me Pfiiiadeiptiia Lying-in Gfiariig. 
S. W. cor. nth and Cherry Streets. 
The 151st semi-annual course of lectures on PRACTICAL 
OBSTETRICS will commence on Friday, October 5th, 1888. 
Three introductory lectures will be given, viz., Friday, October 
5th, at 7 p. m., Monday, October 8th, at 7 p. m., and Wednesday, 
October 10th, at 7 p. m. 
The subsequent lectures will be given at such hours as not to 
interfere with the regular work of the various medical schools. 
Cases will be assigned students for attendance in the elegantly 
appointed and new hospital attached to the school. Cases in the 
out-door practice of the institution will also be assigned students of 
the class, for attendance at the patients’ own homes, in regular 
rotation. 
The lectures and demonstrations will continue until the Christ- 
mas holidays. Students taking the Course will be privileged to see 
the work of the hospital and out-door service until March 1st, 1889, 
should they so desire. About thirty out-door cases apply each 
month for obstetric aid, and about fifteen women are delivered in 
the hospital during each month. 
The course of instruction will consist of forty lectures and 
twenty demonstrations on Practical Obstetrics, and will be similar 
to those delivered during the past five years. The lectures will 
embrace the consideration of the diagnosis, pathology, and hygiene 
of pregnancy; the management of labor and the various forms of 
dystocia; the care of mother and child during the puerperium ; the 
consideration of the accidents and emergencies of labor, and the 
pathology and treatment of the diseases of the puerperal state; 
the management and care of new-born children—special attention 
being given to the artificial feeding of children. Antiseptic mid- 
wifery, as so successfully employed in this institution, together with 
as many obstetric operations as are justified, will be explained and 
shown to the student upon the living subject at the bedside. 
Students will make regular ward visits with Dr. Wilson. The demonstrations will embrace the study of the normal pelvis and the 
consideration of the more common abnormalities; the application 
of the forceps and the axis traction forceps; version ; the mutilating 
operations upon the child, and the cutting operations upon the 
mother. The technique of all these operations will be explained 
and demonstrated by Dr. Wilson, with the assistance of Drs. C. P. 
Noble and H. B. Martin, to each member of the class. Every 
member of the class will be personally taught how to apply the 
forceps and perform version upon (the living woman when practi- 
cable) the Budin-Pinard manakin. 
This School of Practical Obstetrics has already had over 
14,000 cases of confinement under its care, and 2,300 physicians 
have attended its courses during the 58 years of its existence. 
PRACTICAL GYNAECOLOGY. 
A limited number of students will be admitted to the daily 
clinic for the diseases of women held at noon each day. They will 
treat the cases and perform the simpler operations, including plastic 
work under the direction of Dr. Wilson. A limited number of 
gentlemen or ladies will be taken as office students. These will 
have the privilege of assisting Dr. Ellwood Wilson and Dr. Chas. 
Meigs Wilson in their private work. 
Fee for Obstetric Course, - $15.00 
“ Certificate of the Managers of 
the Institution, (issued to Graduates only) $5.00 
Fee for six weeks’ instruction in 
Gynaecology, - $20.00 
Fee for Office Students, including 
above courses, - $100.00 
On and after Wednesday, September 19th, 1888, a public 
clinic will be held every Wednesday and Saturday morning at 10 
o’clock, alternately obstetrical and gynaecological. Those attending 
20 clinics will receive the certificate of the institution for that pur- 
pose without charge. 
For further information, apply to Dr. Charles Meigs Wilson, 
by letter or in person, at the Charity, S. W. cor. 1 ith and Cherry 
Sts., Phila., daily at 12 o’clock noon, or at his office, N. E. corner 
17th and Sansom Sts., before 10 a. m., or between 7 and 8 p. m.