The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-01-23
PUBLISHED AND EDITED by
HENRY VI. WHITNEY.

cal topics from Botany 10 Phlebotorny discussed
in turn. Il l. tire learned aul courteous Hamilton
Dorcmus the popular, te bland Flint senior, the
foreign-lo,liny Flint junior,-tLe snlve Barker or
the dre-zy Elliott, eoarsc-,raineI Slyre genial
james X. Wood, or some other one of the numerous
faculty Of the coegc-each inparts, in turn, such
lore he may po-ses-. But you viii Be Surprised
learn that there f. here classification Of studies
in the European lnsIcll college aud as in own
literary institutions Zach student j. lef % his
wise foolish Judgment 20 pick out from this
ganizei u lectures such portions as he may
think best hear. For this, like the rest u
New York me,iie,l colleges = g speculation Of private
individuals \ dozen physicians get together and
start college Zach professor prints oil lot Of
tickets, admitting To his Of lectures, and
sells them h. all corners twenty dollars apiece.
The professors Of the Theory and Practice Of
MeIcine.'' Tor instance, do wish to wait three
years for markets and the result i that rst-years'
students are constantly directing their ignorant
gies to Theory and Practice when they should be
getting up their anatomy and physiology. No more
confused ani vasteful system Of instruction could he
devised
How dull the lectures are 10 our professionals
Let "a mount another flight Of stairs and in
wade the domains 81 the college. strange OlOr
Of mingled chemies and decay strikes upon our nos
triIs. We pu-h open the door that leads intO the
DisSecting-Foon, AMI discover SawbCnes ia all his
glory. Wooden table,, lucl with zinc ranged
In double down the length Of spacious rom;
aud the light Fails from above upon tire glItstly
w1erks Of human b.ses that lie upon these tables
cprpsss diseub0vei, displaying ragged muscles aud
deepy-slshel ueuItcs, with bones prutubgTant when
the dissection j. the most complete, and g.arin, eyes
- infxci vacIucy.'' y few Of the csTT-gs have
rounded Outlines aud fair proportions; but Of
them. eInaeate ~ first, are already reduced o. tat
ters ly the di--ectul-Sufic an! present the rIgii
and -hruuleu appearance tit results from long
pssure o. the aF. Zach holy j. assigned o. iiyc dis
sectors, who surround the table cumlluy n
body--uateiug ants crowd the mortal remnants II
Ay The s' D.zssesi0r'- Manual" printed ulou "a
rc,l-tiutel paper that shows bnod--ttiu- lees
spicuou-ly tEuu whittier page, lts open before ticfI
tsuiIe, hy this Ec students eu through their dexter
Gus Iators with the Keen sctlpel, separating tIc
c0sey-kuittct rI1scirs, disclosing thc delicate ami
shining truck Of nerve, following thC path, 81 the
complicated artcrial branches These readily
recognizable Iy tie -ilJe-l solution which hI- been
injected into them iu order check the decay IL tine
tissues. The 80 sal tHus treated with anti
septic. vii remain iUr % month two upon thc
di-scsting-tlbIe, IN vinter-tme, before yiei,ug to
decomposition. lu spt, ct thts treatment, however,
they stu dtu-c % earthly OOr of decay peI-
cTstut tllt 10 eu+ o. the discctur IN spite % all
his abIutou- Though ne wash himself with uitrc,
and be never clean, the etuIuatuus 0f the d-cct-
ing-roouu pass through the lungs into the system 0f
the di-sector, and rc-1Vpcrr ia his breath.
This often produces, might ie expected, a serious
elect upou the health II thc a--iju0u- student
iut tle di--ert1r is -OuC;itlc- more danger
ou-ly poisoned tau through his breath The slight
accideutal scratch may uocuilie IBIS system
with the virus of the IItrd TISSUES, aud result ia the
most serious illness The Lss Of limb or Of life
itself sometimes results from dis-ectiug wound.
Whence al these subj jrcts obtained for the Pur
poses Of dissection
Nc; from toubs anil grayeyaris BOly-suntcling
Is longer the fearful JOY ot the medical student.
