services in that office.' Mr. Smith was at once
chosen to fulfill the laborious, and to us almost incredible duties of
this professorship, while the compensation alluded to was for a long
time held in abeyance. We also find that in this year the Board
adopted the following code of Medical Statutes:

"1. Lectures shall begin the first of October, annually, and continue
ten weeks, during which the professor shall deliver three lectures
daily, Saturday and Sunday excepted.

"2. In the lectures on the Theory and Practice of Physic, shall be
explained the nature of diseases and method of cure.

"3. The lectures on Chemistry and Materia Medica shall be accompanied
by actual experiments, tending to explain and demonstrate the
principles of Chemistry, and an exhibition shall be made of the
principal medicines used in curing disease, with an explanation of
their medicinal qualities, and effect on the human body.

"4. In the lectures on Anatomy and Surgery, shall be demonstrated the
parts of the human body by dissecting a recent subject, _if such
subject can be legally obtained_; otherwise, by exhibiting anatomical
preparations, which shall be attended by the performance of the
principal capital operations in surgery. [The lower animals were used
to some extent.]

"5. The medical professor shall be entitled to the use of the college
library and apparatus gratis.

"6. The medical students shall be entitled to the use of the college
library under the discretionary restrictions of the president.

"7. Medical students shall be subject to the same rules of morality
and decorum as Bachelors in Art residing at the college.

"8. No graduate of any college shall be admitted to an examination for
the degree of Bachelor of Medicine, unless he shall have studied two
full years with some respectable physician, or surgeon, and attended
two full courses of lectures at some university.

"9. No person _not_ a graduate shall be admitted to such an
examination unless he shall have studied _three_ full years, as above,
attended two full courses of lectures, and shall, upon a preparatory
examination before the president and professors, be able to parse the
English and Latin languages, to construe Virgil and Cicero's orations,
and possess a good knowledge of common Arithmetic, Geometry,
Geography, and Natural and Moral Philosophy.

"10. Examinations shall be holden in public before the executive
authority of the college by the medical pro