tion of the Students and on this subject the Professor observes, "Dissections commenced in the early part of November and were continued without interruption until the first week in March. The zeal with which this branch of their studies has been pursued by the Students generally is most praiseworthy and the practical acquaintance with the subject acquired by many of them was satisfactorily shewn at the Annual Examination. The senior Students confined their attention chiefly to the study of the various surgical regions connecting the Anatomy of these parts with the diseases and injuries to which they are liable and with the performance of surgical operations most frequently required. The facilities for the study of Practical Anatomy have been ample. The preparations for the illustration of my Lectures have been diligently and carefully prepared by Sadashew Hemraj and Shamrao Narayan, who have both shewn themselves zealous Practical Anatomists."

CHEMISTRY.

Ten Students and 12 Student Apprentices attended the Chemical class. The course consisted of 72 Lectures, delivered in accordance with the Syllabus which forms Appendix (C.) of the Report of the College for the year 1847-48, except in so far as the advancing state of Chemical Science made it necessary to depart from that arrangement.

10. The course of Practical Chemistry was conducted in the same manner as in the two preceding Sessions.

11. Dr. Giraud reports favorably of the progress made by Palonjee Pestonjee, Rustomjee Byramjee, Bala Gopal and Ruttonjee Hormusjee, and commends Rustomjee Byramjee for the creditable manner in which he had performed the duties of Chemical Assistant.

INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE.

12. Nine Students attended this course which consisted of 72 Lectures, delivered in accordance with the Syllabus, Appendix (E.) of the Report for 1847-48.

13. The Physiological division of the course, is that part which chiefly forms the subject of the weekly examinations and monthly written exercises. Rustomjee Byramjee, Narayan Dajee, Sadashew Hemraj and Balcrushna Chintoba, have during the Session made very creditable progress.

MATERIA MEDICA.

14. Nine Students and 12 Student Apprentices attended the course of Lectures,on Materia Medica which amounted to 72,-and which were delivered in accordance with the detailed Syllabus which forms Appendix (C.) of the last Report.

15. The Junior Students have also been in rotation practically engaged in compounding and dispensing Medicines in the Hospital and have exhibited praiseworthy zeal and industry.

PRACTICE OF MEDICINE.

16. Seventeen Students have attended this course which consisted of 72 Lectures delivered in accordance with the Syllabus which forms Appendix (D.) of this Report. The proficiency exhibited by the 4th year Students at the Annual Examination was in every respect satisfactory. Sebastian Carvalho, Anunta Chundroba, Atmaram Pandurung, J. C. Lisboa, Paul Francis Gomes, Merwanjee Sorabjee and Muncherjee Sorabjee acquitted themselves with much credit.

CLINICAL MEDICINE.

17. The same Students who attended the course of the Practice of Medicine have daily followed that of Clinical Medicine.

18. In the last Report of the College the arrangements of the Clinical Ward and the manner in which the patients were selected from the general wards of the Hospital were fully explained. A similar system, in these respects, has been observed during this Session.

19. The greater proficiency of the students has admitted of considerable modification of the manner in which the duties of the ward have been conducted. Instead of the daily reports, being dictated by the Professor, they have been previously prepared by the Clinical Clerk and have been read by him at the bedside of the patient. The statements made in them have been then scrutinized by one or two of the attendant Students, at the request of the Professor, with the view of testing the accuracy of the reports and of correcting defects which may be apparent in the Students' manner of examining the sick.

The Clerk has then been required to suggest the treatment, to propose a prescription, and the other students have been encouraged to state objections and propose amendments should any occur to them.

20. The advantages resulting from these modifications have been, that the time has not been taken up in dictation and writing, but wholly occupied in observing and reasoning on the phenomena of disease. By means of conversation, explanation, interrogation, the attention of the Students has been kept more fixed and interested and their powers of observation and reflection more certainly exercised. These objects, most important to keep in view in the education of all youth, are more especially necessary in regard to those who have not had the advantage of that early mental discipline and training which is the privilege of the young of the educated classes of other countries. While the Students have been encouraged to express themselves freely in regard

to what they observe in the ward, it has been impressed upon them that they are only expected to do so after they have carefully observed and reflected. No countenance has been given to frivolous questions and remarks.

21. The thirteen Students who are in the 4th year of their Studies, and one of the 3rd year Students, Narayan Dajee have in rotation officiated as Clinical Clerks; and the following nine may be mentioned as those of them who have conducted the duties with the greatest efficiency, assiduity and attention to the wants of the sick. Mr. Carvalho, Atmaram Pandurung, Bhao Dajee, Merwanjee Sorabjee, Mr. Gomes, Mr. Lisboa, Muncherjee Sorabjee, Anunta Chundroba and Narayan Dajee.

22. Many of the Students have also assisted in conducting the duties of the Dispensary, for outpatients. The Seniors in prescribing for some of the sick, under the superintendence of Dr. Peet and Dr. Giraud. The Juniors in registering the names of the patients and in dispensing medicines.

23. In addition to the daily Clinical instruction in the Hospital, 33 Lectures have been delivered, in the College, on the cases treated in the ward. Sometimes indeed the consideration of the cases has assumed more the character of interrogation of the Students than of a formal lecture; and probably in future Sessions it will be found expedient to give still more of the time of these weekly meetings in the College to examination in the Practice of Medicine and to restrict Clinical instruction to its only true arena, the bed-side of the sick. It has already been explained in a former report that as few of the patients understand English, those difficulties which stand in the way of conducting Clinical instruction in Medical Schools, when the Teacher and the sick speak the same language, are not

experienced here, and that it is incumbent on us to turn these advantages to the fullest account.

24. In Appendix (E) will be found a tabular statement of the diseases which have been under treatment in the Clinical Ward, from which some judgment may be formed of the opportunities which the Students have enjoyed of becoming practically acquainted with disease. This statement however by no means exhibits the full extent of these opportunities.--Asiatic Cholera and Small-pox have prevailed extensively dur ing the Session and the assiduous Students have not failed to direct their attention to the practical study of these formidable diseases.

25.

With the view of shewing the capabilities of the J. J. Hospital and Dispensary as a practical School of Medicine and Surgery, during the past Session, it has been deemed expedient to annex a return of the patients admitted and the results. It forms Appendix (F. and G.) of this report. It will be observed that the mortality shewn in the Hospital Return is very great. This depends on the state of destitution of many of the inmates and the advanced stages of disease at which many of the admissions take place, as has been frequently explained in the Official Reports of the Institution.

SURGERY.

26. Seventeen Students have attended the course of Surgery which consisted of 64 Lectures on Surgery and 33 Clinical Lectures and examinations.

27. Mr. Peet observes that the only change of importance between the arrangement of the lectures in this and the preceding Session was the introduction of Operative Surgery, as part of the regular course. Whereas, in the preceding Session, surgical operations