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Memorial to Sir James GrahamAuthor(s): Henry RobertsonSource: Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal (1844-1852), Vol. 10, No. 13 (Apr. 1, 1846), p.151Published by: BMJStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25499161 .

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QUEEN'S COLLEGE, BIRMINGHAM. 151 NITRATE OF POTASH IN INTERMITTENT FEVER.

M. Briquet has recently published the results of

some trials which he has made of the efficacy of nitrate

of potash in the intermittent fevers of the last year. Guided by some experimental researches from which it

resulted, that the nitrate of potash, when injected into

the veins of animals, produced, on the circulation and

on the whole economy, effects similar to those produced

by cyanhydric acid, arseniate of potass, sulphate of

quinine, cinchonine, and the other febrifuges intro

duced into the blood in like manner, M. Briquet

thought it probable that nitre, which was also found to

exert an influence, in a high degree, on the heart and

on the Peius system, corresponding to that which

experim wad proved to exist in a marked manner

in all felifuge substances, was, in like manner, endowed with antiperiodic properties to a degree suffi cient to arrest the paroxysms of intermittent fevers.

This analogy seemed to be confirmed by the identity of

the symptoms which followed the exhibition of the

sulphate of quinine, and the nitrate of potass, in over

doses. Finally, it had been apparently shewn, by

recent clinical observations, that nitrate of potass, like

sulphate of quinine and cyanhydric acid, was capable of arresting the intermittent attacks of rheumatic arthritis.

Such were the grounds on which M. Briquet was induced to examine the powers of nitrate of potass as

a febrifuge. The following are the results at which lie has arrived:-In three cases the paroxysms completely ceased after the first dose of the medicine. In two cases the paroxysms yielded gradually. In one case

only was there a relapse. The dose of the nitrate employed was from four to

six and eight grammes in the day. In one patient it was gradually carried as high as twenty-four grammes, increasing it from one to two grammes daily. It was

given either in powder in unfermented bread, or dis solved in mucilaginous julep, during the six hours which followed the close of a paroxysm.-Gazette Medical de Paris.

MEMORIAL TO SIR JAMES GRAHAM.

TO THE EDITOR OF TIlE PROVINCIAL MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL.

SIR,

Observing in the last number of your Journal that the signatures attached to the memorial, presented by the Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley, M.P., and Thomas

Wakley, Esq., M.P., to the Right Hon. Sir James

Graham, Bart., were stated to be 850, I beg to inform

you shat they were 1072; and I would also add that the memorial emanated from the " Bristol Association of Surgeons." Trusting you will do the memorialists the favour of correcting the error in your next Journal,

Believe me to remain, Sir,

Your most obedient servant,

HENRY ROBERTSON, M.D.,

Hon. Secretary to the Bristol

Association of Surgeons.

2, Terrel Street, Bristol, March 24, 1816

QUEEN'S COLLEGE, BIRMINGHAM.

The Committee appointed. in August last to consider it proposition for annexing and adapting a course of

preparatory instruction to the present system of the

College, have presented their report to the Council, and, in accordance with the recommendations contained

in the report, the following plans have been submitted to the Council, and on the motion of the venerable and respected Dr. Johnstone, were unanimously carried:

The Council of the Queen's College, Birmingham,

deeply impressed with the importance of improving the preliminary education of students in medicine and

surgery, propose to establish, without delay, a junior

department of their College, in order to afford to

young persons intended for the professions of medicine and surgery, the advantages of receiving, within the walls of the College, early instruction in Latin, Greek, and Mathematics, (with the modern languages, and the

sciences,) from tutors of University education, care

fully selected for their abilities and acquirements. The students to be lodged and boarded with their

tutors, who will have houses provided for them near the College, and who will be responsible, each for the conduct of such young persons as are entrusted to hilm.

No particular age to be fixed for the admission of students, provided they have gone through the

elementary training of a classical school, and can

produce testimonials of their good conduct at such school.

The students in the junior department will be pro moted according to their diligence and acquirements, but it is very desirable that they should be ready for

matriculation, and for receiving indentures of appren ticeship, where required, by the time they have reached the age of sixteen, in order that they may offer them selves as candidates for the degrees of the University of London, the diploma of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and the licence of the Society of Apothecaries, by the time they have attained the

age of twenty-one, after which they may commence practice.

The most important and valuable privilege of receiving indentures without premium is offered to the students

of the Queen's College by William Sands Cox, F.R.S., Dean of the Faculty. The privilege is most important and valuable, for in addition to the pecuniary aid which it affords, it relieves students from the danger of those

vexatious, if not degrading services, to which appren tices have too frequently been found subjected.

The Academical year to be divided into two sessions the Winter Session to commence October the 1st, and, to terminate April the 14th, with a fortnight's vacation, at Christmas; the Summer Session to commence May the 1st, and to terminate July the 31st.

Course of Study.-First year: Classics, mathematics, French, German, drawing.-Second year: Classics,

mathematics, French, German, drawing, dispensing, chemical manipulation.-Third year: Descriptive anatomy, general anatomy, practical anatomy, physi ology, chemistry, materia medica, botany, surgery, hospital practice, with clinical lectures.-Fourtl year: Descriptive anatomy, general anatomy, practical anat

omy, physiology, ehemlstry% material medical, botusy

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