Mr. CARPUE will commence his Lectures on Anatomy, Surgery, &c. on the 1st of October.- Particulars at Mr. Carpue's, No. 50, Dean Street, Soho.

Dr. CLARKE's and Mr. CLARKE'S Lectures on Midwifery, and the Diseases of Women and Children. The Winter Course of these Lectures will commence on Friday the 5th of October, at the house of Mr. Clarke, No. 10, Upper John Street, Golden Square. The Lectures are read every day from a quarter past ten o'clock in the morning, till a quarter past eleven, for the conve nience of Students attending the Hospitals. The Students will have Labours, when properly qualified.-For Particulars, apply to Dr. Clarke, No. 1, New Burlington Street, or to Mr. Clarke, No. 10, Upper John Street, Golden Square.

Dr. CLOUGH, Physician Manmidwife to the St. Mary-le-bone General Dispensary, &c. will on Monday the 8th of October, at ten in the morning, commence his Winter Course of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery, including the Diseases of Women and Infants, at his Lecture Room, 68, Berner's Street. The evening Courses as usual, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at seven, during the Season. For Syllabus and Prospectus of the Course, apply as above.

Dr. CLUTTERBUCK will begin his Autumn Course of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Physic, Materia Medica, and Chemistry, on Friday the 5th of October, at ten o'clock in the morning precisely, at his house, No. 1, Crescent, New Bridge Street; where further particulars may be had, or at the General Dispensary, Aldersgate Street. The Lectures are given daily viz, Theory and Practice, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays Materia Medica and Chemistry, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and turdays, at the same hour.

Dr. DENNISON and Dr. BYAM DENNISON will commencero their Course of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Midwif ery and the Diseases of Women and Children, at the London Hos-d pital, on Monday, October 8, at eleven o'clock. For particuron lars, enquire at Dr. Dennison's, 37, Broad Street Buildings, dryd of Mr. Price, at the Hospital. 9294T 8.M

Dr. HOOPER and Dr. AGER will commence their Lectures on dr the Theory and Practice of Physic, the Materia Medica, and Chemistry, on Monday October the 1st, 1810, at the Theatre in Cork Street, Burlington Gardens, at eight o'clock in the morning. A Prospectus with Particulars may be had, by applying to Dr. Hooper, at his house, No. 21, Saville Row,

Mr. Moor, Surgeon-dentist to her royal highness the Duchess of York, will commence a Course of Lectures on the Structure and Diseases of the Teeth, on the 11th of October, in which will be explained the complete Practice of the Dentist. Further particulars may be known at his house, No. 6, Palsgrave Place, Temple.

Dr. RAMSBOTHAM will commence his Lectures on the Science and Practice of Midwifery on Wednesday, Oct. 10, at his house, No. 9, Old Jewry, which will be illustrated by anatomical preparations and casts from a celebrated valuable Museum. The Prospectus may be had as above.

Dr. REID's rext Course of Lectures, on the Theory and Prac tice of Medicine, will commence on Monday the 8th of October; and will conclude on Monday the 31st of December. The Lectures will be given at nine o'clock in the morning, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at Dr. Reid's house, Grenville Street, Brunswick Square; where further Particulars may be known.

Dr. JAMES ROBERTON, Member of the Royal College of Physicians, and Physician to the British Lying-in Hospital, will commence his next Course of Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Midwifery, and the Diseases of Women and Children, on Thursday the 4th of October, at a Quarter past ten in the morning, at Mr. Bell's Museum, No. 10, Leicester Street, Leicester Square. -House pupils will have the privilege of attending Mr. Bell's Lectures, and Dr. Roberton's Demonstrations of Anatomy and Dissection. For particulars enquire at Dr. Roberton's house, 14, Old Burlington Street, Burlington Gardens, or at the Museum, Leicester Street, where the Lectures will be delivered.

Mr. SHUTE will commence his Winter Course of Lectures on, Anatomy, Physiology, and the Principles and Operations of Surgery, on Monday the 1st of October, at the Anatomical Theatre, Bristol, at eight o'clock in the morning.

Mr. TAUNTON will commence his Autumnal Course of Lectures on Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, and Surgery, on Saturday, October 6, 1810, at eight o'clock in the evening precisely, which will be continued every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at the same hour. Particulars may be had by applying to Mr. Taunton, Greville Street, Hatton Garden.

Dr. TUTHILL will begin his Winter Course of Lectures on the Practice of Physic, and on the Laws and Operations of Chemis try, on Monday October the 1-t, 1810. Further Particulars may be known by applying to Dr. Tuthill, at his house in Soho Square, where the Lectures are delivered.

Mr. STEVENSON, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, Pupil of the late Mr. SAUNDERS, has nearly ready for publication, a practical Work on a very prevalent Disease of the Eye.

CORRESPONDENCE.

Communications are received from Dr. J. Bradley and Mr. White, which will appear in our next Number.

Medical and Physical Journal.

VOL. XXIV.]

OCTOBER, 1810.

[NO. 140.

Printed for R. PHILLIPS, by E. Hemsted, Great New Street, Fetter Lane, London.

