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THE LANCET.

LONDON: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1851.

THE WAR AGAINST QUACKERY.-SCOTCH AND IRISH MEDICAL SCHOOLS.

IT is gratifying to observe that the Provincial Journal hasunited its strength to our own in the work of extirpatingthe quacks from the ranks of the medical profession.Other journals will, no doubt, follow : such, at least, aswould escape the imputation of being leagued with our oppo-nents. The medical world will do us the justice to believethat our task is a philanthropic and a holy one; that we haveno jealousies to gratify, and that we do not seek to satisfy anypersonal resentments. Our object is the pure and single oneof preserving our fellow-creatures from injury, and of purgingthe medical profession of a foul stain on its honour. No one

having truth for his aim can hesitate for a moment to join us. iThe holding back in -so righteous a cause must be reckonedconclusive evidence that the parties concerned have someobjects dearer -to them than truth; some corporate intereststo ’promote; some feelings of clique or party to gratify; andall such persons must be taken to be in their secret souls

opposed ,to the present movement. Let them take warningin time. They may rest assured that their professionalbrethren are more clear-sighted -than they imagine, and caneasily discern the hidden meaning of their silence.Amidst, however, the present universal and fervid feeling

of indignation, we perceive an attempt to lead the professionastray. It is sought to confine the irritation of men’s mindsto homoeopathy alone. It would truly be a sad waste of timeand thought to apply our powers so long and earnestly to

crush such contemptible nonsense. The agitation so happilybegun must not be so restricted. Every form of quackerymust be included in professional reprobation. Neither the

dignity nor the purity of the profession can be otherwisepreserved. Some forms of imposture may be more unreasonableand more pernicious to health than others; but all are equallyinsulting to the honour and equally opposed to the science ofmedicine. They only who cling to it as a tt ade would preservetheir own cherished form of dishonesty by directing an undueamount of censure ’’ against the sins they have no mind to."

If practitioners who were once respectable members of ourprofession, are determined to continue their support of knavishquackeries, we recommend them not again to write on suchsubjects; for they may rest assured that the pen is a dangerousimplement when employed on such subjects. They will not

easily persuade the public that it is lionourable to meet

roguish pretenders in friendly consultation, and then denouncethem. Honourable men would not, and could not, act thus.Such a dallying with knavery cannot be tolerated, and thedelinquents, whoever they may be, must quit the ranks ofour noble profession.

THE following resolutions have been framed by the Councilof the Medical Society of London, and are to be submitted toa special general meeting of the fellows on the 9th inst. Thatthey will be adopted unanimously, there can be no doubt, andthey will form another emphatic condemnation of the tricks

of the globulists, and those who meet them in pretended con.sultations:--

" 1. That the practice of homoeopathy, or the prescribingmedicines in what are called infinitesimal doses,’ under apretence that they are useful in the cure of disease, is foundedin palpable error, is a delusion on the part of the practitioner,a deception on the public, and manifestly dangerous to itswelfare."2. That the fellows of the Medical Society of London

cannot honourably hold any professional communion withhomceopathists.

" 3. That consequently, any fellow of this’Society who shallhereafter practise hom coopatb y, or who shall knowingly meet inconsultation any professed homeeopathist, will thereby renderhimself unworthy of the fellowship of this Society."The coming meeting will be looked for with interest; for it

is not merely in the adoption of formal resolutions, but in thespirit which we doubt not will be evinced, that the strength ofthe blow against quackery will consist. The resolutions them.selves are clear, concise, and to the point.We learn with infiuite satisfaction, that measures are being

taken to bring the subject of homoeopathy under the formalnotice of the Council of the Royal Medical and Chirurgicaland the Pathological Societies. This was necessary as long aseven one homoeopath remained a fellow of the Society. Wetrust every fellow of the Medico-Chirurgical Society will secondthe efforts now in progress. Both the Medical and the Medico-

Chirurgical Society should be cleared of quacks and theirabettors. It will be seen that the resolutions of the Medical

Society of London are as firmly directed against those whodeliberately meet the quacks in consultation as against theglobulists themselves.But these and other evidences of the state -of professional

feeling mark the impatience felt at the tardy inaction of thecouncil of the College of Surgeons. It is now some weeks

since Mr. SOUTH, the president, stated that the question ofthe mode to be pursued in the matter of those avowed globu-lists who are members or fellows of the College of Surgeons ofEngland, had been referred to the legal advisers of the Col-lege. The legal opinionis rather long in forthcoming. Mean-while the quacks individually, and their journals, declare thatthey are in the College secrets, and that Mr. SOUTH and theCouncil will discourage and humiliate the profession by refus-ing to consider globulism or -any other form of quackery adisqualification for remaining on the lists of the College. This

cannot be believed. We trust it will prove to be a foul asper-sion on the character of Mr. SOUTH and his colleagues ; butwhatever may be done should be done promptly, to stay theimpudent boastings of the charlatans.

Scotch and Irish Universities, Colleges, and MedicalSchools.

UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.

Principal-Julhn Lee, D.D. Secretary-Blair Wilson, Esq.FACULTY OF MEDICINE.

Dietetics, Materia Medica, and Pharmacy: Dr. Christison, tocommence Nov. 1, at nine.

Chemistry: Dr. Gregory, at ten.Surgery: Professor Miller, at ten.Institutes of Medicine: Dr. Bennett, at eleven.General Pathology: Dr. Henderson, at eleven.Clinical Surgery, Monday and Thursday: Professor Syme,Nov. 6, at twelve.

Clinical Medicine, Tuesday and Friday: Drs. Alison, Christi-son, and Bennett, at twelve.

Anatomy: Professor Goodsir, at one.

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Natural History: Professor Jameson, at two.Midwifery and Diseases of Women and Children: Dr. Simp-

son, at two.Practice of Physic: Dr. Alison, at three.Royal Infirmary, at noon, daily.Practical Anatomy, under the superintendence of Prof. Goodsir.Practical and Analytical Chemistry, under the superinten-

dence of Dr. Gregory.During the summer session, lectures will be given on-

Botany, by Dr. Balfour; Histology, by Dr. Bennett; MedicalJurisprudence, by Dr. Traill; Military Surgery, by Sir G.Ballingall; Clinical Lectures on Medicine; Clinical Lectureson Surgery, by Professor Syme; Comparative Anatomy andAnatomical Demonstrations, by Professor Goodsir; PracticalChemistry and Pharmacy; Practical Anatomy.MATRICULATION.-Every student, before entering with any

professor, must produce a matriculation ticket for the ensuingsession.

STATUTES RELATIVE TO THE DEGREE OF M.D.

The candidate must have been engaged in medical study forfour years, during at least six months of each, in the Univer-sity of Edinburgh, or in some other university where the de-gree of M.D. is given; unless, in addition to three anni mediciin an university, he has attended, during six winter months,the medical and surgical practice of a general hospital, withat least eighty patients, and during the same period, a courseof practical anatomy.He must give sufficient evidence-That he has studied under professors of medicine in this,

or in some other university, anatomy, chemistry,materia medica and pharmacy, institutes of medicine,practice of medicine, surgery, midwifery, and the dis-eases peculiar to women and children, general patho-logy, practical anatomy, (unless it has been attended inthe year of extra-academical study allowed,) duringcourses of six months.

Clinical medicine--that is, the treatment of patients in apublic hospital under a professor of medicine, by whom ’’,lectures on the cases are given, during courses of sixmonths, or two courses of three months each.

