JEFFERSON  MEDICAL.  COLLEGE,






       SPRING  ANNOUNCEMENT

                   OF   LECTURES.

                            MDCCCXXXIII.

                         PROFESSORS.

ANATOMY.—GRANVILLE SHARP PATTISON, M. D.
SURGERY.—GEORGE M'CLELLAN, M.  1).
THEORY AND PRACTICE OF PHYSIC—JOHN REVERE, M.  D.
MATERIA MEDICA AND PHARMACY.—SAMUEL COLHOUN, M. D.
CHEMISTRY.—JACOB  GREEN, M. D.
MIDWIFERY AND DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN__SAMUEL
    M'CLELLAN,  M. D.
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  The Trustees and Professors of Jefferson Medical College in their "An-
nual Announcement" for the tear MDCCCXXXII. promulgated to the Profes-
sion their intention to establish for the future, a Spring Course of Lectures, to
commence in each year the 1st of April, and terminate the 1st of June.  In the
publication referred to, the proposed Course of Lectures was introduced to the
attention of the Profession, with the following observations:
  "The object of the Professors of Jefferson  Medical College being to raise
the standard of Medical Education, they will  in  future deliver two Courses
of Lectures annually. The first, or regular Academical Course,  will  com-
mence on the first Monday of November, and terminate the first of March.  The
second, or Collateral Course will commence the first of April,  and  terminate
the first of June.
  "The only Lectures which it will be obligatory on the Students to  attend, to
enable  them to fulfil the requirements of the Charter,  will be the regular  Aca-
demical Courses  of Lectures, in which the different subjects taught, will  be
treated as fully as the time will admit of, and as completely as they are in any
Institution in this country.  In respect, therefore, to the obligations imposed on
the Students before they can graduate, they will not differ from  those which
are imposed on candidates for graduation  in the most distinguished Medical
Schools in this country.
  "Attendance on the Second, or Collateral Course of Lectures, will be left
entirely to the option of the Students.
  "As a stimulus to the Students, to induce them to avail themselves of the more
extended Course of Education, which will be open to them, it is proposed  by
the Professors to hold an examination at the termination of the Second Course,
and to award to the more distinguished  pupils,  Medals and Certificates of Ho-
nour.   To each class, three Medals will be awarded.   The first medal will be
given to the Student whose written Answers place him at the head of his class,
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and the second and third to the two who follow next in order.  Besides the
Medals, Certificates of Honour will be given to those, the excellence of whose
Answers entitle them to such a distinction.
  "As the system which will be pursued in conducting these examinations  is
somewhat peculiar, the Professors trust they will be excused for shortly detailing
the plan to the Members of the Profession, and they hope it will meet with their
support and approbation.
  "A day will be fixed at the termination of the Second Course, as a day of ex-
amination for each class, and each Professor will have, privately, prepared and
printed a list of questions on the subjects of his particular department.  His
pupils being assembled in one of the Theatres of the Institution, and provided
with writing  materials, care being taken that they have no books to  refer to, the
Professor will himself deliver to each  Student a list of the Questions which he
will be expected to Answer in writing.  Eight hours will be allowed for answer-
ing the Questions, and  no Student will be permitted to leave the Hall, or com-
municate with any person on the subject of his Answers, until he has written
them out.  To secure a faithful adherence with this regulation, the Professor
will himself remain in the room with his  Students, until the examination  shall
be  concluded.  When the Student shall  have written his Answers,  he will
deposit the book which contains them in a box, and he will then be at liberty to
retire.  The  books of Answers being mixed by shaking the box, will be sent to
the dwelling  of the Professor, to be by him carefully examined; and the order of
the Medals and Honours will  be determined by the superior excellence of the
Answers.
  "To prevent the Students, or their friends, from entertaining even a suspicion
that the Professor may have been guided from any feeling of preference, in the
distributions of the Medals and Honours of his Class, the different books which
contain the answers will have no name attached to them.  They will be simply
designated by mottos—each pupil having previously to the day of examination,
sent to the Dean of the Medical Faculty, a sealed letter, which contains his name;
and which has written on the address, his motto. These letters will remain sealed
until the day fixed for a Public Ceremonial, when, in the presence of the Trustees
of the College and the Public, the Medals and Honours will be awarded to the
successful candidates.  For example, let us suppose, that the book of Answers
in the Anatomical class, which bears the motto—"Labor omnia  vincit,'' is con-
sidered by the Professor ot Anatomy as the one which exhibits the highest excel-
lence in his department, he will announce,  on the day of the Public  Ceremonial,
the fact.  The Dean will immediately open the letter which bears that motto on
its superscription, and the gentleman who has written the Answers, will be called
up, and the first medal delivered to him, in the presence of his friends and com-
panions. Until this moment, therefore, the fact as to who may be  the success-
ful candidate, will be unknown.
  "To give an idea of the mode in which the Questions will be proposed, a few
are subjoined, which might be put by the  Professor of Anatomy.
  "1.  Describe the phenomena of ossification, and state the period at which it
commences in the  Foetus, and the mode in which the phosphate of lime is de-
posited in the three classes of bones—the long, the flat, and the short bones.
  "2.  Describe the arrangement and distribution of the Arteriesin the longbones.
  "3.  Describe the Muscles of the Tongue, their origins and insertions, and state
the relations and connexions v/hich they bear to each other, and to  the Arteries
and  Nerves of that Organ.
  "4.  Describe the origin, course, connexions and distribution of the branches of
the Nervus Vagus.
  "It will be observed, that the object which the Professor aims at, in his  Que-
ries, is to avoid putting leading questions, and to afford an  opportunity to the
distinguished student of  showing the extent and  accuracy of his anatomical
knowledge.  The  last query, although shortly put, would  be  expected  to
require an explanation  of the  following  facts.   The  origin of the nerve—the
foramen it passes through—its connexions in the neck—the manner it enters
the thorax—the connexions and relations it there forms—the branches and
plexuses it furnishes in its progress through the chest—the opening by which it 
enters the abdomen;  and lastly, its terminating branches.  The questions, as
applied to their several departments, will be put with similar views by the dif-
ferent Professors."

