New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-03-21

ANO H DLO lOs
its graduates must always experience the benefit Of
being accredited from 30 eminent an alma mater.
The following gentlemen compose the Faculty
Thomas Hunt, N. D., Professor of Physiology and
Pathology, and Dean Of the College.
James Jones, N. D., Professor Of the Theory and
Practice OF Medicine.
warren Stone, ~ D., Professor Of Surgery.
j. l.. Rlddell, N. D., Professor of Chemistry.
A. d. Cenas, N. D., Professor Of Obstetrics, and
Of the Diseases Of Women and Children.
Gustavus A. Mott, n. D., Professor Of Materia
Medica and Therapeutics.
7. G. Richardson, NJ D., Professor Of ANATOMY.
8. E. Chaille, NJ. D., and W. G. Nichols. M. n.
Demonstrators Of Anatomy.
Under the courteous guidance Of the two last
named gentlemen we lately made tour OF the col.
lege building, and largely indebted to their DO
liteness and professional knowledge for the enter
tanning and instructive character of our visit. Be.
ginning at the ground floor with q room apart from
the main building, where the bodies Of anatomical
subjects undergo the injecting process and various
pathological preparation for the dissectne room busi
ness which belongs to the department Of our two
cieerones, we terminated survey OF the premises
with the dissectng rooms Of the upper story After
looking in at the basement depot for dead men
where they are attached to the tackle arrangement
that hoists them to the rooms above, we passed to
the first floor and into the commodious lecture room
adapted for the accommodation of five hundred stu
dents, where Prof Mott lectures four days and Prof.
Jones six days of every week during the session. on
Materia Medica and Therapeutics, and the Theory
and Practice Of Medicine, respectively.
In the "amphtheater +" lecture room, Prof. Cenas
four days Of the week on Obstetrics and the
Diseases OF Women and Children, Prof. Hunt five
days OF the week on Physiology and Pathology, Prof
Stone six days of the week on Surgery, and Prof
Richardson six days of the week on Anatomy.
Dr. Riddell presides in the several apartments occu
pied by the extensive chemical laboratory ecturipe
four times week during the session. The laboratory
IS stocked with most complete array of chemical
and philosophical apparatus of the most improved
styles, much of it being Of very costly description
The library is large and we'll selected, comprising
all works necessary to the completeness OF medical
library. The museum occupies nearly whole floor
OF the building, containing vast number of models
casts specimens plates, etc. the preparations being
chiefly the work of scientific artists in England
France and Italy. 1t comprises collection of mus
cular preparations from the Academy of ANATOMY il
Florence, representing than three hundred ant
fifty separate dissections Thiberts tableaux of th
microscopic Anatomy Of the Tissues Auzou's cabi
net OF human and comparative anatomy; a cabine
OF human bones, and collection in comparative os
teoogy; preparations in wax, representing the anat
omy of the viscera of the nervous and vascular sys
tenn, and of every organ in the human body model
representing diseases of the eye and of the skin
specimens of urinary and hillary calculi, from Du
puytren's museum, Paris, from London, and pre-
pared at the college; fossil remains skeletons ant
parts OF skeletons of beasts, Egyptian mummes etc
1t is peculiar and most instructive and interesting
entertainment to stroll through this museum of the
parts and fragments of parts of physical humanity
some OF them representing healthy nature, and Others
the progress ravages and distortions of disease apd
| other causes.
| We concluded our passing through collegen by
visit to the dissecting rooms-the bitter end of a,
otherwise agreeable perambulation, for we were
visitor to that haunt of horrors whose professions
duty it was not to look upon the surroundings witt
the eyes of science, but only with the vision @
humanity. There was nothing awful to be seen il
| the light, airy rooms but few skeletons, parts q
Skeletons preserved limbs, and long row of table
like those in butchers shambles, ranged on th
| sides of the rooms, the floors of which are waite
tight and slope to gutter in the middle, which cal
ries Oft the fluids. We regarded these tables witt
interest when informed that there lay upon them a
one time during the past session. the bodies of thir
dead men, which one hundred live men, students O
the college, were busly engaged in dissecting-cut
ting up in the cause OF science rare picture that
hundred men at work with flashing knives AM
Instruments in the flare of gasight upon thirty stark
staring, stiff, white corpses No college in th
country affords such advantages for the study o
surgery, etc., as this. Proper subjects can always b.
| obtained.