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respectable medical school, previously to his becoming a 
member of this institution, Students who have for two sea- 
sons taken the tickets of any or all of the professors, shall be 
thereafter entitled to admission into his or their lecture-room, 
without further expense. The fectures will commence on 
the second Monday in November, and will continue for 
five months. The anatomical lecture-room is lighted from 
the top of the building, and the seats are elevated sufficiently 
forthe convenience of the s.udenis. Arrangements for private 
dissections are particularly attended to, and every facility 
afforded for the acquirement of a minute knowledge of the 
structure of the buman frame, and the preparation and pre~ 
Servation of its different parts. The chemical laboratory is 
contained in the same building, and such apparatus procured 
as is necessary to a full experimental course. The library 
belonging to the Medical Society will be opened to the stu- 
dents upon the most liberal terms, and it is only doing justice 
to that body to acknowledge that their collection of medical 
works is among the largest and most select in the United 
States. The privilege of visiting the patients in the marine 
hospital and poor-house, affords the best opportunities for 
e acquisition of practical knowledge. without additional 
| a, ense. During the daily attendance of the Bis orp 
these institutions, such clinical remarks are made as are o 
importance to the medical student. All operations in cn 
ry, occurring in these establishments, will be free to the class, 
in addition to such cases in private practice as may be ope- 
rated on in the public institutions. — 
ome advantages of a pecaliar ‘character are connected 
wih this institution, which it may be proper to point out. 
No place in the United States offers as great opportunities 
for the acquisition of anatomical knowledge, subjects being 
obtained from among the coloured population in sufficient 
number for every purpose, and proper dissections carried on, 
without offending any individual inthe community. Those 
dim ich exist in so many other places to the pro- 
f this study, are not here thrown in the path of the 
student, public feeling being rather favourable than hostile to 
the advancement of the science of anatomy. In addition, the 
southern student can no where else receive correct instruc- 
tion on the diseases of his own climate, or the peculiar mors 
bid affections of the coloured ss 
OMAS G. PRIOLEAU, 
Charleston, June 19, 1824. Dean of the Faculty. 
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