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be sufficiently acquainted with the subject to justly decide 
upon it. But it does not of necessity follow that the professors 
alone are the arbitrators ; three recognised members of the 
profession are sometimes chosen for this purpose ; and in 
case of their not agreeing, a fourth is selected, whose 
decision is final. The expenses are defrayed jointly by the 
parties concerned. 
The number of pupils the school is capable of accommo- 
dating is 300. At the time vre were there 260 were present. 
They are all residents, and not permitted to go beyond 
the boundaries of the institution, without especial leave; 
except on Sunday afternoons, after attendance on the service 
in the chapel within the walls. They dress all alike ; their 
costume being neat. There are several lecture-rooms, large, 
and well arranged : also an operating theatre, lighted by a 
dome in its roof, with seats rising above each other at the 
back and sides, so that the students can satisfactorily see 
the performance of every operation ; the animal being cast 
in the centre of the building for that purpose. On either 
side are apartments for keeping the casting-hobbles, side- 
lines, blinds, instruments, &c. 
The dissecting rooms are spacious, and all that can be 
desired ; being well ventilated, and having w r ater laid 
on in abundance, with raised seats at the ends. They are 
divided into one for the students of the first year, and 
another for the second year’s students. Around the walls 
of the first are suspended separated bones of man, the horse, 
ox, sheep, dog, & c. ; and here and there skeletons are 
placed for the general use of the pupils. Pulleys also are 
arranged in frames for the suspension of subjects for dissec- 
tion. The tables are covered with zinc, and can be moved 
about on wheels, each having at one end a simple contrivance 
for raising the subject on them. Osteology and myology 
constitute the anatomical studies of the first year’s class. 
Splanchnology, with the blood-vessels and the nerves, are the 
divisions for pupils of the second year, whose dissecting 
room is correspondingly arranged to the one already de- 
scribed ; only that the preparations placed in it vary 
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