Annual announcement of lectures, etc / by the trustees and professors ... for the year MDCCCXXXII.

  • Jefferson Medical College
Date:
1832
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    and its different tissues. Age, sex, temperament, habits, occupations, &c., will all be considered as important objects of inquiry. The first division of the course will comprehend all the effects of injuries upon the system, both general and local. Irritation in the sensitive nerves, in the nerves of voluntary motion, and in the nerves of organic life. Constitutional irritation, in its various forms, as distinguished from the primary shocks communicated to the system by irritants. Inflammation, its states, symptoms, consequences, and treatment. Phlegmon, erysipelas, &c. Effects of burns, frost, &,c. Mortification, ulcers, their characters and treatment. Second division.—Specific diseases, including syphilis, scrofula, medullary tumours, carcinoma, &c. Third division.—Wounds, accidents, and diseases of the bones and joints. Incised, lacerated, punctured, gun-shot, and poisoned wounds. Injuries of the head, including fractures of the skull. Fractures of the different bones. The diseases of the bones. Dislocations of the different joints. Diseases of the joints. Fourth division.—Diseases of the different systems, and operations for their removal or relief.—a. Vascular system, including aneurisms, &e.—h. Glandular, including diseases of the mamm©, testes, &c.—c. Urinary Organs. Lithotomy, passage of the catheter, &c.—d. Abdominal Viscera. Hernia, &c.—e. Thoracic Viscera. Laryngotomy, Paracentesis, &c.—f. Mouth and nose.—g. Diseases of the Eye, and its appendages.— h. Diseases of the Organ of hearing. JCheorg anti practice of Pigstcfe. John Revere, M. D., Professor. Since Medicine has aspired to the rank of a Science, all Systematic Writers and Teachers of the Theory and Practice of Physick have assumed that their Systems were the true ‘physiological doctrines. Pathology, which is but Morbid Physiology, and The¬ rapeutics, which professes to rectify by art diseased derangements, are indissolubly connected, and necessarily parts of one whole. But in a science like Medicine, which is still in a forming state, where many of its doctrines must at present be considered rather as assumed propositions, than demonstrated truths, all attempts at fixed systems must be necessarily vacillating and imperfect, and will probably be admitted by all to have heretofore rather retarded than advanced the Science. With these views, the Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physick, without acknowledging himself the champion of any particular sect or doctrines, will endeavour to make his Pupils ac¬ quainted with the actual .state of our knowledge in this department. He will endea¬ vour to do this in language as much divested as possible of hypothetical assumptions, endeavouring, as lie proceeds, to enable the Student to distinguish what is known, from what is conjectured. The following will constitute a brief outline of the course he proposes to pursue.— After laying down more at large the principles by which he conceives all medical in¬ vestigations should be governed, he will commence with general views respecting the physiology and pathology of the circulating organs. Inflammation, the pulse, and blood-letting, will be considered \jnder this head. Inflammation of the different tissues will then be examined, preceded by general physiological views of the cerebral, respi¬ ratory, and digestive apparatus. Idiopathic Fevers and the Exanthematous Disorders will constitute the next division of the Lectures. The last will be taken up in the consideration of Functional Diseases, attended with doubtful or not appreciable changes of structure. It will constitute a leading object of these Lectures to connect the phy¬ siology of the diseased organs with the pathological phenomena, and changes of struc¬ ture as ascertained by the highest authorities, and to deduce from them the Therapeu¬ tic methods, as far as is warranted by the present state of our knowledge. —* ■»►© © ©<<««— JUaterta JHrttca anlj Ptavniacg. Samuel Colhoun, M. D., Professor. The Lectures on 'Materia Medic a and Pharmacy commence with a general inquiry into the nature of the Animal Economy. This interesting subject having been shortly investigated, the Professor proceeds to the proper business of his Course, the consideration of the Properties of Remedies, and their Pharmaceutical Prepa¬ rations. The operation of medicinal substances on the living system, is fully discussed. The effects of diet employed both as a preventive and curative agent, in the Practice of
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