Clinical surgery, medical jurisprudence, botany, andnatural history, including zoology, during courses of atleast three months each.

That besides the course of clinical medicine he has at-tended, for six months of another year, the medical orsurgical practice of a general hospital, accommodatingeighty patients.

That he has attended, for at least six months, by ap-prenticeship or otherwise, the art of compounding anddispensing drugs.

That he has attended for at least six months, by ap-prenticeship or otherwise, the out-practice of an hos-pital, or the practice of a dispensary, or that of aphysician, surgeon, or member of the London or DublinSociety of Apothecaries.

That he has studied, for one year previous to his gradua-tion, in the University of Edinburgh.

Every candidate for the degree in medicine must deliver,before the 24th of March of the year in which he proposes tograduate, to the dean of the faculty of medicine,-

First. A declaration, in his own handwriting, that he istwenty-one years of age, or will be so before the day ofgraduation; and that he will not be then under articlesof apprenticeship to any surgeon or other master.

Secondly. A statement of his studies, as well in literatureand philosophy as in medicine, accompanied with propercertificates.

2’lai7°clly. A medical dissertation, composed by himself, inLatin or English.

Before a candidate be examined in medicine, the medicalfaculty shall ascertain, by examination, that he possesses acompetent knowledge of Latin.They shall then proceed to examine him, either vivc2 voce, or

in writing; first, on anatomy, chemistry, botany, institutes ofmedicine, and natural history, bearing chiefly on zoology; andsecondly, on materia medica, pathology, practice of medicine,surgery, midwifery, and medical jurisprudence. Students maybe admitted to an examination on the first division at the endof the third year of their studies.

If the candidate have satisfied the medical faculty, he willbe summoned, on the 31st of July, to defend his thesis ; andfinally, if the senate think fit, he shall be admitted on the firstlawful day of August, to the degree of Doctor.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, EDINBURGH.

I ABSTRACT OF THE REGULATIONS RELATING TO ADMISSIONI TO THE FELLOWSHIP, DATED MAY, 1851.

A fellow of the college before so elected must have obtainedthe degree of doctor of medicine.Graduates of foreign universities must previously submit to

an examination before the examiners of the college, whichshall consist-

1. Of a dissertation in English, on some subject in the prac-tice of physic selected by the examiners.

2. Of a vivd voce examination in English, chiefly on symp-tomatology, pathology, and therapeutics of diseases; but inpart, also, on anatomy, chemistry, botany, and physiology.

3. The examiners may institute such examination as theymay consider advisable for satisfying themselves that thecandidate has received a competent education.The mode of election of a non-resident is the same as that

of a resident fellow.The fees for a resident fellowship amount to .6130, and for

a non-resident, ,;(80, both inclusive of stamp duty. Fee paidby a resident licentiate, ;S100, by a non-resident, ,;(55, exclu-sive of any tax payable to government. Every resident fellowpays an annual subscription of ,61 ls. to defray the collegeexpenses.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, EDINBURGH.REGULATIONS.

Every candidate for a diploma must have followed thecourse of study, to be specified afterwards, in an universit1/, orat the seat of an established school of medicine; the lecturesdelivered at a provincial school will be held as qualifying forone year’s course of study, unless specially recognised formore.

COURSE OF STUDY.

1. Preliminary Instruction.-Every candidate must have re-ceived regular instruction in the elements of mathematics;and must have subsequently attended a course of mechanicalphilosophy of at least three months’ duration, and of not fewerthan sixty lectures.

2. Prctfessional Instruction.-The candidate must have beenengaged during a period of not less than twenty-seven months,including three winter sessions; in attending-Anatomy, two courses of six months each. Practical Ana-

tomy, twelve months. Chemistry, Materia Medica and Phar-macy, Institutions of Medicine or Physiology, Practice of Medi-cine, and Clinical Medicine, of each one course of six months, orof the last two courses of three months each. Principles andPractice of Surgery, two courses, six months each; or Prin-ciples and Practice of Surgery, and Military Surgery,* onecourse, six months each. Clinical Surgery, one course, sixmonths; or two courses, three months each; during theperiod of his attendance at the hospital where they are de-livered. Midwifery and Diseases of Women and Children,one course, three months. Medical Jurisprudence, one course,three-months. Practical Chemistry, one course, three months.

Also a course of instruction in practical pharmacy, at thelaboratory of a surgeon or apothecary; or of a chemist anddruggist recognised by the college; or of a public hospital ordispensary; and he must produce evidence that he has beenen*gaged in compounding and dispensing medicines for six months.

3. The six-months’ courses delivered in Edinburgh mustconsist of not fewer than 110 lectures, with the exception ofclinical medicine, clinical surgery, and military surgery. Thethree-months’ courses must consist of not fewer than sixtylectures. Two London courses of three months each, on anyof the above subjects, will be taken as equivalent to one six-months’ course.

4. The candidate must also have attended, for twenty-onemonths, a public general hospital containing on an averageeighty patients.Every candidate, on applying to the president, will be re-

quired-lst. To produce satisfactory evidence of his havingattained the age of twenty-one years; and, 2ndly. To presenta tabular statement exhibiting the full amount of his pro-fessional education. Unsuccessful candidates will be remittedto their studies, for a period not, in any case, less than threemonths.

* The course of military surgery must be delivered by a professor of thatbranch in a university; or by a lecturer who, in addition to the other requi-site qualifications, has served in the medical department of the army 01navy.

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Every candidate will be required to translate into Englishsome portion of a Latin author.The sum payable for a diploma at present is .610, including

all fees.Note.-The licentiates of the Royal Colleges of Snrgeons in

Scotland and in Ireland are exactly on the saine footing inEngland, as to privilege in surgery, with the members of theRoyal College of Surgeons of England.

SURGEONS’ HALL, EDINBURGH.Chemistry: Dr. George Wilson and Dr. Anderson, at ten.Surgery: Dr. R. J. Mackenzie and Mr. Spence, at ten.Natural Philosophy: Dr. George Lees, at twelve.Clinical Medicine: Dr. A. Halliday Douglas, at the Royal In-

firmary, Tuesday and Friday, at twelve.Anatomy: Mr. Struthers, at one.Materia Medica and Dietetics: Dr. Douglas Maclagan, at

two.

Midwifery : Dr. Campbell, at two.Practice of Physic: Dr. Alexander Wood, at three.Analytical Chemistry and Practical Chemistry (three months’

coarse): Dr. Wilson and Dr. Anderson, from nine A.M. tillfour P.M.

Practical Anatomy: Mr. Struthers and Dr. A. Struthers, fromnine A.M. till four P.M.

Anatomical Demonstrations: Mr. Struthers, at four.Royal Infirmary, at noon daily.

FEEs.-For the first of each of the above courses, ae3 5s.;the second, .62 4s. Perpetual: Natural Philosophy, PracticalChemistry, and Practical Anatomy, ae3 3s.; Anatomical De-monstrations, -2 2s.; Practical Anatomy with Demonstra-tions ae4 4s.; other classes, ae5 5s.; Analytical Chemistry, ae2 a amonth, or £ 10 for the winter session.-Royal Infirmary: Per-petual Tickets, X12 17s.; Annual, ae5 7s. 6d.; Half-yearly,.63 5s. 6d.; Quarterly, .6113.—Edinburgh Maternity Hospital,six months, ae1 3.The above courses of lectures qualify for examination at

the Roval Colleges of Surgeons of Edinburgh, England, andand Ireland; the Apothecaries’ Hall, London; the Faculty ofPhysicians and Surgeons, Glasgow; the Boards of the Army,Navy, and East India Company; and also, so far as required,for the Universities of London, Oxford, Cambridge, St. An-drew’s, and Aberdeen.The course of Practical Anatomy, if attended conjointly

with the Royal Infirmary, qualifies for graduation at theUniversity of Edinburgh; and these two branches of thecurriculum of study for the Edinburgh medical degree,whether taken alone or with other prescribed classes, consti-tute one of the four anni-medici required from candidates.

UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW.

.P?’M:ep6—Duncan Macfarlan, D.D.Clerk of Senate-Allen Thomson, M.D.

FACULTY OF MEDICINE.

Session 1851-52, commencing Tuesday, Nov. 4,1851.Surgery: Dr. Laurie, at nine A.lII.’Practice of Physic: Dr. W. Thomson, at ten.Chemistry, Practical Chemistry, Chemical Laboratory: Dr.T. Thomson, and Dr. li. D. Thomson, at ten, twelve, and tillfour.

Anatomy,Anatomical Demonstrations,and Practical Anatomy,Dr. Allen Thomson, at one, eleven, and from ten till four.

Botany: Dr. Walker Arnott, at twelve.Medical Jurisprudence: Dr. Rainy, at one.Materia Medica : Dr. John Couper, at four.Midwifery: Dr. Pagan, at five.Institutes of Medicine: Dr. Buchanan, at seven.Eye (Waltonian Lectures): Dr. Mackenzie, at six.Royal Infirmary, visit at two.Clinical Lectures at three.

Fees for each class, S3 3s., with the following exceptions :-Practical Anatomy with Demonstrations, Practical Chemistry,and Lectures on the Eye, each .63 2s. ; Chemical Laboratory,1 Is. per month.

DEGREES IN MEDICINE.

1. Every candidate must lodge, with the clerk of senate, acertificate of moral character, by two respectable persons,with evidence that he has attained the age of twenty-one.

2. He must produce evidence of having attended, for fouryears, an university in which medicine is regularly taught, ormedical lectures delivered, in London or Dublin; and at leastone year of the four must be spent at the University ofGlasgow. In each year, he must have attended at least twocourses of lectures of six months’ duration; but if he shallspend one year only at the University of Glasgow, then hemust attend at least three courses of lectures delivered there,two of them at least being of six months’ duration.

3. He must produce certificates of having attended one ormore courses of lectures on the following subjects; eachcourse, with the exception of Forensic Medicine and Botany,being of six months’ duration: if of less extent, then twocourses should be deemed equivalent to one of six months:-Anatomy and Physiology; Chemistry; the Theory or Institutesof Medicine; Practice of Medicine; Materia Medica andPharmacy; Midwifery; Surgery; Forensic Medicine, not lessthan three months; Botany not less than three months;*Anatomical Dissections, six months; General Hospital, two ’

years. The hospital must contain eighty beds at least, andthe student must spend at least one-half of the period of hisattendance on it in the physicians’ wards.

4. Each candidate must lodge, with the clerk of (Le senate,the above certificates, and a schedule of his course of studyproperly filled up; together with an English essay on somemedical subject chosen by himself, two months before the timeof graduation; that is, on or before the 1st of March, or the10th of June, yearly.

5. No student shall be entered in any medical class laterthan the first of December, without the special permission ofthe senate, and he must produce evidence of his name havingbeen enrolled in the library book, on or before that day, aswell as an express certificate of his regular attendance, byeach professor on whose lectures he attends.

6. Every candidate shall give satisfactory evidence that hepossesses a competent knowledge of the Latin language; andshall undergo full examinations on all the subjects includedin the curriculum.

DEGREES IN SURGERY.

1. The regulations respecting certificates of age and moralcharacter, are the same as those under the head of degrees inmedicine.

2. Candidates for the degree of master of surgery, shall produce evidence that they have attended ’medical lectures, inone or other of the universities or schools already specified,for four years, during which they must have attended one ormore courses on the following subjects; the extent of eachcourse, with the exception of forensic medicine, being sixmonths, or the equivalent two courses of a shorter duration.The candidate must have attended not less than three coursesof medical lectures in the University of Glasgow. In eachyear of his study, he shall have attended at least two or morecourses of lectures, of six months’ duration.-Anatomy; Surgery; Chemistry; Theory or Institutes of Medicine; Practiceof Medicine; Midwifery; Materia Medica. and Pharmacy; gForensic Medicine; Anatomical Dissections, six months; a,General Hospital two years, in which the student must

attend one half of the prescribed period in the surgical wardsand the other half in the medical.

, 3. The regulations as to lodging certificates of attendance,

with an essay in English, and as to the candidate’s knowledgeof Latin, are the same as under the head of medical degrees,only the essay is to be on a surgical subject.The days of graduation are the last Wednesday of April, and

the first Wednesday of August.The fee to library, &c., for the degree of M.D., is .615.The duty on stamp for ditto, £ 10 3s.The fee for the degree of Chirurgise Magister, is aeI0 1 Os.N.B. Candidates for degrees, who attended the medical

classes in the University of Glasgow, previous to the session1839-40, are admitted to examination, according to theregulations which existed at the time when they began tostudy medicine.

ANDERSON’S UNIVERSITY, GLASGOW.The winter session will begin on Tuesday, November 4th

1851. Lectures will be delivered daily for six months, on thefollowing blanches of medical science:-Anatomy, Descriptive, Surgical and Practical: Dr.

RI. S. Buchanan.

* 1‘o course of botany attended previous to 1839-40, is received, unless itshall have been delivered in an University.

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Demonstrator: Dr. George Buchanan.Surgery: Dr. Iluuter.Institutes of Medicine:Principles and Practice of Medicine: Dr. AndrewAnderson.

Chemistry, and Practical Chemistry: Dr. Penny.Materia Medica., Pharmacy, and Dietetics: Dr. Easton.Midwifery: Dr. Paterson.Medical Jurisprudence and Police: Dr. Crawford.Natural Philosophy: Dr. Taylor, thrice weekly.Botany: Mr. Bell.Mathematics: Mr. Laing.All the classes, except Practical Chemistry and Botany,

last for six months each. Fee for each class, X2 2s.; per-petual, X3 3s.The courses of lectures delivered during the summer ses-

sion, include Anatomy, Chemistry, Botany, Materia Medica,and Midwifery.

Students have the opportunity of witnessing the practice ofthe following hospitals-viz., Lying-in Hospital, 10s 6d. forsix months; Eye Infirmary, X2 2s. for six months; Royal In-firmary, X8 8 8s. for two years, including medical and surgicalclinical lectures, which are delivered four times weekly.The saloon for dissection, which is free to those attending

either of the courses of Anatomy, is open from nine A.M. to ’,four P.M.

Certificates of attendance on the above courses are receivedby the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London, Aberdeen,and St. Andrew’s, by all the Royal Colleges of Surgeons inGreat Britain and Ireland, by the Faculty of Physicians andSurgeons of Glasgow, by the Army, Navy, and East IndiaBoards, and by the Apothecaries’ Halls.

FACULTY OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS,GLASGOW.

NEW REGULATIONS REGARDING THE GRANTING THE DIPLOMA.