THE Proprietor of the MEDICAL AND PHYSICAL JOURNAL respectfully announces, that he has made arrangements for securing to this work increased activity and interest. The value of the Communications must, as heretofore, depend on the liberality of the Faculty; and on the opinion entertained of the superiority of this method of disseminating facts and opinions, over the fugitive, expensive, and less efficacious one of printing tracts and pamphlets; and in the respect, it is simply necessary to state, that the circulation of this JOURNAL is universal wherever the English language is read. It is in future intended to devote a larger portion to foreign Medical Ltiterature, and to give more effect to the department of criticism. The article of intelligence will also

receive an encreased interest.

The aid of all the correspondents and friends of this work is requested in cooperation of the intentions and designs of its Proprietor, and there will then be no doubt, but the MEDICAL JOURNAL will continue to serve as the acceptable Gazette of the Faculty in all parts of the world. The name of a new Editor will appear in the next Number.

HAVING

AVING paid some attention to the natural history, and medicinal qualities of Tea, I opened your last Journal with the hope of acquiring information from Mons. Cadet's account of its unwholesomeness.

As tea affords a beveridge I daily enjoy with pleasure, I was gratified in finding, from his chymical analysis, that instead of evincing its unwholesomeness, the title of his essay, it appears to prove its wholesomeness, more cogently than perhaps any other performance on the subject of this exotic. It proves, that it contains gallic acid and tansius, which may be considered as properties calculated to strengthen, rather than to debilitate the constitution. Who would say, that Peruvian bark is unwholesome because it (No. 140) contains

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contains tansius? or that wheat and potatoes are debilitating because they contain animal gluten?

Although the experiments of Mons. Cadet are favourable to the wholesomeness of tea, yet chemical analysis does not fully determine the dietetic qualities of substances. If we refer to three articles in general use, and consequently very universally known, salt-petre, common salt, and sulphur, what information as to their wholesomeness would chemical analysis convey : The public might be told, that they contain aquafortis, spirit of sea salt, and oil of vitriol; that a few drops of any of these taken inwardly would excoriate the throat and stomach; or, applied externally, would burn their clothes to rags, and even destroy the hardest stones; or combined, dissolve gold itself; yet, experience confirms the cook in the use of salt-petre, and common salt; and the apothecary of sulphur.

The most general objection against tea, is that of its sedative and debilitating power, which the experiments of Mons. Cadet, if they mean any thing, would tend to controvert. This supposed sedative power has been attempted to be established on experiments also, which I shall extract from an inaugural thesis, printed in 1769, and leave your medical readers to reconcile them with those of Mons. Cadet in 1809.

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"In abdominis cavitatem, atque membranam cellulosum, ranæ injeci circiter trés drachmas aquæ stillatitia odorata. Post viginti minuta alterum ranæ crus, seu pes posterior, multum adficiebatur, dum parum mobilitatis, aut sensibilitatis, monstrabat, quæ adfectio per quatuor horas perseverabat, et rana in statu torpido insensili universalis ultra novem horas manebat, donec gradatim ad pristinam vigorem rediret. Simili ratione liquorem a distillatione theæ viridis superstitem, atque ulteriori evaporatione magis concentratum injeci, sed inde nullum effectum sensibilem inductum vidi.

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"a Nerves Ischiaticis ranæ denudatis, atque cavitati abdominis, aquam stillatitiam fragrantem adplicui, intra dimidiam horam extremitates posteriores penitus paralyticæ insensilesque deveniebant, et post horæ circiter spatium ranæ vivere desiit.

b" Liquorem a distillatione residuum, eadem ratione alii ranæ admovi, sed nullos inde natos observare potui ef fectus sedantes, immo virtutem magis stimulantem, quam sedativam, præstare videbatur.

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c "Extractum in aqua solutum, et sub iisdem conditionibus, iisdem partibus admotum, nullum effectum sensibilem produxit."

London, September 5, 1810.

J. C. MOTTLES.

To the Editors of the Medical and Physical

SIR,

HAVING

Journal.

AVING perused many valuable and rare cases in your useful Journal, I take the liberty to transmit for your consideration one which does not seem altogether void of interest.

R. Smith, ætat. 63, had been subject to frequent attacks of the gravel. He was seized in the month of May last with pain, extending across his back and loins; much difficulty in passing urine, which was turbid, and precipitated a considerable quantity of thick sediment on standing for a few hours.

He was ordered laxative and mucilaginous medicines, which, in the course of a few weeks, so far relieved him that he left off medicine, and continued pretty well till the beginning of July, when he again applied. He could now scarce pass any urine without the greatest difficulty, screaming out violently when he made the attempt. He also complained of a pain continually, extending along the course of the urethra, which was so tender that he could scarcely bear the least pressure applied to it. At this time neither the penis nor scrotum appeared the least inflamed or swelled. Bougies and the catheter were often attempted to be introduced, but neither could be passed into the bladder. The stricture appeared near the prostate. On withdrawing the catheter, near an inch of its point was covered with bloody Its introduction was attended with such excruciating pain, that he could seldom be prevailed on to suffer the attempt;-and as he voided his urine in a full stream, and in considerable quantity, although accompanied with the most violent pain imaginable, the neighbours comparing it to the throes of labour; the attempt to pass it was therefore laid aside. After the urine was voided, the pain continued for a few minutes, and then subsiding left the sensation of

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