THE NEW-YORK MEDICAL GAZETTE, AND JOURNAL OF HEALTH, IS PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY S. S. & W. WOOD, 261 PEARL-STREET; D. MEREDITH REESE, M. D., LL. D., 775 BROADWAY, NEW-YORK. PRICE TWO DOLLARS A YEAR, IN ADVANCE, and if not paid within the first quarter, Three Dollars will be charged. Single numbers six cents. Postage, any distance, not more than one cent and a half. Vol. 1. SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1850. No. 1. COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK. The Forty-fourth Session of the College will be commenced on Monday, 14th of October, 1850, and continued until March 13th, 1851, (Commencement day.) ALEXANDER H. STEVENS, M. D., L.L. D., President of the College, and Emeritus Professor of Clinical Surgery. JOSEPH M. SMITH, M. D., Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and Clinical Medicine. JOHN B. BECK, M. D., Professor of Materia Medica and Medical Jurisprudence. JOHN TORREY, M. D., LL D., Professor of Botany and Chemistry. WILLARD PARKER, M. D., Professor of the Principles and Practice of Surgery. CHANDLER R. GILMAN, M. D., Professor of Obstetrics and the Diseases of Women and Children. ALONZO CLARK, M. D, Professor of Physiology and Pathology, (including Microscopy.) CHARLES E. ISAACS, M. D., Demonstrator of Anatomy. FEES.-Matriculation Fee $5, fees for the full course of Lectures $94, Demonstrator's ticket $5, Graduation fee $25, board (average) $3 per week. The prerequisites for graduation are-21 years of age, three years of study, including two full courses of Lectures, the last of which must have been attended in this College, and the Presentation of a Thesis on some subject connected with Medical Science. In addition to the regular Course, and not interfering with it, a Course of Lectures will be commenced on Monda 10th September, and continued until the 14th October. This Course will be free. It is known to the friends of Medical Education, that this Institution was among the first to take a stand in favor of augmenting the number of Professors, prolonging the term of Leres and increasing the facilities for Clini cal Teaching, when these great measures of Reform were demanded by the nearly unanimous vote of the American Medical Association. From this position it has never receded. While others have talked of Reform, the College of Physicians and Surgeons has acted. A Seventh Professorshipthat of Physiology and Pathology-has been established, and a gentleman called to fill it who confessedly stands pre-eminent in that department of Medical Science. By him Microscopic Anatomy has been taught with a fulness of illustration nowhere equalled in this country, while Pathology has been the subject of almost daily demonstation. As to Clinical Teaching, the importance of which is now everywhere acknowledged, the Clinique of the College, as it is one of the oldest, is believed to be by far the largest in the country. Here the Students have opportunities of seeing week by week a large and important class of medical and surgical diseases, but this Clinique is not expected nor intended to be a substitute for Hospital Teaching. In both the large Hospitals of New-York, the Students of the College receive instructions from their own teachers-Professor Smith being Senior Physician to the New-York Hospital, Professor Parker one of the Surgeons, and Professor Clark one of the Physicians to Bellevue. In both these institutious Clinical Instruction is regularly given, and they, together with the College Clinique, present to the Student an amount and variety of disease only to be found in a large metropolis. UNIVERSITY OF NEW-YORK. The Lectures will commence on Monday the 21st day of October, and will be continued, under the following arrangement, until the last day of February: VALENTINE MOTT, M. D., Professor of the Principles, Practice and Operations of Surgery. GRANVILLE SHARPE PATTISON, M. D., Professor of General, Descriptive and Surgical Anatomy. MARTYN PAINE, M. D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. GUNNING S. BEDFORD, M. D., Professor of Midwifery and the Diseases of Women and Children. WILLIAM DETMOLD, M. D., Professor of the Institutes and Practice of Medicine. JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER, M. D., Professor of Chemistry and Physiology. Appointments by the Professors of Surgery and Anatomy. Prosector to the Professor of Surgery, VALENTINE MOTT, Jun., M. D. Demonstrator of Anatomy, WILLIAM DARLING, M. D. In addition to the usual course of Lectures on Chemistry, Professor Draper will