of the science of Psychology. The lectures on psychological medicine are illustrated by models and drawings, of the most accurate and artistic construction. An epitome of the Science of Psychology, in a course of twelve lectures, will be given to the class next year by Dr. Laws.