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NAMES of tlie 

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(Joannes Haller). 

 Joannes Schobser. 

 Conradus Bomgathem. 



Thomas Anselmiis Badensis. 



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D. Pietersoen. 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



SIR, 



I MUST crave room to add to Mr. 

 Luckcock's sensible remarks on 

 the proportions of nutrition in various 

 kinds of food. In reference to the 

 culture of the potato, and in ascer- 

 taining its esculent properties, I have 

 had some experience, especially du- 

 ring the past forty years; and, at this 

 date, have again sown seeds of the 

 apple, with intent to obtain new, and 

 perhaps better, varieties than any yet 

 produced. The best species I ever 

 obtained consisted of twenty-eight* 

 parts per hundred farina in a perfectly 

 dry form, the which is always speci- 

 fically heavier than the finest wlieaten 

 flour, and (as you see) exceeds the 

 proportion given by Messrs. Percy and 

 Vauquelin; and I dare venture to 

 assume that, in nutricious eflect, it 

 greatly exceeds any given measure of 

 the best wheateu floui\ 



In like manner, I assume that 

 such farina is equal in cfl'ect to the 

 farina of the arum-root, so plentifully 

 imported from the islands in the West 

 Indies of late years, and sold in the 

 retail shops from two or three to six 

 shillings per pound ; but I am willing 

 to contend that the extract from the 

 potato is equal to arum, real or pre- 

 tended. 



The nations of the Peninsula are 

 comparatively abstemious in animal 

 food : and, as their rich soil is about to 

 bo polluted by (lie most nefarious 

 aggression, (now for the secimd time, 

 within H very short period,) I trust 

 llioy will instantly begin to plant many 

 thousand tons of the potato, with con- 

 tinuation to the middle of Juno, for 

 general consumption, and, if need re- 



* Tlio seventy two parts rcinaiuiiig con- 

 <(ib(cd of Wilier <uid tibrc. 



quire, for supply of their strong places 

 on the frontiers.* The Irish, Scotch, 

 and English, already amongst them, 

 are as expert as any in the cultiva- 

 tion of the potato.^ 



Nehemiah Bartley. 

 Cathay, Bristol; March 13. 



For the Monthly Magazine. 



LETTERS ON THE 



MEDICAL SCHOOL OV LONDON. 



LETTER I. 



To Frederick (VUliain Muitluml, esq. 

 Trinity College, Ox/uid. 



DEAR SIR, 



WELL, here am I, at last, fairly 

 and safely settled in the Great 

 City ; whither my good, but somewhat 

 eccentric, uncle has thought proper to 

 transport me, to perfect (as he says) 

 that professional education, which a 

 three years' hard grinding at Edin- 

 burgh, and something more than a 

 twelvemonth's residence at Paris, had, 

 in my humble estimation, already ren- 

 dered as complete as was at all neces- 

 sary. But my uncle, whose affection- 

 ate solicitude for his orphan nephew 

 claims at least my unhesitating ac- 

 quiescence, wishes that I should attend 

 the classes here for another year; 

 when I shall, — even in his estimation, 

 — be fully competent to commence my 

 career as a disciple of the divine Escu- 

 lapius. Well ; I shall not be sorry 

 when I have passed the College — the 

 Royal College of Surgeons of course, — 



* Potato-flour I have had in my keep- 

 ing for nearly twenty years, perfectly 

 sound at the last. 



t Tile Tullian method of culture (with 

 wide intervals and single rows,) is prefer- 

 able to any other. Upward of twenty 

 tons per English acre ate fre(iiiently ob- 

 tained by a correct attention to Tull'» 

 method, 



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