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  • Webster, James, 1803-1854.
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[1830]
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    IMMKDIATELY IN THE REAR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. Dr. Webster's courses of lectures on Anatomy and Surgery, will commence in the following order:— AUTUMNAL COURSE. This course will commence on ^the fifteenth of September, and be continued until the twenty-fifth of October. The demonstrations given during this course, will consist of the anatomy of the eye. brain, heart, arteries, &c; together with occasional demonstrations of parts concerned in important surgical operations, such as those for hernia, aneurism, lithotomy. &c.— Tickets for the course, eight dollars. WINTER COURSE. The course of Demonstrations on Surgical Anatomy, and Operative Surgery, com- mences the second week in November, and continues until the first of March ensuing. The lectures will be delivered on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays, at a quarter before five o'clock, P. M. The plan adopted is, first to demonstrate the Surgical Ana- tomy of the parts, then to perform the several operations on the subject; after which, the instruments are handed in succession to each of the class, who repeats it before the whole; by this means, each student, at the termination of the course whilst he has be- come acquainted with the Surgical Anatomy concerned, will also have performed most of the operations in surgery. The Analytic Method of teaching anatomy, so successfully pursued by Dr. John D. Godmar, is adopted. SPRING COURSE. The Spring Course of lectures will commence on the first Monday in March, and continue until the first of April. The lecturer will be delivered every day at three o'clock. This course is particularly intended for gentlemen who are preparing for graduation, as well as for those who are desirous of reviving their knowledge of some of the most interesting parts of Anatomy. Examinations on Anatomy and Surgery, will be given every evening duiing the first two weeks of the course. Tickets for the course, ten dollars. The Anatomical Rooms are fitted up with an especial attention to the comfort and convenience of the class, and the facilitation of their improvement. The instruments for the study of operative surgery; all those used in making anatomical preparations, and the privilege of dissecting, during each term, are allowed to the student free of additional charge. Dr. Webster deems it proper to stale, that neither do his lectures nor dissecting es- tablishment interfere with the regulations, time, or duties of the University; Medical Students, in all Medical Institutions, are at liberty to pursue their dissecting studies under a private or public teaeher, as they may please; it is thought advisable to men- tion these facts, the contrary having been stated. fjCj- Dr. W. would receive into his office a few young gentlemen, either for the term of their medical education, or for a shorter period; his pupils have the advantage of the Philadelphia Anatomical Rooms, without additional charge. Dr. W.'s library is extensive, embracing many of the most valuable ancient and modern medical works; his anatomical cabinet is not inferior to private cabinets generally. No 6, North Ninth street, near the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, June, 1829. AMESBURV ON FRACTURES. The following summary points out some of the advantages attending the use of A's apparatus. , ... 1st. It fixes the whole limb so as to admit of no motion whose centre is not in the •hip joint. 2d It maintains the fractured ends in a natural position, and in perfect co- aptation. 3d. It lies upon the limb with ease to the patient. 4th. It enables the Surgeon to place the limb in any position the case may indicate. 5th, It allows ot the application of extension, and counter-extension, when the limb is placed in the bent position 6th It is entirely passive to the motions of the limb. 7lh. It admits ot being adapted to limbs of different lengths and different sizes. 8th. It is applicable to frac- tuies in any part of the limb, and of all kinds, whether simple, comminuted, or com- pound 9th. In all fractures of the thigh, it allows the patient to be placed upon a ioft feather bed; and in most cases it enables him to place the limb upon the heel, or •upon the side, and to alter it from one to the other, at pleasure. 10th. When used for simple fractures of the leg, it enables the patient to leave his bed as soon as the inflammation produced by the injury is sufficiently go! under, and this too, without any dancer of displacing the fractured ends. 11th. With all these advantages, it in- sures to the patient a speedy recovery, and a straight and perfect limb.1'—lltjlicliimt on the Treatment of Fractures, by J. J1MEHBTJRY, M. R. C S See. A number of certificates, from some of the most distinguished surgeons in England, amongst them Sir Astley Cooper, approving of Amesbury's apparatus, might be given; but it is only deemed advisable to give the result ol a tew cases in our own country. For more information, see the American Medical Recorder, vol. vi. pages 65 and 773. vol. vii. pages 1 and 523— July number, 1S28, page 207; the the North American Medical and Surgical Journal, for January 1830, page 74.