UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW. THE Medical Lectures in the University of Glasgow will begin on Tuesday the 1st of November, at the following hours: Dietetics, Materia Medica, and Pharmacy, by Dr Millar, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. Midwifery, by Mr Towers, at 11. Theory and Practice of Physic, by Dr Freer, at 12. Anatomy and Surgery, by Dr Jeffray, at 2 o'clock afternoon. Chemistry and Chemical Pharmacy, by Dr Cleghorn, at 7. Clinical Lectures on the cases of patients in the Royal Infirmary, on Thursday evening the 10th November, at 6 o'clock. Dr Brown will begin his Lectures on Botany about the beginning of May next. Regulations enacted by the Senate of the University of Glasgow respecting Degrees in Medicine. 1. That before any person can be allowed to be a candidate for a degree in medicine in this University, he shall appear personally before the Senate, and lay before them evidence that, during the space of three years, or sessions of six months each, he has regularly attended in some university, or in some medical school or schools of reputation, the following medical classes, viz. anatomy and surgery, chemistry and pharmacy, the theory and the practice of physic, materia medica, and botany. 2. That he shall bring forward evidence that, during one year at least, he has attended medical classes in this University. 3. That the candidate shall undergo three separate examinations in private by the medical professors of the University, and write a commentary on an aphorism of Hippocrates, and another on a case of disease propounded to him by the said examiners. The first examination shall be on anatomy and physiology; the second on the theory and practice of physic; and the third on chemistry, materia medica, pharmacy and botany. 4. That the examiners shall report to the Senate their opinion respecting the medical knowledge of the candidate; and if their report be favourable, his name, as a candidate for a degree, shall be entered in the minutes of Senate, and a day fixed when the candidate shall read his commentaries on the aphorism and case, and answer such questions on the several branches of medical science as shall be put to him by the examin. ers, in presence of the Senate. If the Senate be of opinion that the candidate has shown himself worthy of a degree, it shall be conferred in presence of the Senate, by the Vice-Chancellor, provided the candidate has not published a thesis, which he may or may not do, according to his own option; but, if he has published a thesis, he must defend it, and the degree must be conferred in the comitia. 5. That the whole of the examinations shall be carried on, and the commentaries on the aphorism and case must be written in the Latin language. The The following gentlemen have obtained the degree of Doctor in Medicine, from this University, within the last twelve months. Mr Maham Haig, Mr John Reid, Mr Richard Jones, Mr Charles Whittell Mr Stephen Geary Wilks, Mr John Brown, Mr Gabriel Jean M. De Lys, Mr Geo: Cunningham Monteath, Mr Samuel Caldwell, Mr George Wray, Mr Robert Muir, St George's Hospital. Dr PEARSON, F. R. S. senior physician to the Hospital, gives, on Phy. sic and Chemistry, three courses during the year, commencing in February, June, and October. On Therapeutics at a quarter before eight, Phy. sic at a quarter past eight, and Chemistry at a quarter past nine in the To commence morning, at his house, George Street, Hanover Square. October 5th, at eight in the morning. Single course of all the lectures, Perpetual to all the lectures, Perpetual to any two courses and the Clini Single course of Chemistry, Perpetual to the Chemistry, L. 8 8 10 10 7 7 4 4 6 6 M Home, F. R. S. surgeon to the Hospital, gives Lectures gratui tously to the pupils of the Hospital, on the principal Operations of Sur gery, commencing on the third Thursday in October, at twelve o'clock. Mr Gunning, F. L. S. surgeon to the Hospital, gives two courses of Lectures, on the Principles and Operations of Surgery, at his house in Conduit Street, Hanover Square. The first commences the beginning of October; the second in the middle of January. The Operations of Sur. gery are exhibited on the dead subject; directions given for the exami nation of dead bodies, with rules for drawing up reports of morbid appearances, both for medical and judicial uses; and the whole course illustrated by a reference to the cases which occur in St George's Hot pital. First and second courses, each L. 3, 35.-perpetual L. 5, 58. London Hospital. Dr Buxton will, on Monday 3d October, commence a course of Lecfures on the Theory and Practice of Medicine, and one on Materia Me dica. Report Report of Diseases treated at the Public DispensaRY, ( near Carey-Street,) London, from May 31st to August 31st 1808. The summer months have been, on the whole, dry and temperate, particularly June and August. In the middle of July, a few days of unusual heat occured; the thermometer in the shade having reached the altitude of 92° on the 13th, and 89° on the 14th of that month; and, towards the end, some heavy rains fell. The number of bilious diseases, which are commonly multiplied by continued hot weather, has, in consequence of the general mildness, been comparatively small The cases of cholera occurred in July. Those of synochus and diarrhoea were most