PRELIbiIN9RY INSTRUCTION.-Every candidate for the diplomamust have received regular instruction in the elements ofmathematics; and must have subsequently attended a courseof mechanical philosophy, of at least three months’ duration,and sixty lectures. He must also have been well instructedin Latin.

.. , . " , 1PROFESSIONAL INSTRUCTION.-The candidate must have been

engaged in attending the following courses of lectures duringnot less than twenty-seven months, including three wintersessions of six months’ duration each :-Anatomy, practical anatomy, and surgery, two courses of

six months each; or, instead of the last, surgery, and militarysurgery, one course of six months each; chemistry, theory orinstitutes of medicine, practice of medicine, materia medica,midwifery, &c., and medical jurisprudence, one course of sixmonths each; clinical medicine and clinical surgery,* twocourses of three months each; botany and practical chemistry,one course of three months each; a general hospital, with tleast eighty beds, twenty-one months; practical pharmacy,six months.

Medical students who had commenced their education priorto May, ]850, have some exemptions.The faculty recommend attendance on lectures on the eye,

and hospital for eye diseases; on a lying-in hospital; an hospitalfor syphilitic diseases; pathological anatomy, natural history,and comparative anatomy; and the acquisition of Greek,French, German, and Italian.The candidate must fill up and subscribe a schedule of the

above curriculum, and satisfy the registrar that his educationhas been conducted agreeably to the above regulations; alsothat he is twenty-one years of age, and of good moral cha-racter ; and lodge in the hands of the registrar the sum of tenpounds, as the fee for his diploma, before being admitted toexamination.He is examined, partly orally, and partly by written ques-

tions without the use of books, and by writing, at the dictationof any of the examiners, two or more formulae of prescription;and his knowledge of Latin shall be tested by translationof a portion of a Latin author.

Unsuccessful candidates shall be remitted to their studiesfor a period of not less than three months after a first rejec-tion, and six months after a second, and their names shall beconcealed. In case of rejection two guineas are retained bythe examining board.

* These not to be attended at the same time.

Glasgow students are required to enter their names in abook of registration, at the Hall of the Faculty, on or beforethe 30tli November in each year; and at the end of thesecond week from the commencement of summer classes.Examination in Latin on the second and following Saturdays

in December annually. Students who have taken a degree inArts, from a university of Great Britain or Ireland, exemptedfrom these examinations.

UNIVERSITY AND KING’S COLLEGE MEDICALSCHOOL,ABERDEEN.

The winter session, 1851, commences on the first Monday ofNovember, and terminates on the third Friday of April.

Midwifery: Dr. Rainey, at eight A.M.Anatomy: Dr. Redfern, at nine A.M.Chemistry: Dr. Fyfe, at a quarter to eleven A.M.Surgery: Dr. Kerr, at three P.1i.Materia Medica : Dr. Templeton, at twelve. ’

Anatomical Demonstrations: Dr. Redfern, at two P.lIf.Practice of Medicine: Dr. Harvey, at one P.3i.Institutes of Medicine: Dr. Christie, at twelve.

The summer session begins on the first Monday of May, andcontinues three months :-

Botany : Mr. Wyville Thomson.Medical Jurisprudence: Dr. Jamieson.Practical Chemistry: Dr. Fyfe.Anatomy, Histology, and Microscopical Manipulation:

Dr. Redfern.Clinical lectures (by Drs. Kilgour and Keith) are delivered

daily at the Royal Infirmary. Certificates of attendance onthese lectures are received by the various Universities, Col-leges of Surgecns, and Medical Boards, in England and Scotland. Examinations for degrees in medicine are held imme-diately after the termination of the summer and wintersessions,.

MARISCHAL COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY OFABERDEEN.

FACULTY OF MEDICINE.

The winter session of 1851-52; 0f six months’ duration, com-mences on Monday, the 3rd of November.Anatomy: Dr. A. J. Lizars, at twelve. Fee, X3 3s.Practical Anatomy and Demonstrations: Dr. A. J. Lizarsand Dr. Bevaridge, at two. Fee, X2 2-?.

Chemistry: Dr. Clark, assisted by Dr. Smith, at three. Fee,63 3s.

Practical Chemistry: Dr. Clark and Dr. Smith, at eleven.Fee, ae3 3s.

Materia Medica: Dr. Henderson, at nine A.3i. Fee, ae3 3s.Institutes of Medicine, (Physiology:) Dr. Ogilvie, at eight

A.3i. Fee, ae3 3s.Practice of Medicine: Dr. Macrobin, at three. Fee, ae3 38.Surgery: Professor Pirrie, at one. Fee, .63 3s.Midwifery, and Diseases of Women and Children : Dr. Dyee,

at four. Fee, ae3 3s.Natural History: Dr. Macgillivray, at eleven. Fee, X3 38.Mental Diseases: Dr. J. F. Ogilvie, at eleven. Fee, ae3 3&Janitor’s fee for each class, 2s. 6d. No other fee.

Hospital practice, daily, at ten o’clock. The Royal Infir-mary contains upwards of 280 beds. Separate courses of lee-tures on clinical medicine and clinical surgery are deliveredby Dr. Kilgour and Dr. Keith. Perpetual fee to the hospital,including unlimited attendance on the clinical lectures, ae8 88.The resident physicians’ and surgeons’ assistants are selected

from the senior students. Fee, .625, which includes bed andboard. Dresserships are conferred on students without fee.Summer session, of three months’ duration:—Botany and Natural History: Dr. Macgillivray; fee, to each

course, ae2 2s.

Anatomy: Dr. A. J. Lizars and Dr. Beveridge; .62 2s.Medical Jurisprudence: Dr. Ogston; fee, £2 2s.

The various courses delivered qualify for examination there;and at the universities of London, Dublin, Oxford, Cambridge,Glasgow, and St. Andrew’s; the Royal Colleges of Surgeonsof England, Edinburgh, and Ireland; the Apothecaries’ Hall,London; and the Medical Boards of the Army and Navy andEast India Company.

[For the curriculum, see the Students’ Number for 1849.]

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UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREW’S.

Examiners for Degrees in Medicine-George E. Day, M.D.,F.R.S., Professor of Anatomy and Medicine; Arthur Con-nell, F.R.S.E., Professor of Chemistry; William Pyper,LL.D., Professor of Latin.

Assistant Examiner-Andrew Anderson, M.D., Professor ofMedicine in the Andersonian University, Glasgow. ,

1. Every candidate for a diploma in medicine shall produce satisfactory evidence-of unexceptionable moral character;of having had a liberal and classical education; of havingcompleted the twenty-first year of his age.

2. Fellows, members, and licentiates of the Royal Collegesof Surgeons of England, Edinburgh, and Dublin, of the RoyalCollege of Physicians of London, of the Faculty of Physiciansand Surgeons of Glasgow, and of the London Apothecaries’Company, are eligible as candidates for the degree of Doctorof Medicine, on producing their diploma or licence.

