INTELLIGENCE.

DOMESTIC.

Medical School of New-York.

College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New-York, August 7th, 1809.

THE public has already been informed that the Regents of

the University, who are appointed by the Legislature, with a superintending power over all the incorporated seminaries of learning in the state, established, in the year 1807, a College of Physicians and Surgeons in the city of New-York, under their immediate direction, with a particular view to the advancement of medical knowledge.

After the first session, during which the members of the College and the professors endeavoured, with unremitting industry, to discharge the duties assigned them, and to fulfil the expectations of the public, the Legislature honoured the College with a signal mark of its favour, in the grant of a liberal endowment; thus insuring the stability of the institution, and enabling it to provide those expensive appurtenances, without which a course of medical lectures would necessarily remain incomplete. Henceforth this College will be found provided with all that is requisite for the most liberal medical education.

The New-York Hospital is regularly attended by three of the professors, under whose immediate directions the students of physic will have access to an excellent school of practical instruction. This institution usually contains more than 300 sick persons; and Clinical Lectures on the cases occurring there are given by the professor of the practice of physic. The opportunities to acquire surgical knowledge are very ample, both in the practical and operative branches. The extensive medical library of the Hospital will also furnish the student with many

important resources, as well with regard to the value of the works it contains, as the facility of consulting them.

In the Anatomical department no exertions will be wanting to provide the most ample means of instruction; the professor of anatomy devoting nearly the whole of his time to the duties of his station.

The cabinets of Natural History and Mineralogy, belonging to the professors of those branches, are already very extensive, and used for demonstration in their lectures. In these collections, which are almost daily increasing, the geological constitution and fossil resources of the United States are particularly displayed.

The course of Chemistry will embrace a particular account of all the new and important discoveries in that interesting department of knowledge, together with an exhibition of the experiments necessary to illustrate them, as well as the fundamental principles of the science.

The several courses of Lectures will commence regularly on the first Monday in November, for the winter sessions; and on the second Monday in April, for the summer sessions, in every year: the former will continue about four months, the latter about three.

A fee, not exceeding fifteen dollars, will be required from the student for attending each course of lectures, except those on anatomy, which, on account of the extraordinary labour and expense required in that department, will be twenty dollars.

The President of the Medical Society in every county of the state, is invited to designate a Student of Medicine, of fair moral character, of promising talents, and diligent habits, who shall be admitted to attend the Public Lectures in the College free of expense.

Medical honors will be conferred by the University of the State on such students as give satisfactory testimony of their proficiency in the several branches of education connected with the healing art.

The Professors appointed by the Regents are, at present, NICHOLAS ROMAYNE, M. D. President, and Professor of the Institutes of Medicine.

SAMUEL L. MITCHILL, M. D. Vice-President, and Profes sor of Natural History and Botany.

EDWARD MILLER, M. D. Professor of the Practice of Medicine, and Lecturer on Clinical Medicine.

ARCHIBALD BRUCE, M. D. Professor of Materia Medica and Mineralogy.

BENJAMIN DE WITT, M. D. Professor of Chemistry.

WILLIAM J. M'NEVEN, M. D. Professor of Obstetrics, and Lecturer on the Diseases of Women and Children. J. AUGUSTINE SMITH, Professor of Anatomy and Surgery. Published by order of the College.

NICHOLAS ROMAYNE, M. D. President.

Health of the City of New-York.

Some alarm and apprehension has been excited in New-York this season on account of the prevalence of a malignant fever at Brooklyn, a village on the Long-Island shore opposite the city. A number of cases have occurred there exhibiting strong appearances of yellow fever, and the disease has proved uncommonly mortal to those who were attacked by it. Several persons having resided in that village, or having had intercourse with it, have been taken ill in this city and died. The cases that have come under our own observation exhibited marked symptoms of uncommon malignity; but we know of no instance where the disease appears to have been communicated to any person within this city; nor have we heard of a single well authenticated case of malignant fever originating here. By the removal of many of the inhabitants from Brooklyn the disease there has been in great measure checked; and by the interdiction of the communication between that place and this city, all apprehension has ceased. The weather indeed has been so uncommonly cool and pleasant for some time past, that

there is no reason to expect a visitation of the fever this year. Various opinions are entertained, as usual, amongst the Physicians of this city, with respect to the origin of the disease at Brooklyn; some ascribing it to indigenous sources, and others to importation. The great weight of professional opinion, however, is in favour of its local origin. We shall endeavour to collect the facts as they have occurred, and give them to the public in our next number.

New Edition of Sydenham's Works, and of Cleghorn's Minorca.

The medical public, we are confident, will be much gratified to learn that Dr. Rush is putting to press an edition of Sydenham, with Notes, and likewise of Cleghorn's Diseases of Minorca. By this means these inestimable works will be accommodated to the climate, and diseases of the United States. Dr. Rush will prefix to Cleghorn's Minorca, a short account of his life.

Death of Professor Woodhouse.

Died on Sunday afternoon, June 4th, 1809, in the 39th year of his age, Dr. JAMES WOODHOUSE, late Professor of Chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania.

Testimony of respect to the late Professor Woodhouse.

At a full meeting of the Medical Class of the University of Pennsylvania, held at Philadelphia June 7th, 1809, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted.

1st. Resolved, That in testimony of the high respect and affectionate attachment which we entertain for the late Professor Woodhouse, that each of us will wear crape on the arm for the space of one month.

2d. Resolved, That Professor Barton be requested to prepare an eulogium on the late Professor Woodhouse, to be pronounced before the Medical Class at their meeting next

season.

Vacant Professorship of Chemistry filled.

At a meeting of the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, on Monday, July 10, 1809, JOHN REDMAN Coxe, M. D. was appointed Professor of Chemistry in that University, in place of Dr. James Woodhouse, lately deceased.

Salt Spring.

A valuable salt spring has been discovered at Butler, in the State of Pennsylvania, in the bed of Connequenessing creek. On erecting a dam round it, it rose two feet above the level of the water in the creek in six hours. It is said to yield two and a half per cent. and to be apparently inexhaustible. Furnaces have been erected, and from the abundance of stone coal in its vicinity, the working of the spring has been found profitable.

Smith's Edition of Bell's Principles of Surgery.

This work, of which the prospectus will be found in our last number, is now in the press, and will be published in the course of the autumn.

FOREIGN.

Accounts of additional Experiments concerning the Metallic Nature of the Alkalies and Earths.

From the London Monthly Magazine for May and June, 1809. Having in our last given an account of Mr. Davy's discoveries with regard to potash, we shall proceed, as we proposed, to consider the properties and nature of the basis of soda. The basis or metallic substance obtained by decomposition, is a solid at the common temperature. It is white, opaque, and if examined under a film of naphtha, has the lustre and general ap