Graduates of 1881-2.

The twenty-first course of instruction will begin on the second Monday of [unclear: September,] 1883, and continue until the end of the college year, the first [unclear: Thursday] June, 1884.

The course is as full and complete as is given in any school in this [unclear: country] The introduction of the graded course, (Junior and Senior classes), requiring [unclear: hghf] (2) terms of nine (9) months each, gives the beginner (Junior) ample time for [unclear: fdgf] thorough investigation of the primary branches of Medicine before entering [unclear: up] page 85 the study of the higher; and also gives the Senior student the opportunity of visiting patients with the members of the Faculty, and reading other works than text-books, The Juniors are not advised to see patients, simply from the fact that they are not prepared to appreciate them; but the more advanced students, who are now able to discriminate between diseases, enjoy most excellent clinical advantages.

The clinical material is obtained from a population of from 1,000 to 1,500 of the poorer class of people of the city and county, who are willing and anxious to obtain the free advice and treatment of the Medical Faculty and students. The physicians of the city give valuable assistance by turning over their pauper patients to the school. Besides, the County Poor-house, to which the Faculty have free access, contains constantly from 50 to 60 inmates. A student is taken directly to the bedside of a patient and the case is placed under his special care.

Experience has demonstrated the practicability of the above plan for obtaining clinical material, and also that the association and relation of the student with the patient is so intimate, that what is not possible in hospital clinics, he becomes familiar with the peculiarities of family practice, which he is to meet in his professional life. The professor of Surgery requires every Senior student to perform on the cadaver, before the members of the clase, all the more common operations; and it is a fact, worthy of notice, that hardly a student has graduated from this school, who did not have under his charge during his senior year, a case of labor.