3. Candidates not holding any of the qualifications enume-rated in the above clause, must produce satisfactory proof thatthey have regularly attended lectures delivered by professorsin some university, or by fellows of the Royal Colleges ofPhysicians or Surgeons of London, Edinburgh, or Dublin, forfour complete winter sessions, or for three winter and threesummer sessions, on the following branches : Anatomy, twocourses of six months each; Practical Anatomy or Dissections,twelve months; Physiology, Chemistry, Surgery, Clinical Sur-gery, Practice of Medicine, Clinical Medicine, each one courseof six months; Practical Chemistry, Materia Medica andPharmacy, Midwifery and Diseases of Women and Children,each one course of three months; and that they have diligentlyattended for at least two entire years the medical practice insome public hospital in Great Britain or Ireland, containingat least 100 beds, and having a regular establishment of physi-cians as well as surgeons.Examinations take place twice annually, commencing on the

first Wednesday in May, and the third Wednesday in October.Graduation fee, twenty-five guineas; and in the event of a can-didate being found unqualified, he shall forfeit five pounds ofthe fee, which will be accounted for to him when he passes’s’-aif3 examination at a subsequent trial. Candidates can onlybe admitted to examination at other periods by favour of theSenatus Academicus. The graduation fee in this case is fiftyguineas. - - - -.-

The examination extends over two days, and is conductedpartly in writing, and partly orally. On the first day candi-dates are required to give a written translation of a passagefrom a Latin medical author, and are examined in theElements of Chemistry, Materia Medica, and Anatomy andPhysiology. On the second day, in Pathology, Practice ofMedicine, Principles of Surgery, and in Midwifery.The degree is conferred on the following morning by the

Rector, in the hall of the public library of the university.

UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN.

Chancellor-The King of Hanover.Vice-Chancellor-Archbishop of Armagh, D.D.Provost of Trinity College-F. Sadleir, D.D.Begiw Professor of Physic-W. Stokes, M.D.Professor of Anatomy and Physiology- R. Harrison, M.D.Professor of Surgery-R. W. Smith, M.D.Professor of Chemistry-J. Apjohn, M.D.Professor of Botany-G. I. Allman, M.D.

Candidates for the degree of bachelor of medicine must begraduates in arts, and may obtain the degree of M.B. at any ofthe half-yearly periods of graduation, provided the requisitemedical examination shall have been completed.The medical education of a bachelor of medicine comprises

attendance on the following courses of lectures, provided thatone and not more than three of the courses which begin inNovember be attended during each of four sessions. Threeof these courses, at the discretion of the candidate, may beattended in the University of Edinburgh. The courses are-

Anatomy and Surgery, Demonstrations and Dissections,Chemistry and Botany, by the four university professors;Materia Medica, Practice of Medicine, Institutes of Medicine,and Midwifery, by the professors to the College of Physicians,on the foundation of Sir Patrick Dun. Clinical Lectures atSir Patrick Dun’s Hospital during three courses, of whichthe summer course may be one. A course of Medical Juris-prudence and of Practical Chemistry, each of three months’

duration, are also required to be attended in the MedicalSchool of the University.Attendance for nine months on the practice of some general

hospital approved by the Board of Trinity College, withattendance on the Clinical Lectures on Medicine and Surgerythere delivered, is required from candidates for the degree ofM.B., in addition to nine months’ attendance on Sir PatrickDun’s Hospital, with three consecutive courses of ClinicalLectures, each of three months’ duration.

Students in Arts, having their names on the college books,will be permitted to attend one course, free of expense, witheach of the university professors. They will also be exemptedfrom classics in their junior sophistic year, if they are at thetime engaged in attending the lectures of two of the universityprofessors, and, under the same circumstances, from one ex-amination in their senior sophistic year.No testimonium or certificate of attendance will be issued

to such students until after they have proceeded to their firstdegree in medicine. On their application for the liceat ad exami-nandum, the professors will transmit, direct to the registrarof the school of physic, the names of those students who havequalified themselves.Should the student who has had the privilege of free attend-

ance, desire to obtain an official testimonium before proceed-ing to his medical degree, he must, on obtaining it, pay to theprofessor the usual fee.Each pupil, before he be admitted to attend the clinical

lectures, must pay the professor £3 3s. for each three-months’course, and pay to the treasurer of Sir Patrick Dun’s Hospital.610 1Os., unless he shall have been matriculated in the Uni-

I versity of Dublin, or of Oxford, or of Cambridge, and shallhave continued his study in art, under a tutor, in one of thesaid universities for the space of two years at least, in whichcase he shall pay the sum of X3 3s. to such treasurer for each

half-year. The fees for each of the other courses are £3 3s.The days of graduation are Shrove Tuesday and the first

Tuesday in July. The medical examinations terminate on theTuesday in the preceding week. The degree of doctor ofmedicine may be taken at the end of three years from thedate of the degree of bachelor. No further examination is re-quired. Fees for degrees:-Bachelor of Medicine, £11 17s. 6d.;Doctor of Medicine,, £22.

QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY, IRELAND.LANDQUEEN’S03 UNIY VERSITY , IRELAND..

COURSES OF INSTRUCTION, SCHOLARSHIPS, DEGREES, ETC.

Matriculation Examination.-Candidates for matriculationwill be required to pass an examination in the following sub-jects:-The Greek and Latin languages. The following books in

each at the option of the student: Homer-The first fburbooks of the Iliad. Xenophon-The first three books of theAnabasis. Lucian-Walker’s Selections. Virgil-The firstsix books of the JEneid. Horace--The first book of theOdes, and the first book of the Satires. Sallust-The Con-spiracy of Catiline, and Jugurthan War. Cæsar—The fifthand sixth books of the Gallic War:Arithmetic and Algebra: The first four Rules of Arith-

metic ; Proportion; Vulgar and Decimal Fractions; Extrac-tion of the Square Root; Addition; Subtraction; Multiplica-tion ; and Division of Algebraical Quantities; Proportion;Simple Equations. . _ , _ _ _ T _..

Geometry : The first and second books of Euclid.Geography: Outlines of Modern Geography. This exami-

nation may be passed at the commencement of the first,second, or third years of medical study, but only the matricu-lated student can compete for scholarships and prizes.

FACULTY OF MEDICINE.

Candidates for the degree of M.D., from the Queen’s Uni-versity in Ireland, must produce evidence of full age of twenty-one years, and of having pursued the following course ofstudy:-

First year: Anatomy and Physiology, Chemistry, French orGerman, six months each; Natural Philosophy, Botany, threemonths each. Second year: Anatomy and Physiology, MateriaMedica, Practical Anatomy, six months each; Practical Che-mistry, three months. Third year: Surgery, Midwifery,Clinical Surgery, six months each; Comparative Anatomy,three months. Fourth year: Practice of Medicine, MedicalJurisprudence, Clinical Medicine, six months each.In addition to the foregoing classes, candidates for the de-

gree of M.D. will be required to attend a general hospital

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during twenty-four months, or a general hospital duringeighteen months and a dispensary during six months, andalso a course of practical pharmacy for three months.

Candidates will be required to attend one-third, at the least,of the above classes in some one of the Queen’s Colleges inIreland.

Graduates in arts will be admitted to examination for thedegree of M.D. two years after having obtained the degree ofA.B., provided they shall have complied with the above regu-lations, except that which requires four years’ professionalstudy.The fees payable by matriculated students in medicine, on

behalf of the college, will be-First year, (including the matriculation fee,) .63; second,

third, and fourth years, each .62; degree of M.D., exclusive ofstamp duty, £5.Non-matriculated students pay, on behalf of the college, five

shillings for each course of lectures.Class fees:-Anatomy and Physiology, £3; each subsequent

course, .62; Comparative Anatomy, £1 10s.; Practical Anatomy,£3; Practical Chemistry, £3; Natural Philosophy, XI 10s.;Botany, £1 1 Os. For all the other classes :-first course, .62;each subsequent course, £1.

