Lectures on the American eclectic system of surgery / by Benjamin L. Hill.

  • Hill, B. L. (Benjamin L.)
Date:
1850
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    ECLECTIC MEDICAL INSTITUTE OF CINCINNATI Circular for 1849-50. The next course of Lectures in this Institution, will commence on the first Mon- day of November, 1850, and continue until the 15th of March, 1851. A gratuitous preliminary course will commence the first Monday of October, and continue one month. The Faculty of the Institute will be arranged as follows : HORATIO P. GATCHELL, M. D., Prof. Special, General, and Pathological Anatomy. JOSEPH R. BUCHANAN, M. D., Prof. Physiology, and Institutes of Medicine. THOMAS V. MORROW, M. D., Prof. Theory and Practice of Medicine and Pathology. STORM ROSA, M. D., Prof. Principles and Practice of Homeopathy. BENJAMIN L. HILL, M. D., Prof. Surgery and Obstetrics. LORENZO E. JONES, M. D., Prof Materia .Medica, Therapeutics, and Med. Botany. JOHN B. STALLO, A. M., Prof. Chemistry, Pharmacy, and Medical Jurisprudence. JAMES MILOT, M. D., Demonstrator of Anatomy, and Surgical Prosector. This Institution was chartered by the Legislature of Ohio in 1845, and is under the control of an efficient Board of Trustees, who, in conjunction with the Faculty, have full powers to confer all the degrees that are conferred by any medical college in the United States. Since the establishment of the Institute in 1845, the total number of its matriculated students has been 618—a number unequaled by any Western school in the same length of time from its foundation. In four years it has risen to be the fifth American school in number of matriculated students, and eighth in number of graduates. All departments of medical science are carefully taught by a course of six or seven daily lectures, witli critical examinations, and a weekly medical and surgical clinique. Not only are the common elenaents of medical science taught (which are accessible in other schools and in the standard text-books,) but a very large amount of interesting and necessary knowledge is imparted, which is not attainable in old schools. Important discoveries in the physiology of the nervous system (not yet in print,) an extensive knowledge of our indigenous botanic materia medica, and an American system of medical practice, which changes for the better three-fourths of the details of the healing art, have constituted tlie attractions of the Institute. The superiority of the Eclectic system of Therapeutics, Surgery, and Obstetrics, has caused its rapid diff'usion throughout the United States ; and at the present time there is a tnuch greater demand for educated Eclectic practitioners than can be sup- plied for years. The City Cholera Hospital of Cincinnati, under the control of Eclectic physicians, exhibited about one-half of the mortality of hospitals under the old practice ; and the private treatment of cholera, by Eclectic physicians, in Cin- cinnati, exhibits a mortality of but 4}.^ per cent, in more than fifteen hundred cases. In other diseases the Eclectic treatment presents a similar superiority. The leading principle of Eclecticism is to select liberally from all sources the best methods of treatment ; but to reject all dangerous and deleterious methods which impair the vital powers of the patient. Hence the mercurial, antimonial, blood-letting system of treatment, being replaced by better agencies, is regarded as unnecessary and obsolete. In addition to the above, the Homeopathic practice, which has everywhere proved far superior to the Allopathic, either in hospital or in private ])ractice (a knowledge of which is indispensable to a thorough medical education,) is fully taught in the Institnte, by an able Homeopathic practitioner, unanimously nominated for the post by the Western Homeopathic Convention. Candidates for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, must have attained the age of twenty-one years; and, in addition to the usual preliminary study, have attended two courses of lectures on each of the departments of medical science in this or some legally incorporated medical school, the last of which shall be in this ; and must be competent to sustain a thorough examination before the Faculty. Four years' reputable practice, and an attendance on one full course in this Institution, also entitles the student to become a candidate for graduation. Expenses.—The tickets of Professors ($10 each) amount to $70, (according to the arrangement for 1850-51, only $60 will be charged if paid in advance); the Matriculation fee is $5; the Demonstrator's ticket .$5; the Library ticket (optional) $2. Any student, by paying $100 in advance, will secure the right to attend as many courses as are necessary for the completion of his studies (graduation and matriculation fees not included). T. V. MORROW, M. D., Dean of the Faculty. I ni (]';-! I/, ■■<),!