[Outlines of the medical lectures, and of those courses of science the study of which is intimately connected with that of medicine].

  • University of London. Faculty of Medicine
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[1828]
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    frjtctuves of tile skull; Hemorrhage, Hernia, &c. and after these, Ulcers, Abscesses, Erysipe¬ las ; Mortification; Diseases of the urethra, Strictures, &c.—The Middlesex Hospital con¬ tains abundance of cases of cancers in the Can¬ cer-ward ; of syphilis in the two wards appro¬ priated to such patients. Diseases of the joints, distortions of the spine, and scrofulous dis¬ eases, will necessarily engage much attention during the course. As Mr. Bell will, at the request of the Council for the ensuing season, perform the duties of the Professor of Surgery, he will therefore arrange these lectures on the plan of a regular course. He will preface each set of cases with a discourse on the principles which belong to them ; and thus combine the lectures on the Theory and Prac¬ tice of Surgery with the Clinical observations. From this arrangement, and from Mr. Pat- tison combining with his* lectures a complete Course of operative Surgery, the medical students attending the University will have secured to them full instruction in General, Operative, and Clinical Surgery, without the payment of an additional fee. At the conclusion of the Course, Mr. Bell will grant the certificates for the Course of Surgery required by the College of Surgeons. CHEMISTRY. PROFESSOR, EDWARD TURNER, M.D., F.R.S.E. Every morning, (including Saturday,) from Ten to Eleven. First Course $ About 100 hours of) Fee =£4. Second Course ^ instruction each, $ £*3. These Lectures, forming a branch of general as well as of Medical education, will commence on the 3rd of November. The Lectures on Chemistry will be divided into two separate courses of equal length. The subjects to be discussed in each course arc enu¬ merated in the subjoined outline ; but as the plan embraces a very extensive department of knowledge, comprehending both the Science of Chemistry and its application in the chemical arts and to collateral sciences, it will be impos¬ sible to discuss every branch completely in the period assigned to each course. On this account it is thought advisable to make the following arrangement. In the First Course, the subjects comprised in the first and second parts of the prospectus will be fully treated, and a condensed view given of the third part. In the Second Course, a less detailed account will be given of most of the subjects belonging to the first and second parts, and those subjects will be considered at length which Were less amply discussed in the First Course. By this plan it is intended to give a complete view of the Science of Chemistry in each course, and during each academical session to treat fully of all its applications, as mentioned in the outline. PART I. I. Caloric—its nature, properties, mode of distri¬ bution, and effects ; the natural phenomena connected with it; and its uses and employ¬ ment in the Arts, in Domestic Economy, and in Chemistry. 2. Light, chiefly in relation to rts chemical agen¬ cies. 3. Electricity, Galvanism, and Electro-mag¬ netism. PART II. ]. Chemical Attraction or Affinity ; Doctrine of Definite Proportions; and Atomic Theory. 2. History and Properties of the twelve elemen¬ tary non-metallic bodies; namely, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, sulphur, phos¬ phorus, boron, selenium, chlorine, iodine, bromine, and fluorine ; fogether with the, immediate compounds which they form with each other, such as sulphuric, nitric, and muriatic acids, ammonia, carburetted hy¬ drogen, &e. 3. History and properties of the forty metals and their compounds — 1. With the non-metallic bodies; such as oxides, chlorides, carburets, sulphu- rets, &c. 2. With each other; such as brass, pinch¬ beck, bell-metal, and other alloys. 4. Salts, which will be arranged in groups ac¬ cording to the nature of their acid; as for example— Sulphates, Nitrates, Chromates, Muriates, &c. 5. Tile nature, properties, and analysis of mineral waters, which will be arranged under the six following heads: — 1. Acidulous waters, or those which derive their chief character from a free acid, 2. Alkaline waters, or such as contain a free alkali. 3. Chalybeate waters, or those which con¬ tain iron. 4. Su Iphurous waters, or those which con - tain sulphuretted hydrogen. 5. Saline waters, or those that derive their leading features from the presence of neutral salts. 6. Siliceous waters, or such as contain siliceous earth. PART III. 1. Vegetable Chemistry, comprehending 1. The history, properties, and prepara¬ tion of the proximate principles of plants, and substances of vegetable origin, such as the vegetable acids and alkalies, camphor, oils, alcohol, &c. 2. The processes of fermentation, and the changes to which dead vegetable matter is subject. 3. Chemical Physiology of vegetables, or the chemical phenomena concerned in the germination, growth, and nu¬ trition of plants. 4. Nature of soils, and mode of analysing them. The application of Chemistry to Agriculture will be treated of in this part of the course. 2. Animal Chemistry, including an account 1. Of the proximate principles of animals, and substances of animal origin; such as albumen, fibrin, gelatine, &c.