THE GITTOITTIsr^TI 
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE, 
AND 
PHYSIO-MEDICAL COLLEGE. 
The Subscriber will commence, on the first Tuesday in January, 1872, to a class of Ladies, 
already engaged, a Regular course of Lectures on the Science of life; involving the consideration 
of all the subjects that are very essential to the preservation of health and the cure of disease. 
He will be aided, as it becomes necessary, by competent Professors. 
The Lectures will continue twenty weeks, within which time will be taught all that is es- 
sential to enable diligent and faithful students to take good care of their own health and lives 
and those of their families, and of others, if they choose. Those who do not want the whole 
course, may attend any part of it. An extensive practice for nearly forty years, has convinced 
us that seven tenths of the present suffering and premature deaths of females and their children, 
from diseases peculiar to them, might be prevented by obedience to the instructions that will 
be given in this course of leetures. 
All other sciences than Medicine, have been so simplified, by discoveries and experiments, 
that they require of students far less time and labor than they formerly did, to become well 
acquainted with them. The declaration that Medicine requires longer time and severer 
application, is proof that what is called Medicine is not a science; and the miserable fail- 
ures every day occurring, prove that its practice is not an art. 
That the Physio-Medical System is the true science and art of healing, is fully proved 
by the practice of the ladies who have exercised it, and will be by all who shall attend the 
course of Lectures here enunciated, and do justice to their opportunities. They will learn 
to prevent seven-tenths of all their present sufferings from disease, and to cure ninety-nine- 
hundreths of the cases that do occur, at an expense of time and money less than the cost of a 
good piano and five months practice on it. 
What other present so valuable can a person give to a daughter or a female friend? Music 
is interesting, good and useful, but not indispensable. The science of life is invaluable; 
it is not only the preserver of health, it is a means of support. They who possess it need 
never sing “The Song of the Shirt.” They can always secure a good living by its practice, 
one of the noblest of all employments. Their services as physicians are wanted everywhere 
and the compensations are more liberal than are those of any other employment. 
TERMS. 
Tickets to the Course - - - - $50. OO 
Books, $20 to 30 OO 
Diploma, if deserred - - • » $25 OO 
Boarding, etc., per week, «. . §5 to 7 OO 
BOOKS BY A. CURTIS, M. D. 
Criticisms on nil the Popular Systems of 
Medicine $1 50 
Theory and Practice of Medicine, . $5 OO 
Obstetrics, etc., OO 
M‘dical Discussions, 81 25 
These are the most reliable standard works on true Medical Science and Practice. No 
family should hesitate to procure them as a life insurance company that will seldom fail. 
Sold by the author, No. 162 Longworth Street. Sent pqst-paid to all parts of the United 
States, on receipt of the above prices. 
Address: A. CURTIS, M. D., Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Or come to his residence, as above, by the John Street Cars. 
A Popular Normal School. 
In addition to the Medical Department, arrangements are made with Teachers of the first 
order, to instruct classes or individuals, in any department of Science, Art, Language or Liter- 
ature, that may be desired. 
Notwithstanding the general excellence and extent of the instructions in our schools and 
colleges, it is well known that, from all these, manjr Students, for various reasons, after passing 
through the whole course of studies, are very deficient in their knowledge of many of the 
subjects included in it, and have wasted much time, labor andmoney, on others of little value, 
to the neglect of what should be thoroughly known in its principles, and familiar to the prac- 
tice, of every youth whatever be his circumstances or the course of life he desires to pursue. 
It is further known, that the methods of teaching much that is really valuable, are too gen- 
erally such that the acquisition is painful, protracted, and almost useless; instead of being, as 
it might be, pleasant, rapid and profitable, by a proper method of instruction. The popular meth- 
ods are more abstract than practical, and therefore the attainments are superficial and soon for- 
gotten. For example: 
Pure mathematics is taught before applied; and grammar, reading and translations of dead 
languages as such, instead of, or in preference to, studying them for their instructions in sci- 
ence, and their contributions to our own language, and the mere reading and translation- 
of modern languages, instead of speaking and writing them: the only thing that gives them 
either interest or value. In short, the popular educational error consists in the teaching of sci- 
ence and art through languages, instead of teaching them through their proper objects, and lan. 
guages through them as their media of communication and preservation. 
In our Normal School, the pupil may choose his subjects of sutdy, and the above popular 
method of teaching will be reversed. Scientific principles will be taught by experiments that 
illustrate them; arts, by the practice of them; and languages, by speaking and writing them; 
thus making languages the servants of education and instruction, not their masters. 
Students of any age or condition, and seeking any species of knowledge, maybe received at 
any time, and the prices of instruction will correspond to its cost, which will be in the inverse 
ratio of the numbers that apply. Address, or call upon, 
A. CURTIS, A. M., M. D. 162 Longworth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.