Human life. like other commodities has it, refuse.
In n great hospital like Bellevue scores Of patients
die yearly who have neither fricni nor relative u
claim them. After a uItic delay their bottles
are removed FROM thc hospital for the II dct
the various colleges Here, indeed, they have
q higher value than they attained ia life ~
living men aHI women these poor :. subjects were
almost utterly u-eess; ignorant, vicious diseased,
and not sufficient estimation for burial after death,
ticy were tie clupi-te~t failures Imaginable Bat
now tine Corupeu-atins value appears ~ their dead
bodies. Iu tine worli they useless, but m death
they instructive and a'iWOuitpry; they now be-
come valuable teachers, and contribute important
sltre 90 the eiucatiou II the physician ami o. the
progress Of science The Ioyr - hummer has found,
let Us hope some Justification of his lite; Tor lac thus
turns out 90 bc q JeucfictOr at lIst
After Dissection the rags AMI tatcTs Of the corp-cs
are gathered together and carried for iuerucu, with
the uncitimei bodies from the Dead House AMI the
NlOr,ue. te '' Pottcrs FIELD public buryins-
ground Jf ti5c cItY.
- We leave the room We observe some anatomical
enthusiasts who boiling the human head they
might boil yam r. is Co separate tc bones II the
skull; for these gentlemen have medical houOrs IN
view, aud viii win mclai- that cummcrugrIte
their sSii iu making anatomical Preparations. They
dJ>cOursiug with uuctiou upon tIc uIeri"riy
Of - lean -Ji-,' wastel bodies, for the purposes
81 dissection, displaying the anatomy Il the mus
cles readily than fItter subjects Bat enough
Of thc cuiavcruus Tor the present.
Dr. q. +. Wnslow's book upon geology Is
Published by Macmillan ~ Co Of LONDON, (LpPiI.-
cutt II Philadelphia has the right Of American pub
cstion.) The Doctors second visit 20 tie i-lnis,
and his lifelong enthusiasm for science, viii lc fresh
IN the recollection II many ilawaiilns. This work
l. octave Il about $50 pages, and embodied the
result OF Dr. Wiu-Ows Investigations in nearly every
part of the world l read the manuscript Of the
work IN Heidelberg, year ago, and Was much in
pressed with the originality Of the views u contained.
\ professor Il Cambridge University, England. has
since that time said that Dr. Wnslow has reached,
ia his discussions, the points that the Cambridge
Mathematician have long bccu enelyCrruc o. dernOt-
stratr but hitherto without success. The Doctors
last alIrvss No. lO, Hirsch Strasse, Baden
Baden.
Mr. Collins Arnold. who made the first cotton
planting experiment in the district 81 Puma, few
years ago. ha, returned o. his home IN Stui lake,
near Troy. New York, and Is there 10 Tire head Il
tine ss sand Lake Warp Mil CO. The company has
recently made Ir-r additions t0 IT, wItcr-Vgwer
aud machinery, and j. doing very extensive manu-
featuring business But MIR Arnold coute-si 90 me.
during q rcscut l-it Slnl Lake, that lie stl has
a huugcriur TOR tIg Islands. Ne place seems At
trIeivc him and o. many other returned i-isuicr-.
NIrs. Pierce, late o. II1, has become Br0Jkiyuite
for the winter, and = living in Clinton street. the
pretticst rtrf II the city of churches
MIS-. Youu1u-. Pate Mrs. Judge Lee, j. spending
the winter IN LJu.iIu-
Admiral Flrragut returned early this week, In his
flagship the FraHkii4, from bis eighteen months
cruise in EurUreiu waters, AMI established himself
in the comfortable home iu lhirty-~iXth street that
was presented o. him about w. years u-o- Thieves
eu'sre the house during his atseusc, ami carried ol
what they cgulI Neither age nor service seem ty
have Iumel the fire gi the AiuiIs,l- eye or rulrrc
the elasticity Of his tread. lie still dance until
= O'Clock iu the morning, and make New Years calls
s bithcIy ~ be diI on that stormy anniversary
years ago. have never seen him looking better.
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