QUEEN’S COLLEGE, CORK.President-Sir Robert Kane, F.R.S., M.R.I.A.Vice-President-John Ryall, LL.D.

FACULTY OF MEDICINE.

Dean of the Faculty-Dr. Alex. Fleming.Anatomy, Physiology, and Practical Anatomy: Dr. Benj.

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Practice of Surgery: Dr. Dennis B. Bullen.Practice of Medicine: Dr. D. C. O’Connor.Materia Medica: Dr. A. Fleming.Midwifery: Dr. J. A. Harvey.Natural Philosophy: Dr. G. F. Shaw.Chemistry: Dr. J. Blytb.Natural History and Botany: The Rev. W. Hincks.Modern Languages : Dr. de Vericour.Demonstrator of Anatomy: Dr. N. J. Ilobart.Clinical Medicine and Ciinical Surgery, at the North and

South Infirmaries; Clinical Midwifery at the Lying-in Hos-pital.

SCHOLARSHIPS AND PRIZES.

Session 1851-52: Six Scholarships, of the value of X20 each,will be awarded to students in medicine-viz., two to stu-dents commencing their first year, two to students commencingtheir second, and two to students commencing their third year.

In all subsequent years: Eight Scholarships will be awardedto students in medicine, thus: six junior scholarships of .620each, to students commencing their first, second, and thirdyears-two to each year-and two senior scholarships, of X40each, to students commencing their fourth year. The scholar-ships are tenable for one year only, but the scholars of eachyear are eligible, at its expiration, to the scholarships of thesucceeding year.The scholarships of the first year are open to all students

who have passed the matriculation examination. The scholar-ships of the second and third years are open to all studentswho have passed the matriculation examination, and shallhave completed one Ann2ss Medicus* in one of the Queen’sColleges. The two senior scholarships of the fourth year areopen to all students who have passed the matriculation exa-mination, and shall have completed, in one of the Queen’sColleges, the course of study of the first, second, and thirdyears. The scholar must attend, during the year of his ap-pointment, the classes recommended for his year of study inthe order of the curriculum.

QUEEN’S COLLEGE, BELFAST.[The regulations, scholarships, &c., are precisely alike in

each of the colleges.]President-Rev. P. Shuldham Henry, D.D.Vice-President-Thos. Andrews, M.D., F.R.S., M.R.I.A.

FACULTY OF MEDICINE.

Anatomy and Physiology, and Practical Anatomy: HughCarlile. M.D.

Practice of Surgery: Alexander Gordon, M.D.* Two six-months’ courses of the curriculum, or one six-months’ and two

three-months’ courses, constitute an Annus Medicus.

Practice of Medicine: John C. Ferguson, A.M., M.B.Materia Medica: Horatio Stewart, M.D.Midwifery: William Burden, M.D.Chemistry: Thomas Andrews, M.D., F.R.S.Botany: George Dickie, M.D.Lectures on Medical Jurisprudence are delivered by Echlin

Molyneux, Esq., Professor of English Law, and John F.Hodges, M.D.LABORATORY PUPILS.-The laboratory is open on five days

in each week, during the college session, from nine till three,for practical instruction in chemical manipulation and analysis,under the direction of the professor of chemistry and hisassistant. Fee for working six months, £10; one month, £ 3.

QUEEN’S COLLEGE, GALWAY.[The regulations, scholarships, &c., are precisely similar in

each college.]President-Edward Berwick, A.B.Vice-President-Rev. J. P. O’Toole, D.D.

FACULTY OF MEDICINE.

Anatomy and Physiology and Practical Anatomy: CrokerKing, M.D., M.R.I.A., F.R.C.S.I.

Practice of Surgery: James V. Browne, M.D.Practice of Medicine: N. Colohan, M.D.Materia Medica: Simon M’Coy, M.D.Midwifery: Richard Doherty, M.D.Two scholarships of X20 a year for matriculated students of

the first year, two of X20 for those of the second year, andtwo of X20 for those of the third year, will be awarded.Two prizes, value X14 each, will be given to the students

next in order of merit to those who have obtained scholar-ships.

KING AND QUEEN’S COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANSIN IRELAND.

(Founded by Charter of CHARLES II. Re-Incorporated byWILLIAM and MARY.)

Visitors-The Lord Chancellor; Chief Justice Queen’sBench; Chief Justice Common Pleas; Chief BaronExchequer.

President-William Stokes, M.D., Regius Professor ofPhysic.

Vice-President and Censor-Henry L. Dwyer, A.M., M.B.Censors-Wm. Barker, M.D.; Cathcart Lees, A.B., M.B.;Henry Kennedy, A.B., M.B.

Treasurer-John Mollan, M.D.Registrar-Wm. E. Steele, A.B., M.B., 15, Hatch-street.

’ Physicians practising in Dublin, and within seven milesthereof, and those attached to county infirmaries and prisonsin Ireland, are required by the charter and statutes to possessthe licence of the college.

Candidates for the licence who have completed the pre-scribed course of education are admissible to examination.Members of any Apothecaries’ Company alone are ineligible

for admission to the licence.Licentiates of three years’ standing, who are graduates of

the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, or Dublin, are eligiblefor election to the fellowship.Fee for the licence, £30; to graduates in medicine, Univer-

sity of Dublin, .615; stamp duty, .615.Fee for the fellowship, .620; stamp duty, .625.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, IRELAND.President-Leonard Trant.Vice-President-Edward Hutton.The Council-Sir Philip Crampton, Bart., Alexander Read,

J. W. Cusack, Arthur Jacob, W. Tagert, A. Ellis, R. 0.Williams, F. Rynd, R. Adams, J. Barker, W. Colles,J. H. Power, L. E. Lipsett, J. Macdonnell, M. Corr, M.Stapleton, P. Bevan, H. Irvine, and J. S. Hughes.

Honorary Secretary of the College-Alexander Read.Secretary of the Council-Henry Maunsell.

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Court of Examiners-T. Rumley, J. Smyly, C. Fleming, J.Morgan, R. Tuohill, and R. Butcher.

PROFESSORS.

Anatomy and Physiology: Arthur Jacob.Descriptive Anatomy: J. Hart and J. Macdonnell.

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Smgery: H. Porter, and W. Hargrave. sional education equal to the curriculum prescribed by theMedicine: C. Benson. Council.Chemistry: W. Barker. The examination for the Licence to act as Assi8tant to an apo-Materia Medica : R. C. Williams. thecaryin compounding and dispensing medicine, will be con-Midwifery: T. Beatty. fined to practical pharmacy.Medical Jurisprudence: T. P. Geoghegan. The candidate for the Assistant’s Licence may present him-Botany: A. Mitchell. self for examination at the termination of three years’ appren-Fellows of the College are members of the corporation, ticesbip. ,

and are admitted by examination ; letters testimonial are The Court of Examiners sits every Friday, at two o’clock.

granted to licentiates; and a diploma in midwifery to fellows A rejected candidate cannot be re-admitted to examinationand licentiates, educated and examined in that branch of sur- until the expiration of six months. ,. ,, ,

gery. An examination of apothecaries’ apprentices takes place at

Candidates for the Fellowship must be twenty-five years of the Hall, on the first week in May, annually, upon some sub-age, and must give proof of liberal preliminary education, and ject in pharmaoeutio or pathological analysis, and a prize ofgood conduct during professional education. They are re- five guineas is awarded to the successful competitor.quired to produce certificates of surgical studies for six years, (three of which must be for exercises in Dublin), and also of JERYIS-STEET HOSPITAL. DUBLIN.practice as house-surgeon or dresser in an hospital ; as well

WINTER SESSION, 1851-52,

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as certificates of attendance on hospitals, lectures, and dissec- WINTER SESSION, 1851-52, COMMENCING NOVEMBER 1.tions, as required from Licentiates; with the addition of P7tysicians-Dj-. J. Moore Neligan, Dr. John Hughes.Botany, Comparative Anatomy, and Natural Philosophy. Fee, Surgeons--Mr. R. P. O’Reilly, Mr. Andrew Ellis, Dr. M. H.£26 5s. ; if the candidate be a licentiate, X10 10s. Stapleton, Dr. R. Harrison, Dr. A. BaDon, Dr. J. S.

