Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-10-17
su,, MEDICAL Co1LroE.-The Prelimin-


ary Course of Lectures of the second session
in this institution has commenced with
poodIy number of students in attendance, to
which additions are constantly being made.
The prospects of the College are, NE are glad
to saw. fattering in the highest degree. 1t is
natural that such should be the case, for
there is no institution in the South possessing
greater advantages, or affording better facili-
ties for imparting comprehensive and tho
rough knowledge of the medical science In
all its branches. Its advantages consist, in
part, of It's very able Faculty; its extensive
aud conveniently arranged buildings; its
HospitaI, where the student is taught prac-
teal know ledge of medicine and surgery; Its
splendid Museum; its extensive Laboratory,
&c. &c. The members of the Faculty are:
THOMAS l. MADDEN, u d., Professor of Anatomy (De-
ss-,utlye astrological an Surgical
JogS FRrpEsicx MAY, N. D., Professor OF Principles
aud Practice Of surgery
M,.db;l ami Tucra Jeutcs.
f. b HAsKISs, II. D.. Professor OF Theory and Prac-
tics o Medicine.
HkNEI EK>I, VI. D.. Professor OF Medical Chemistry
aud Me'iic.il Jurisprudcnc".
DAMEi f. WEIGHT ii. D., Professor Of Physiology and
Pathology.
I.
Disease OF Won EN- aud Children.
II NJ CosrI5S NJ. d., Demonstration Of Anatomy
The College buildings are situated on the
corner OF Broad and Vine streets, convenient
to the Poet Office aud the business part OF the
city, but in a sufficiently quiet neighborhood.
In the principal building are the Lecture
Rooms, the Laboratory, the Museum. and the
Cabinet Of Matera Medica. There are two
Lecture Room. one below stairs and one
above That below will seat foar or five
hundred students, and is admirably arranged
in all its detail. The Que above in which
are given the Lectures on Anatomy and Sur
gerry, is smaller ,stbough quite large enough
FIR all practical purposes, and is also arrang, d
in the mo t convenient manner. Both are sup
piled with warming apparatus, and are per-
f,.ctly comfortable in the coolest weather.
by no means a trifing consideration, for
knowledge is none the better for being taken
in with cold air s-r
The Laboratory contains everything nee
esSary TO full and complete operations and ex-
pcrmcnts of all kinds, in chemistry pharmacy
&c. The Museum is full and costly one.
sp cmens, both natural and artificial, for
illustrating all the mysteries OF anatomy.
physiology, etc. Among the rest are two
very large anatomical specimens. exhibiting
the internal economy of the human system,
with all the component parts Of its structure.
from the heart and lungs down TO the
minutest Gbre, SO distinctly delineated that
they are discernible to the student from al
most any part of the lecture room. These
are ingenious aud wonderful works of art,
and are, with n single exception. the only
specimens of their peculiar kind in the
United States. Many of the illustrations. or
specimens. 1--WE are not up in the TECHNICAL
ties of the faculty, and do not know
exactly what to call them } are the
results OF that wonderful skill which
seems 10 belong to, or to be cultivated
by, the artists of Paris almost exclusively.
They exhibit the different stages of all the
more serious diseases of the human system
which it is necessary thus to illustrate.
The Cabinet Of Materia Medica is complete
in all its appointments, and is tastefully and
elegantly arranged.
Shelby Medical College possesses one ad-
vantage in particular, which is possessed by
but few other institutions of the kind-its
private Hospital. The Importance of this de-
partment of the College to the student, is al
most inestimahle, but is apparent TO all.
Nashville is justly proud of her Medical
Schools, OF which she has two. They are
both OF the highest order-are both equal to
the best-and are both in the full tide OF
Ir,sperity. Long may they continue to
y: ospcr.