ANNUAL ANNOUNCEMENT, ANNOUNCEMENT MISSOURI MEDICAL COLLEGE.

1868-69.

The Faculty of the Missouri Medical College, in again issuing their Annual Catalogue and Announcement, are happy in being able to present to their Alumni and the Profession generally evidence of their present prosperous condition and future prospects. Having been reorganized after a temporary suspension during the war, with a complete corps of professors, the success which has thus far attended their efforts has been both gratifying and encouraging, and is such as to justify their most sanguine.

expectations as to the future of the College. The Faculty have provided themselves with all the modern appliances for illustrating their respective courses, and they are determined that no effort on their part shall be wanting to give to the students in attendance on their lectures a full and complete course of instruction in all the branches of medical science usually taught in similar institutions in this country, that they may be thoroughly grounded in the elements of their profession, and equal to all the demands of the present advanced state of medical science.

Situated, as St. Louis is, .in the center of the great Valley of the Mississippi, and being equally accessible by river and rail to all parts of the South and West, there is no reason why it should not speedily become the medical, as it already is the commercial, metropolis of this vast and fertile region. It is the object of the Faculty to bend all their energies to the attainment of this desirable end, and in doing this they confidently appeal to Southern and W _tern students to sustain them in their efforts by giving a cordial and united support to their own domestic institutions not merely because they are" home institutions," but upon the broad ground of equal merit, believing, as they do, that there no longer exists a necessity for their going abroad in order to acquire a sound, thorough, practical medical education.

The ensuing course of Lectures will commence on Monday, the twelfth day of October next, and continue for five months. Preliminary lectures will be delivered from October 1st to the commencement of the regular session, to which all students are invited. The Faculty earnestly desire to have a full attendance of the class at the commencement of the regular term in October, and students will do well to make their arrangements accordingly.

The Dissecting Rooms will be open and attended by the Demonstrator of Anatomy from the commencement of the term; and as anatomical material is both cheap and abundant in St. Louis, every facility will be afforded the students to acquire a thorough knowledge of practical Anatomy.

With a population of two hundred and twenty-five thousand, St. Louis affords large and well-regulated Hospitals, filled

with every variety of disease, to which students are admitted free of charge, and as deserved prominence is given to Clinical instruction, both in Medicine and Surgery, these institutions furnish an inviting field for the student to familiarize himself with the various phases Qf disease by observing and studying it fIt the bedside.