  In the foregoing extract, the objects contemplated by the Trustees and Pro-
fessors of  Jefferson Medical College in  the  establishment of  a Spring
Course of Lectures, are briefly detailed.  The intention of this  "announce-
ment" is to state more fully the system which will be pursued, and the advanta-
ges which may be expected, by those gentlemen who enrol themselves as Mem-
bers of the Spring Course of Lectures.
  It is unnecessary for the Professors of Jefferson Medical College to enlarge on
the fact, that in the short term of four months, the term of the Winter Session of
Lectures, it is impossible for the Teachers to do justice to all the subjects which
are embraced in their several departments.  Many subjects must be left without
being even noticed; and others can only receive a very cursory attention.
  The object which will be aimed at by the Professors in their Spring Lectures will
be to remedy this defect.   To enter on a discussion of those departments which
their time during the liegular Session, did not permit them to consider, and to bring
forward in full relief, those points which had only been very briefly noticed.  But
besides doing so, they will be at pains to bring before their students again, those
important topics, to which much attention had been devoted during the Regular
Lectures and to enforce the great and fundamental  Principles of Medical  Sci-
ence.
   There  are three classes  of  Students, on  whose  attention  they  would, in
an especial manner, wish to impress the advantages which may  be derived from
an attendance on the  Spring Course of Lectures.
   First.  Junior Students, who have not yet attended  Medical  Lectures.
The benefits which this Class of Pupils will derive from an attendance on these
Lectures, are too palpable to require arguments to  enforce them.   By a veiy
small  sacrifice of time, the young gentlemen who  have just  commenced the
study of their Profession, will obtain  incalculable benefits.  Their minds will
become familiarized with the technicalities of  Medical Science.  How deeply,
and how painfully do  all  Junior Students feel the difficulties  of their  studies
enhanced, on first commencing an attendance on the  Winter Lectures, by their
 entire ignorance of the very language of the Science, on the cultivation of
which  they  have entered.   It is true they  may have read in the offices of
their Preceptors,  and from such  reading, under the direction of  an intelli-
gent Practitioner,  as applied  to  some of the departments,  they  may have
acquired  much valuable information, but in others, reading is worse than
useless.  In Anatomy, for example,  what  advantage  can   Students  derive
 from reading the  description  of  parts  which they  have never  seen,  and
 which are not present for examination?  They will, no doubt, form in their
 minds  a  picture of  the parts described,  but, it  will be entirely different
 from that of the natural structure, and it will require much trouble  to ob-
 literate it, before they will be prepared for the reception of the truth.  They
 will in  fact require to unlearn much of that which has cost them great  labour
 to acquire,  before they will be prepared to study their  profession with  advan-
 tage.   From their ignorance of technicalities,  and from erroneous impressions
 received  from the want  of having before them  the material objects of their
 studies, the Junior Student very often loses many of the advantages which he
 would otherwise have obtained from the Lectures which he attends during the first
 Session of his Collegiate studies. By devoting two months to an attendance on the
 Spring Lectures, he  will be prepared to enter with  advantage at once on an
 attendance on the  Lectures of the  Regular Session.
   Secondly. Students who have attended one Course of Lectures,  by availing
 themselves of the advantages proffered by the Spring Course, will  be enabled
 to  review the important  subjects which  they  have  heard discussed  in the
