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COURSE OF INSTRUCTION AT THE 
Daily experience proves that anatomy and surgery are inse¬ 
parable. There never existed a good surgeon who was not a 
complete anatomist. The surgical anatomy will, therefore, first 
be strictly and minutely demonstrative. A skilful operator must 
be perfectly acquainted with the situation and extent, and con¬ 
nexions of the part which is to be subject to his knife. The 
demonstrations, therefore, will include the situation and relation 
of every region that may be the seat of operation, and will proceed, 
layer after layer, from the surface to the interior. The minute 
surgical anatomy being completed, the professor w ill recal the 
attention of the pupils to those parts, and to those relations of 
parts, most deserving of consideration in the iisual or more im¬ 
portant operations. 
Thus, basing the demonstrations and the surgical treatment 
on the minute anatomical structure and relations of the parts, the 
student will be conducted to that point, that he will be able to con¬ 
duct every operation without hesitation or fear, because he will 
have a perfect knowledge of every thing that concerns the parts 
on which his knife is employed. 
Next will follow the prolegomena, or previous consideration 
respecting all operations, including all that relates to opera¬ 
tions in general—what is necessary before an operation, during, 
and after it. 
The first will include medicine, as connected with operations; 
surgical instruments ; simple and complicated operations. 
The second will regard the proper season for certain opera¬ 
tions ; the constitutional or local preparation of the subjects to be 
operated upon ; the consideration of the mode of conducting the 
operation; the auxiliaries required,&c. 
The third will include all that is necessary to render the ope¬ 
ration safe, rapid, and effectual; the method of fixing the animal; 
the position of the operator, and the assistance which he will 
require. 
The fourth embraces the means of stopping haemorrhage ; the 
art of dressing; the method of bandaging; the usual or occasional 
consequences of certain operations; the constitutional treatment 
of the animal operated on ; the air, the food, the exercise, the 
medicine, the precautions, the care; in a word, all those mani- 