deliver a distinct Course on Physiology, consisting of two Lectures every week, to be delivered in the evening. Professor Pattison will also extend his course of instruction by delivering an additional Lecture one evening weekly during the Session. For this additional instruction there will be no extra charge. The Faculty have established Three Cliniques: 1st, A Surgical Clinique, held every Saturday, by Professor Mott: 2d, An Obstetric Clinique, held every Monday, by Professor Bedford: 3d, A Medical and Surgical Clinique, held every Wednesday, by Professors Pattison and Detmold. Clinical Instruction is given at the New-York Hospital every day. The Bellevue Hospital, the Eye and Ear Infirmary, and the Dispensaries are also open to the Students. The Fees for a full Course of Lectures $105, Matriculation Fee $5, Practical Anatomy $5, Graduation Fee $30. JOHN W. DRAPER, M. D., Secretary of the Faculty, 380 Fourth-street, New-York. THE NEW-YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE. Chartered by the Legislature of this State during the last winter, is expected to go into full operation on the first Monday in November next. The preparation of the College edifice is in the hands of the architect, and the work will proceed with all possible dispatch. The following appointments have been already made; HORACE GREEN, M.D., Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine. R. OGDEN DOREMUS, Professor of Chemistry. The other Professors have not yet been chosen, and applications from the profession for the chairs of Materia Medica and Pharmacy, of Midwifery, and of Anatomy, are respectfully invited. Such applications will be regarded as confidential, and may be directed to JOHN S. C. ABBOT, NO. 43 Lafayette Place, New York. Every facility for the acquisition of a correct and thorough medical education will be provided in this Institution, and no pains will be spared to place it, in every respect, on the highest level among the Schools of Medicine in the country. But the very short period which has been allowed its founders to effect the necessary arrangements, obliges them, at present, to content themselves with this imperfect announcement. New-York, June, 1850. COLLEGE OF PHARMACY OF THE CITY OF The regular Winter Course in this Institution, comprising Lectures on Che- mistry, Materia Medica, and Pharmacy, and on Botany, will commence early in November, and be continued on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Even- ings of each week until the first of March, at the Lecture-Room, 179 Broad- way, adjoining the Laboratory of Messrs. Doremus and Harris. LECTURES ON MATERIA MEDICA AND PHARMACY, by Prof. B. W. MCCREADY, M.D., and on BOTANY, by Prof. I. F. HOLTON. LECTURES ON CHEMISTRY, by Prof. R. O. DOREMUS. The Physical and Chemical Characteristics of the different articles of the Materia Medica will be fully treated of, with their action on the Human System, and the Lectures will be illustrated by specimens of the different Drugs from the Cabinet of the College, collected during the last twenty years. The Botanical Lectures will be illustrated by specimens of Flowers and parts of Plants, and still more satisfactorily by a complete suite of enlarged Facilities will be furnished, in connection with the Laboratory of the Pro- fessor of Chemistry, for the study of Practical Analysis. Tickets for the Course on Materia Medica and Pharmacy, at $5 00, on Bo- tany at $3 50, and on Chemistry at $7 00, may be procured of JOHN MILHAU, 183 Broadway; J. S. ASPINWALL, 86 William-street; GEO. D. COGGESHALL, 421 Pearl-street; WEISSMAN & CASSEBEER, 257 Broome-street; JOHN PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE. FIFTH, SOUTH OF WALNUT STREET. The Winter Course of Lectures for 1850 and 51, will commence on Monday, 14th October, 1850, at 5 o'clock, P.M. A preliminary course will be given during the two weeks preceding the session. Degrees will be conferred early Surgery-JAMES M'CLINTOCck, M.D. Materia Medica-RUSH VAN DYKE, M.D. Theory and Practice-THOS. D. MITCHELL, M.D. Institutes of Medicine-JAMES BRYAN, M.D. Anatomy-JAMES M'CLINTOCK, M.D. Comp. Anatomy-M. W. DICKESON, M.D. Obstetrics-F. A. FICKARDT, M.D. Demonstrator of Anatomy-N. R. MOSELEY, M.D. Fee for the Full Course, $34 00; Matriculation, paid once only, $5 00; Graduation, $5 00; Fee for those who have attended two Full Courses in other Colleges, $45 00; Dissecting Ticket, $10 00; Perpetual Ticket, $150 00. Full Course Candidates will be furnished with the Pennsylvania Hospital The fee for the respective tickets may be paid to each member of