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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 lectures will commence oa 

 the second Monday in November, and will continue for 

 five months. The anatomical lecture-room is lighted frona 

 the top of the building, and the seats are elevated sufficiently 

 for the convenience of the s.udents. Arrangements for private 

 dissections are particularly attended to, and every facility 

 afforded for the acquirement of a minute knowledge of the 

 structure of the human 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 

 the acquisition of practical knowledge, without additional 

 expense. During the daily attendance of the physicians of 

 these institutions, such clinical remarks are made as are of 

 importance to the medical student. All operations in surge= 

 ry, occurring in these establishments, will be free to the clasSj 

 in addition to such cases in private practice as may be ope- 

 rated on in the public institutions. 



Some advantages of a peculiar character are connected 

 with this institution, which it maybe 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 in the community. Those 

 impediments which exist in so many other places to the pro- 

 secution of 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 morr 

 bid affections of the coloured population. 



THOMAS G. PRIOLEAU, 



Charleston, June 19, 1824. Dmn of the Faculty. 



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