numerous numerous in August, probably in consequence of the rains that fell in the beginning of this month and the end of July: about which time also, the cases of pneumonia, which assumed the acute form of pleuritis, appeared. The febrile diseases have put on a mild form. The synochus, or summer fever, has not, in general, shown any untoward symptoms, nor been protracted to any considerable length. Measles and scarlet-fever have been prevalent, but the former have disappeared without leaving behind the severe pneumonic symptoms, which usually ensue at a more unfavourable season of the year; and the scarlet fever has been either unattended with sore throat, or with a mild degree of it, except in one or two cases, in which a considerable tumefaction of the uvula, tonsils, and tongue took place, resembling rather the inflammatory cynanche, than the common concomitant of scarlatina. None of the cases terminated fatally. The case of intestinal hemorrhage occured in a girl of eight years of age, in consequence of having swallowed a great number of cherry-stones. These substances occasioned severe pain, and a considerable discharge of blood per anum, which were soon removed by the use of purgatives and glysters; and no other ill consequence ensued. The salutary effects of the interdiction of variolous inoculation by the governors of the small-pox hospital, are now conspicuous. Although the summer is the season of the usual prevalence of small-pox, no case has appeared at the dispensary during the last three months.--Aug. 31st 1808. T. BATEMAN. SOME time ago his Majesty in Council, upon reference to the Board of Admiralty, was pleased to double a pension granted to Dr Gilbert Blane, for his services as physician to the fleet in the West Indies during the American war, in consideration of his farther services while Commissioner of sick and wounded seamen, and in compensation for having been deprived of that office by a former Board of Admiralty, upon the reduction of that Board after the peace of Amiens. Cystic Hernia. WE have been informed, that Mr Allan Burns of Glasgow, last winter, met with an instance of that rare species of hernia. The tumor appeared in the pudendum of an old woman, and the bladder was found to have been protruded between the origins of the levator ani and obturator internus muscles; and the stricture might have been formed by the levator ani. From the very deep seat of the stricture, it would have been almost impossible to have removed it by art. The above preparation was exhibited by Dr Monro jun. during his lectures on hernia, who having obtained Mr Burns's permission, took a drawing of the parts, which is now in the hands of the engraver. On a future occasion we shall give a more full account of this interesting case. Extract of a Letter from Mr GIBB, Bolton, Lincolnshire, on Capital Operations on the Pregnant Subject, and Urinary Calculi. In your Journal for April last, the Inquirer, No. XIII. requested information concerning capital operations performed on the pregnant subject. About eight years ago, at the infirmary of this place, I amputated a leg, above the knee, of a married woman, in the fourth month of pregnancy, who was afterwards safely delivered at the usual time. The disease was white-swelling of the knee, of four years standing, but she was so anxious to have the operation performed, that she concealed her situation. In answer to his 4th query, on urinary calculi, stone is so rare a disease in this town and neighbourhood, that, in fifteen years, I only know of one case in our circuit where it was necessary to perform the operation of lithotomy, and not more than three or four cases where the calculi passed by the urethra in small pieces. We, almost all of us in the town, drink rain-water from the tops of the houses, kept in cisterns made of brick and mortar, or in water-tubs made of oak. In the country the water most used for culinary purposes and drinking is in general rain-water, collected and retained in pits made for that purpose in the pastures. The soil is generally strong clay, otherwise a light silt that does not long retain the water. Case of Hemorrhagy, in consequence of the extraction of the roots of a decayed tooth, by Dr ROBERT PATERSON, Elgin, Morayshire. On the second of May I was called to a man who had suffered great pain for some time before, from the decayed roots of one of the anterior molares in the lower jaw. I mentioned to him, that the only certain way of relieving him was by removing the fangs, which he readily agreed to, and was done by means of the key instrument, with but little pain, and, comparatively, little trouble. Next morning I was informed by his wife, that the part from which the stump had been drawn was still bleeding. I was the more surprised at this, as I was confident no violence had been used, and more particularly when, upon inquiry, I understood that the hæmorrhagy had not come on till several hours after the operation. On inquiring whether he was subject to profuse bleedings from slight wounds, I was informed that a mere scratch bled very profusely, and was stopt with difficulty; and that this was constitutional in his family. I recollected that a nephew of this man (though not a patient of mine), a young boy, had bled to death from a small cut which he accidentally received upon the inside of the upper pil |