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the Rhode-Island coal . Owing to the smallness of its draught , it burns this coal in great perfection , keeping up a permanent and intense heat . This
§ tove is surrounded by a brick chamber , from which a brick flue is carried up to the second story , communicating by large pipes on apertures with all the principal rooms of the house . The air is admitted from the outside of the
building through a brick passsage way , down to the stove ; a portion of it goes to maintain the combustion ; the rest being rarified by the heat of the stove , ascends rapidly through the flue , and
may be delivered at pleasure into any , or all the apartments , by opening the pipes or communications . The strong current of heated air thus obtained , is sufficient to warm the largest rooms in a very short space of time .
A cistern of water is placed near the roof , which is supplied by pumps from a well in the cellar , and may be drawn out for use by pipes communicating below . *
Medical Library . The importance of a Medical Library in an institution of this sort , has caused active measures to be taken for an earl y and respectable foundation of this kind . To this end , about five hundred volumes have been already contributed , and suitable provision made for the regular increase of the collection . Attention
has been paid particularly to supply such books as will be most useful to students during their attendance on the lectures ; and with this view , a considerable number of copies of each of
the most approved elementary and standard works on the several departments of medical science , have been furnished . Any present deficiencies will be supplied during the lectures by
* The Lecturer on Midwifery has made arrangements in Florence for procuring wax preparations which shall illustrate his Lectures on Pregnancy and Parturition . —One of the best artists in the Florence School is now making a
preparation to answer the above objects ; and that it may be as perfect as possible , it is to be made under the immediate inspection of one of the officers , —Sig , Professor Casselli . The preparation above allude ^ to , wili be completed in May 1816 .
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the removal front the Boylston Medical Library in Cambridge , of such books as may be most wanted .
Medical Lectures and Degrees . The Medical Lectures in Boston will hereafter commence annually on the third Wednesday in November , and consist of five courses on the following subjects : Anatomy and Surgery ,
Chemistry and Mineralogy , Materia Medica , Midwifery , and the Theory and Practice of Physic . Candidates for the degree of Doctor in Medicine are required to attend two courses of the Lectures of each of the
medical professors . They must study three years before they can be examined , two of which at least must be passed under the direction of a regular practitioner of medicine . Those who
have not had an University education , must satisfy the president and professors of their knowledge in the Latin language and in experimental philosophy .
The examinations commence on the second Wednesday following the close of the Lectures , and are made in all the branches taught in the Lectures . — An inaugural thesis must be publicly read and defended previously to graduation .
Boylston Medical Prize Questions . A provision for one hundred dollars per annum has been made by the liberality of Ward Nicholas Boylston , Esq ., which sum is annually adjudged in two
prizes of 50 dollars each to the authors of the best dissertations on subjects proposed by a committee appointed by the corporation of the University . Since their establishment in 1803 ,
nineteen of the Boylston premiums have been awarded for dissertations to various physicians and medical students .
Count Rumford ' s Legacy . Benjamin Count Rumford , an American by birth , whose talents and researches have given him celebrity throughout Europe , lately deceased at tus
his country residence in France . T distinguished philosopher and political economist , mindful of his native country , has bequeathed , with certain restrictions , the whole of his estate to the University , where he had acquired
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608 Account of Harvard Unlpersity , in Cambridge , Massachusetts .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1820, page 508, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2492/page/8/
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