the Fa- culty, or the whole amount may be paid to the Dean, who will issue a certi- ficate which will entitle the student to the ticket of each Professor. The Spring Lectures for 1851 will commence about 17th March. Degrees The American Publishers of the LONDON LANCET feel much gratif cation in announcing that with the July Number, being the commencement of a New Volume of that Journal, will appear the first of a Series of Portrait- of MEMBERS OF THE MEDICAL AND SURGICAL PROFESSION o Great Britain and Ireland. The Series will include Biographies of al the distinguished Physicians and Surgeons who occupy important public offi ces, and who may have obtained distinction by their labors and researches in the great field of Medical and Surgical Science. SIR BENJAMIN BRODIE, BART., F. R. S., (Full-page Engraving,) Sergeant-Surgeon to the Queen, will be the Subject of Also, in the same Number, the first of a Course of Lectures on the Anato- my, Physiology and Pathology of the NERVOUS SYSTEM, embodying the Further, the GULSTONIAN LECTURES, just delivered before the Since the LONDON LANCET, the original Journal of its kind, was first Lectures on a great variety of subjects connected with the Theory and Prac- Original Contributions in the greatest profusion. Correspondence on Medical Subjects by Practitioners of Celebrity. The News of the Day; and, never before attempted, A Practical and Impartial Mirror of the Medical and Surgical Practitioners resident in all parts of the United Kingdom have expressed "The Mirror' is really a.valuable invention." "I have often thought it very extraordinary, that in the efforts made to rival the LANCET, nothing has been seen but feeble, very feeble at- "The LANCET must now reach the hands of every physician and sur. geon in the kingdom. 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It is dated July 6th, 1850, although issued in June, for the reason that it constitutes the first No. of Vol. I, and the second number will appear on the 13th of July, after which its regular weekly issue will be continued every Saturday. Persons wishing to subscribe from the beginning, will see the importance of transmitting their names to the editor before the 2d Saturday in July. Communications, and strictly professional advertisements, as also, books for review, &c. must be sent, free of expense, at least one week prior to the date when they are expected to appear. After the present issue, every weekly number will contain Twelve pages of reading matter, and the advertisements be restricted to the four outside pages. The extensive circulation given to this first number has constrained the use of more pages for advertisements than can be allowed hereafter, which our early subscribers will please excuse. For terms, &c., see the 12th page. All remittances of money for subscriptions or advertisements, should be made direct to the editor, 775 Broadway, New-York. TO THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. scientific dentistry, and other kindred departments of the healing art, have already spoken their concurrence of opinion in the desirableness of a medical newspaper this city, and their purpose to rally around its standard with their patronage. While our medical publishers, importers of chemicals, druggists, and others who cater for the profession, have manifested an eagerstrengthening the ties which bind together all who are ness to avail themselves of this additional mode of fellow-laborers in the service of the public health, and who mutually recognize each other as worthy of confidence in their respective spheres. 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The vindication of rational medicine and conservative surgery, in contradistinction from the fancies and follies of the times. II. The guardianship of the public health from the mischiefs of popular ignorance and delusion. The following departments will be opened in successive numbers, to be filled up with original and selected matter, as may from time to time be accessible: 1st. The public health, with sanitary measures for the prevention or mitigation of epidemics. The recent circular to the profession in the city and vicinity, though but very partially distributed, has been responded to so promptly and generally, that the editor has already received a subscription-list of which he has reason to be proud; and which has been grateful to his feelings, as the spontaneous expression of the most eminent among his brethren, that they approve and will sustain the enterprise. 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