Lectures. 3 73 



Practical Electricity and Galvanism ; being a translation of 

 the greater part of the instrument experiments contained in 

 a treatise published bv him during his residence in Holland, 

 with the addition of all such as have since been invented by 

 himself and others; together with an appendix, containing 

 the most interesting experiments on Galvanism. 



On Tuesday, the 2d of September, the Knippenbuhl Rock, 

 which formed the summit of Mount Rosenberg, in the can- 

 ton of S i vitz in Switzerland, was suddenly detached, along 

 with a great portion of the mountain. This tremenr >us 

 bodv rolled down into the valley, which separates the Lake 

 of Zug from that of Lauwertz, overwhelming four whole 

 villages, and destroying part of several others. Upwards of 

 LOG persons were kilied hy this disaster, and only thirty re- 

 m a in alive out of the whole population of the district where 

 it happened. 



Lectures. 



Mr. Home's Lectures on the principal Operations of 

 Surgery, given gratuitously to the pupils of St. George's 

 Hospital, will commence in October next as usual. 



Mr. Gunning will likewise give Lectures on the Lues 

 Venerea. - 



Mr. Gunning, surgeon extraordinary to his royal high- 

 ness the duke of Sussex, and surgeon to St. George's Hos- 

 pital, will commence his Lectures on the Principles and 

 Opuations of Surgery on Monday the 13th of October next, 

 at his house, No. 43, Conduit-street, Hanover-square. 



Private pupils may be accommodated in Mr. Gunning's 

 house. . 



Mr. John Taunton, member of the Royal College of Sur- 

 geons in London, surgeon to the City and Finsbury Dispen- 

 faant 5, &C, will commence his Autumnal Course of Lectures 

 on Saturday the 4th of October, 1806, at eight o'clock in 

 the evening, precisely, at No. 21, Greville-street, Elation 

 Gard( n, to be continued every Tuesday, Thursday, and Sa- 

 turday, at the same hour. 



In 'In- Course of Lectures ilx- structure and functions of 

 the I ! dy will be explained ] the situation and eon* 



nection oi the different Organs will he demonstrated; and 



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