Candidates for Letters 1estii?-tonial are required to produce Hughes, Dr. J. H. Power.certificates of preliminary classical education; of four years The hospital will be visited daily at nine o’clock A.M.professional study (three of them in metropolitan schools), One medical and two surgical clinical lectures will bealso three years’ attendance on hospital lectures and dissections. given weekly, by the attending physicians and surgeons.Fee, £21. An extensive dispensary is attached to the hospital, in which

Candidates for the Midwifery Diploma must be Fellows or the pupils are allowed to perform all the minor operations inLicentiates of the College, and are required t.o produce certi- surgery, under the guidance of the attending surgeons.ficates of attendance on midwifery lectures and practice, The situation of resident pupil is open to pupils as well aswith proof of having attended thirty cases of parturition. apprentices of the hospital, and the election for the ensuing

Candidates for the Fellowship and Letters Testimonial are session will take place by public examination, on Monday,publicly examined on two separate days, in anatomy, physio- November 10th, at ten o’clock A.31.logy, surgery, practice of medicine, and pharmacy. The ex- ____________

aminers are elected by a sworn jury of the Council appointed OF DUD IN HOSPITAL

by lot, teachers being ineligible. Fellows and licentiates of CITY OF DUBLIN HOSPITAL.the College are qualified to practise as Surgeons in any part The course of practical, medical, and surgical instructionof the British dominions, and to be appointed medical officers will commence on the 28th of October. Clinical lectures willto the army and navy, public hospitals, infirmaries, dispen- be delivered daily during the session, by Dr. Jacob, Dr.saries, and workhouses. Benson, Dr. Hargrave, Dr. Williams, Mr. Tafnell, and Dr.

Geoghegan; and on the Diseases peculiar to Women and

APOTHECARIES’ HALL OF IRELAND. Children, by Dr. Beatty.POTHECARIES’ HALL OF IRELAND. Dr. Jacob’s Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Eye, illus-Laws regarding the Education of Apothecaries.--Every can- trated by the cases in the hospital, are open to the pupils in

didate must undergo two separate examinations, one for the attendance.Certificate of Appuentice, the other for the Licence to Practise.Every candidate for the Ceg-tificate of Apprentice will be ex- SOUTH-EASTERN LYING-IN HOSPITAL.

amined in the following Books: in Latin -the Catiline War Cumberland-street, Merrion-square, Dublin.of Sallust, and the first three books of the Æneid of Virgil; Cumberland-street , Merrion-square, Dublin.

in Greek-the Gospel of St. John, and the first twenty Master-Dr. Thomas R. Mitchell.

Dialogues of Lucian, or the first two Books of Homer’s Iliad; Consulting-Physicians-Sir Henry lllarsh, Bart., M.D., andin French-Telemachus, or the History of Charles XII.; in Dr. D. J. Corrigan.Science-the first two Books of Euclid, and Algebra, to the Consulting-Surgeons-Mr. Collis and Mr. John Woodroffe.end of simple equations.

Algebra, to the

Consulting-Accoucheurs-Dr. Thomas E. Beatty and Dr.Every candidate for the Licence to Practise as an Apothe- Robert L. Nixon.

cary, must lay before the Court the certificate and the inden- Rcsident-Physician-Dr. Edward Williams.ture of apprenticeship; certificates of attendance at the school FEES FOR SIX MONTHS.of Apothecaries’Hall, or at some other School of Medicine Hospital Practice ,. £4 As Practice, includingrecognised by the Court: on chemistry, anatomy, physiology, Hospital Practice, externe, X4 4s.; Practice, includingmateria medica, demonstrations and dissections, theory and Clinical Lectures, £10 10s.; Theoretical Lectures, .e2 2s.;practice of physic, surgery, midwifery, and the diseases of Hospital Diploma, 10s. 6d. theoretical lectureswomen and children, six months each; practical chemistry,* * Dr. Mitchell will deliver a full course of theoretical lecturesbotanv and natural history, and medical jurisprudence, three at the Dublin School of Medicine and of clinical lectures at months each. ch Twelve months’ attendance on the entire prac-

the hospital. A premium for both practical and theoreticaltice of a med ico-c hirurgical

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hospital ’.. recognised by the Court, t midwifery will be given at the end of the session.tice of a medico-cliirurgical hospital recognised by the Court, midwifery will be given at the end of the session. bycontaining not less than fifty beds, and where clinical instruc- Universities lectures of this hospital are recognised bytion is regularly given, and a certificate of having assisted in Andrew’s; the Colleges of Surgeons, Dublin and London;at least thirty cases of midwifenv practice, twenty of which Apothecaries’ Colleges of and London; East India Company, at least thirty cases of midwifery practice, twenty of which Apothecaries’Halls, Dublin and London; East India Companymust be attended in a recognised hospital. and Army and Navy Medical Boards. The examination will be, in translating and explaining the

and Army and Navy Medical Boards.

processes of the British Pharmacopoeias and extemporaneous prescriptions, in chemistry and general physics, in materia DUBLIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE,medica and therapeutics, in natural history and medical Peter-street.

botany, in anatomy and physiology, in the theory and practice This school will open for practical Anatomy on the 1st ofof medicine, in midwifery in medical jurisprudence. October, and the lectures will commence the first week inGentlemen presenting letters testimonial from any of the November

Royal Colleges of Surgeons in Great Britain or Ireland, will Anatomy and Ph siolo Dr. J. H. Sawyer, Mr. E. A. Stokerbe admitted to examination for the licence of the Hall, on Anatomy and Physiology: Dr. J. H. Sawyer, Mr. E. A. Stokerproducing proof of three years’ legal apprenticeship to a Practical Anatom and Dissections: Mr. E. Hamilton Dr. G.qualified practising apothecary in Ireland, and of a profes- Practical Anatomy and Dissections: Mr. E. Hamilton, Dr. G.qualified practising apothecary in Ireland, and of a profes- H. Kidd, Mr. J. Woodroffe.* The practical chemistry must be attended in a laboratory, and no cer- Theory and Practice of Surgery, and Operative Surgery: Dr.ificate will be received by the Court that does not testify that the candi- Pllili Bevarx.

a ry, and Operative & j

date has prepared the several Pharmacopœial preparations which are usually Philip Bevan.made in the laboratory.

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Theory and Practice of Medicine: Dr. J. Moore Neligan.

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Midwifery, and Diseases of Women and Children: Dr. T. R.Mitchell.

Materia Medica : Mr. Wm. E. Steele, M.B. ,

Chemistry and Practical Chemistry: Mr. John J. Barker, M.B.Botany: Dr. C. Asken. ,

Fee for each of the above courses, £2 28.