 Winter Lectures.   The information they have received will be  revived, difficul-
 ties will be  removed, and precise and accurate knowledge obtained.  Instead
 of returning to the second Session of Lectures, with merely dreamy recollec-
 tions of what they have been before taught, they will enter on them with a well
 grounded knowledge of the Elements of Medical Science, and  with their minds 
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prepared for the investigation and reception of the higher and more abstruse
Principles of their Profession.
  Lastly. The Students who have finished their attendance on the regular Courses
of Lectures, which are required as a qualification for Graduation, will, in many
instances,  do well to attend the Spring Course before they present themselves
for Examination.  By doing so, they will only be required to remain in the city
for three months longer than they had contemplated, and surely when the benefits
which they may obtain are taken into account, these will be  allowed to be well
worthy of the sacrifice of time which will be required.   From the number of
Lectures attended by the Students during the Winter Session, and from the en-
tire engrossment of their time, it is impossible even for the most systematic and
diligent so to arrange their knowledge, as to  enable them with confidence to
come forward for their  examination.   But if they are allowed the  month of
March for the review of their notes, and shall from such  a review become
themselves aware of the deficiency of their information on certain topics, they will
by  attending the Spring Course of Lectures be enabled to supply the desiderata,
and at their termination, animated by a consciousness of their being prepared for
the ordeal through which they have to pass, they must go through it with satis-
faction to themselves, with gratification to their Preceptors, and with honour
to the reputation of their Alma Mater.
  An examination of those  Students who postpone their  Graduation until after
the termination of the Spring Course of Lectures, will commence on the 1st
of June, and so soon as it has been finished, a Public Ceremonial will be holden
for the  purpose of conferring  their  degrees,  and awarding the Medals and
Certificates pf Honour to the successful competitors.
  The Professors consider it unnecessary to give a detailed account of the sub-
jects which they will discuss in their several Courses.  They conceive that the
general statement of the views which will guide them, which they have furnish-
ed in this Announcement, will be sufficient to convey the necessary information
to the members of the Profession.  It may, however, be stated, that the Profes-
sor of Anatomy will embrace in his  Course, demonstrations of the Surgical
Anatomi of the different Surgical Regions of the Human Body.
  PROFESSOR  PATTISON'S  SYSTEM  OF  ANATOMY.

JAMES TOWAR, No.  19 St. James Street, Philadelphia, will  shortly put
                to press and publish, a work to be entitled

         THE ANATOMY OF THE HUMAN BODY.

described with a  view  to its surgical and physiological  relations
                           and  connexions,
                   Illustrated by Numerous Engravings,
             BY GRANVILLE  SHARP  PATTISON, M. D.

           PROFESSOR OF ANATOMY  IN JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE,
Fellow of the Royal College  of Surgeons;  Member of the Medico-Chirurgical
  and VVestminsler Medical Societies of London; Member of the Societe Yhyl
  lomatique; and Societe" Medicale D'Emulation of Paris; Member of the Wer-
  nerian Society of Natural  History of Edinburgh;  and Member of the Fa-
  culty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.
                          DR. REVERE,
PROFESSOR  OF  THE THEORY AND  PRACTICE  OF PHYSIC IN  JEFFER
                         COLLEGE, PHILADELPHIA,
Is preparing for the press a work, on the Eademic Diseases or
                                States.