, 1859-06-14

Uedical Department Of Lind Gnl-
verNaty.
We hare received the first annual announce
uvnt Of this new Medical School, from WHICH
sc learn tlnt the Faculty consists Of the follow
A.. gentlemen:
I,Avlp RITTER, II. D.. Emeritus Professor q:
obstetrics and Diseases Of Women.
]. II. HoLLls1En u. D., Professor Of Dcscrl
''vc -tuatomv.
IL. A. JOHNSON, n. D., Professor Of Phys
'!ogy and Histology.
n. Z. TAILOR. II. D., Professor Of General
anthology and Public Hygiene.
F. Malta. Ph. D., L-~tu1er On Inorganic
'llclnistry.
RA1rn n. IsuAx. n. D., Professor of Surgical
anatomy and Operations Of Surgery.
EDMUND ANDREWS, II. D., Professor Of the
Principles aud Practice OF Surgery and Of Gin
cal Surgery
VI. II. BrronD. II. D., Professor of Obstetrics
md Diseases Of Women md Children.
y. s. DAVIS, II. D., Professor OF Principles
md Practice Of Medicine and of Clinical Mcdi-
:iuc.
II. G. STAFFORD, Esq, Professor Of Medical
Jurisprudence.
HonAcE WARMER, II. D., Demonstration Of
anatomy.
The establishment in our midst of new Mcdi-
cal College is matter Of considerable import.
4nee, and We have carefully examined the docu.
,nent before us to see what reasons the Faculty
present for the Inauguration of this movement
lat ~
from seven to eleven, thereby creating greater
liyislon Of labor than usually exists in simila,
Institutions,
I'd. The Glass Of each session is to be divided
INTO two departments. The Junior, embracing
those attending their first course Of lectures
xill be devoted to The study Of Descriptive An.
4tomy. Physiology and Histology, Materia Med
Ca, and General Therapeutics, General Patio.
iogy mud Public Hygiene, Inorganic Chemistr,
and Practical Anatomy under the Demonstrator
The Senior department, embracing those ut
tending their second eourse, will be devoted to
the study Of Surgical Anatomy, Practice Of Sur
.esy, Obstetrics and Diseases Of Women aud
Children, Practice Of Medicine, Organic Chem
i,try and To1icology, and Medical Jurispru.
icnce, together With Clinical Medicine and Su,
gerry, and Practical Anatomy. This plun of III,
>truction is, VIC learn, Il norelty in medical
teaching, ut Ienst in this country.
sd. The number Of lectures daily, instead al
xix, Of an honr each, as in most Medical Col
'egcs, will be four.
Ath. The term, instead Of being four Aonths
tho usual time in other similar institutions, i,
Extended to FIVE. The result of this will be
that instead Of SIC lectures in sixteen weeks or
Ill the different branches Of medicine, this pfat
:ontemp'utes $50 lectures in forty weeks in
stead Of lectures on al! the different department.
II medicine being carried on simultaneously
ind repeated At the end Of year or more, thi,
afaa contemplatcs lectures on one-ha!f, and
those the primary branches, for the first part a
the period Of study, aud after n year or more
another course upon the practical branches,
| These, we believe, are the principal points o,
which the plan Of instruction proposed by IL,
Medical Department Of Lind University differ.
from hatpursued By other Mcdica! institutions
The Faculty Claim for it peculiar advantages
Of these, however, it is for the profession, anc
not for us, to Judge.
For many years the Rush Medical College ha.
occupied the field in this part Of the Northwest
and has accomplished much for the education
If the profession, and. We spprehend, will prove
formidable rival for the new organization
We trust, hoverer. that between the elder a,.e
sonpger sisters there will be no strife excertine
that Of who can best teach. who make the bcs,
l,ctors. In this, and this alone, the people vii
1 "a M fud