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iuonsti'ate to several hundred students at once, the 

 structure of all the minute organs. He had recourse, 

 tlierefore, to models, which gave an exact representa- 

 tion of the small parts of the human structure on a 

 magnified scale. This was not an original idea of 

 Wistar; but he extended this mode of instruction so 

 far beyond any thing which had been before practis- 

 ed, and its effects, under his lessons, were so lumi- 

 nous and happy, that we can scarce withhold from 

 him tlie merit of invention. There was another pe- 

 culiarity in his course of lectures, which should not 

 pass unnoticed. The general class was divided into 

 a number of sub-classes, each of whicli he supplied, 

 at his own expense, with materials for acquiring a 

 thorough acquaintance with the human skeleton; a 

 subject, which is allowed by all to be the foundation 

 of anatomical knowledge. Witli all these advanta 

 ges, a student, who diligently attended his lectures, 

 could scarce fail to become an anatomist. 



He published a few years ago, a System of Ana- 

 tomy adapted to the use of students, the character of 

 which, 1 shall give, in words better than my own, 

 obligingly communicated by a professor of our medi 

 cal faculty.^ "It is a model for an elementary work. 



'■ Doctor Dorscy, Professor of Materia Mcdica. 