ST. MARK’S OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL,(FORMERLY THE PARK-STREET SCHOOL OF MEDICINE,)

Dublin.

Mr. Wilde will deliver a course of lectures on the theoryand practice of ophthalmic and aural surgery, and give prac-tical instructions in operating, at this institution, during thewinter session. Clinical instruction upon diseases of the eyeand ear at the dispensary attached to the hospital. This insti-tution contains twenty beds. Hospital attendance, and clinicalinstruction for three months, £2 2s.

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE COLLEGE OF MEDICINEAND PRACTICAL SCIENCE.

[We have been requested to publish the following announce-ment in the present LANCET. We would readily have in-serted it in the Students’ Number, had we been dulyfurnished with the necessary information.-ED. L.]

SESSION 1851-52.

The lectures will be delivered in accordance with the regu-lations of the University of London, the Royal College ofSurgeons of England, the Society of Apothecaries, and thePharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.Anatomy, General, Microscopic, and Descriptive: Dr. John

Scott Sanderson and Mr. W. R. Shiell.Physiology: Dr. George Robinson. Daily, at eight A.M.

Fee, £4 4s.Surgical Anatomy and Demonstrations: Mr. T. A. Furness,Mr. J. B. Fife, and Dr. T. Smith Rowe. Daily, exceptSaturday, at three P.M. Fee, S3 3s.

Principles and Practice of Physic: Dr. R. M. Glover, F.R.S.Ed., and Dr. George Robinson, Physicians to the EasternDispensary. Daily, except Saturday, at five P.M. Fee,.63 3s.

Principles and Practice of Surgery: Sir John Fife, Mr. H. G.Potter, and Mr. W. H. Fife, surgeons to the NewcastleInfirmary. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at eight P.M.Fee, £3 3s. These lectures will be illustrated by cases inthe Newcastle Infirmary.

Principles of Chemistry: Mr. W. H. Dixon. Monday, Tues-day, Wednesday, and Thursday, at seven P.M. Fee, .64 4s.

THE SUMMER SESSION, COMMENCING MAY 1, 1852.

Midwifery, and the Diseases of Women and Children: Dr.Wm. Dawson. Daily, at eight A.M.

Botany and Vegetable Physiology: Mr. H. W. Watson andMr. G. Gibson. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, andFriday, at nine A.M. Fee, £ 3 3s.

Medical Jurisprudence: Dr. J. B. Bramwell. Monday, Tues-day, Thursday, and Friday, at four P.M. Fee, £3 3s. Thetoxicological department of the course will be given byDr. Glover.

Materia Medica and Therapeutics: Dr. Chas. Goswell, B.A.Daily, except Saturday, at three P.M. Fee, £3 3s.

A Series of Lectures on Practical Pharmacy, by Mr. GeorgeGibson, will be added to the Course, and so arranged asto suit gentlemen intending to offer themselves for examina-tion at the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.

Practical Chemistry: Mr. W. H. Dixon.Operative Surgery: Mr. T. A. Furness, surgeon to the New-

castle and to the Eastern Dispensary; and Mr. J. B. Fife,surgeon to the Eye Infirmary.

Morbid Anatomy: Mr. J. Nicholson.In addition to the above regular courses, special lectures will

be delivered on-

Clinical Ophthalmic Surgery, by Sir John Fife and Mr.J. B. Fife. Illustrated by cases at the Newcastle EyeInfirmary.

Clinical Lectures on Mental Diseases, by Dr. Geo. Robinson,consulting physician to the Dunston Lodge and BenshamLunatic Asylums. And on the Use of Chemistry in theDiagnosis of Disease, by Dr. R. M. Glover.

HOSPITAL PRACTICE. -The Newcastle Infirmary contains170 beds. Clinical lectures are regularly delivered. Accordingto last report, 1426 in-patients, 1782 out-patients, and 1599casual patients, were attended at this institution.MEDICAL AND SLIRGICAL PRACTICE.-Twelve months, £7 7s.;

Perpetual, X17 17s.Perpetual ticket to all the lectures, qualifying for the

diploma of the College of Surgeons, and the Licence of theApothecaries’ Company (exclusive of Practical Chemistry),£42.

Correspondence.

DR. SIMPSON’S REPLY TO " ISAAC IRONS."

"Audi alteram nartem."

To the Editor of THE LANCET.

SIR,-For some time I was at a loss to determine whether itwas not my duty to repel, by very different measures from thepresent, the attack in THE LANCET of September 20th,published under the assumed name of Isaac Irons." Amongthe circumstances which have principally decided me to followthe present simpler method, is the unanimous convictionwhich all my medical fiiemds who have either written or

spoken to me on the subject have expressed on one point;viz. that there is in the medical profession only ONE indi-vidual who does use, on professional subjects, language soindiscreet as that of the well-known writer in question; andthat, after all, this individual was scarcely legally responsiblefor his own outbreaks of violence.The circumstance of my being President of the Royal

College of Physicians of Edinburgh, is a matter which seemsparticularly to annoy " Irons," for he alludes to it more thanonce in his letter, and in one point of view it is in itself thebest answer to his intemperate insinuations. The election tothe Presidentship of the College of Physicians is in the handsof the Resident Fellows, or, in other words, in the hands ofthose who are living and practising as medical men in Edin..burgh, and who consequently know me and all my professionaldoings and conduct, infinitely better than any one residing ata distance, like " Irons." And " Irons" may rest fully assuredthat had I ever been guilty in the slightest degree of any im-propriety, moral or professional, such as he seems anxious toimpute to me, I should never have been elevated to thePresidentship of the College of Physicians; an honour whichI confess I greatly value, not only because it is the highesthonour to which a Scottish physician can possibly aspire, butalso because I was elected to it (and I believe elected unani-mously) by the free votes of my fellow practitioners; and thattoo at an age when the office has been conferred upon few.On various professional points " Irons" and I have the mis-

fortune to disagree. Whether he or I be right I most willinglyleave to time and experience (the only true tests) to deter-mine ; and of their ultimate verdict I have no fear. But cer-tainly any existing diversity as to this or that method of prac-tice, is no reason whatever why one man should attempt tobrand another who chances to disagree with him with the im-putation of quackery. I have never, on any occasion, made asecret of any point or peculiarity in my practice. It has beenopen and patent to the study and criticism of all. I have alwaystaught every part and item of it tomypupils,and,as many foreignand British physicians can testify, I have always gladly shownit, and its full results to my professional brethren. Of courseI am not foolish enough to imagine that my brethren of themedical profession will, without due consideration and expe-rience, adopt any practical doctrines in uterine pathology thatI or any one else may please to propose. Any difference,however, in opinion and practice may assuredly be stated, and,if necessary, discussed between professional men in the lan-guage of gentlemen. But on this, as on other occasions," Irons" strangely seems to suppose that the medical professionof England are weak-minded enough to mistake mere personalabuse and scurrility for argument, while he evidently forgetsthat it is, on the contrary, generally acknowledged that suchweapons are seldom or never used, except in cases where allproper and legitimate arguments are actually wanting.In more than one point " Irons" passes even these bounds,

and recklessly imputes to me opinions which I at least neverheld. Take one for an example: he charges me with an attempt" to substitute the Cæsarian section for the induction of pre-mature labour." I never held or dreamed of such a doctrine;