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Extracts from a Letter from a Physician in London.

1. Taliacotian Practice.

Mr CARPUE, who succeeded so admirably in the brave Captain Latham's and another officer's cases, has produced a great sensation among the unprofessional as well as professional public. Trials are making, and more are in contemplation, to sup ply the loss of other parts besides the nose. To what extent the art of ingraftation may be practised, is not yet definable; but, in the mean time, applications are made from defective persons for the supply of parts; of course they must be second-hand organs, which it would be ludicrous at present to mention.

2. Fatal Hæmorrhage from Drawing a Tooth.

A man had a tooth extracted in I believe the usual circumstances a considerable hæmorrhage ensued. The discharge was attempted to be stopped by the well-known means, but in

The actual cautery was next employed; it succeeded for a time only the repetition failing, the carotid artery was next tied. This measure also failed under the hands of one of the most skilful surgeons in London, from whom every thing to be accomplished by art was to be expected; but the patient died from the discharge. Was the blood in this case coagulable?

3. Fatal Hemorrhage from Scarifying.

On scarifying and cupping between the shoulders in the usual way, the bleeding did not stop as was expected. The discharge continuing, the known measures were taken, but without success. It was found that the blood did not coagulate; and this uncoagulable state was the cause of the subject dying from the evacuation.

4. Inflammation of the Interior Coat of Vessels.

I have seen the disease seemingly of the vasa vasorum of the interior coat of the large blood-vessels several times like inflammation described by Mr Hodgson; but it attended other wellknown diseases, and I could not distinguish any peculiar symptoms referable to this inflammation-like state of the blood-vessels. Is it a species of erysipelas ?

5. Eau Medicinale.

The evidence of the infusion of colchicum in wine being the

renowned nostrum eau medicinale, is increasing, but not the evidence of its efficacy. It will, in a few years, be a most curious piece of history to account for the present evidence in its favour, when its fame shali be buried (as I believe) in the tomb of all the Capulets.

6. Mr SAMUEL YOUNG continues to practise in cancerous cases, upon the principle of pressure, in many cases with great relief, and in some with entire success; at least more benefit has been produced by his than by former modes of treatment.

On the 1st August, the Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh conferred the degree of Doctor in Medicine on the following gentlemen, after having gone through the appointed examinations, and publicly defended their respective inaugural dissertations.

Alexander Hamilton,
Adam Hunter,

James Johnstone,

John Richardson,
John Anderson,
Hugh Macfarlane,
Alexander Torrance,
Joseph James Forbes,
Alexander M. Geddes,
Stephen Wight,
James Harvey,
Zachariah Sillar.
James Cowan,

James Sibbald,

Archibald Skirving,

David Baird,

Geo. Hume Weatherhead,

David Ramsay,

Waltar Adam,

Ebenezer Clarkson,

William Black,

Hugh Guthrie,
Andrew Anderson,
David Hastie,

Moses Stephen Buchanan,

William Fraser,

John Dick,

John Couper,

OF SCOTLAND.

De Synocho Castrensi.

De Cruditate.

De Opio.

De Febre Flava.

De Pneumonia.

De Diabete Mellito.
De Febre Puerperarum.
De Nostalgia.

De Fistula Lachrymali.
De Gastritide.

De Febre, vulgo dicta Biliosa remittente.
De Dyspepsia.

De Læsione partis cervicis anterioris.
De Pneumonia.

SDe Sanguinis detractione in morbis

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curandis.

De Sanguinis missionis natura et usu.
De Diagnosi inter Erysipelas, Phleg-
monim et Erythema.

De Cerebri Concussione.
De Catalepsi.

De Hepatitide acuta.
De Pneumonia.

De Hydrocephalo acuto.
De Dysenteria.

De Hepatitide acuta.
De Ciborum Concoctione.
De Dyspepsia.

De Concoctione Ciborum.

J De Acidorum Muriatici et Oxymuria tici constitutione.

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Practical Anatomy under the superintendence of Dr Monro, jun.

During the Summer Session, Lectures will be given on the following Branches of Education.

Botany, By Dr Rutherford.

Midwifery, by Dr Hamilton.

Clinical Lectures on Medicine, by Dr Home.

on Surgery, by Mr Russell.

Medical Jurisprudence, by Dr Duncan, jun.

Dr CLUTTERBUCK will begin his Autumn Course of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Physic, Materia Medica, and Chemistry, on Wednesday, October 2, at Ten o'clock in the morning, at his house, No. 1, in the Crescent, New Bridge

Street.

Pupils admitted, as usual, to attend the Medical Practice of the General Dispensary, Aldersgate Street, where Clinical Lectures will be given weekly, by the Physicians in rotation, on the most interesting Cases that occur.

For particulars, inquire of the Apothecary at the Dispensary.

In the Press.

Oracular Communications, addressed to Students of the Me dical Profession, by ESCULAPIUS.

Inveniam viam, aut facium. '-LORD BACON,

Nec Deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus
Inciderit.'-HOR. de Arte Poetica.

Dr ADAMS has in the press, 'An Account of the Life, Doce trines and Opinions of the late Mr John Hunter, containing a perspicuous statement of his Discoveries, and of the Pathology of Surgery, as before his time.' The Work will be embellished with a fine Medallion Portrait of Mr Hunter, from a cast taken during life.

Communications have been received from Dr DICKSON, Dr LYALL, Mr KENNEDY, Mr GILL, and P. J.; and publications for review by Professor JOSEPH FRANK and SCARPA: Drs JURINE and ALBERS; Drs ARMSTRONG, SCUDAMORE and CALVERT; Messrs PRING, RIONG, WISHART, and an anonymous author, on the Animal Economy, of which as many as possible will be noticed in our next Number.

* Communications may be addressed to the Editors, to the care of Messrs CONSTABLE & Co. Edinburgh; Messrs LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, & BROWN, London; and JOHN CUMMING, Dublin, And we have to request our Continental friends to send any thing larger than a single letter to the care of Messrs PERTHEZ and BASSER, Booksellers, Hamburgh, as the expense of sending journals and packets by the post to this country is enormous.

No. XLIX. will be Published on the 1st of January 1817,

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