-(70 Blind and Duml. — Analomy of the Brain. 



COMMUNICATION ESTABLISHED BETWEEN THE BLIND AND 

 DUMB. 



Dr. Guiilie, Director of tha Royal Blind Institution at Paris, 

 has been enabled, by an infallible method of his own invention, 

 to establish an immediate and perfect mode of intercourse be- 

 tween the blind and the deaf and dumb. These two species of 

 unfortunate individuals, betwixt whom Nature appeared to have 

 placed insuperable barriers, may henceforward, thanks to the au- 

 thor of this invaluable discovery, dra:v near to perfectly under- 

 stand each other. 



The first trial of this ingenious practice was made before a 

 numerous public meeting held at Paris the 26th of August last. 

 A sentence was there dictated to one of the deaf and dumb, 

 named Massaca, a pupil of the Abbe Sicard, and by him com- 

 municated to one of the blind, who immediately repeated it in a 

 loud voice. lie, in his turn, communicated to Massaca the sen- 

 tence dictated by the meeting, who instantly wrote it down on a 

 tablet. 



We are assured that Dr. Guiilie intends coming to London in 

 the winter, for the purpose of making an experiment of his 

 practice before the Royal Society. 



ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE BRAIN. 



Dr. Spurzheim has at length finished his second course of lec- 

 tures on the Anatomy and Phvsiologv of the Brain, after hav- 

 ing received the testimony of a numerous and respectable me- 

 dical and amateiu- class of hearers to the preeminence of his 

 mode of dissecting the brain, and treating of its physiology. 

 He is now gone to Bath, by the particular invitation of some 

 medical gentlemen of that citv, to demonstrate the brain there. 

 The doctrine he teaches appears at length to have excited ge- 

 neral interest; and, if ultimately found correct, which we have 

 no reason to doubt, will lead to very important changes in the 

 plan of education. For, by pointing out the peculiar talents of 

 individual children, we shall be decided in our choice of profes- 

 sion for our ofi'tpring. 



LECTURES. 



Medical School, Si. Thomas's aiid Gtiy's Hospitals. — The 

 Spring Course of Lectures at these adjoining Hospitals will com- 

 mence the beginning of February ; viz. 



Ai St. Thomas's — Anatomy and the Operations of Surgery, 

 by Mr. Astloy Cooper and Mr. Henry Cline. — Principles and 

 Practice of Surgery, by Mr. Astley Cooper. 



At Guy's — Prac tice of Medicine, by Dr. Babington and Dr. 

 Curry. — iChemistry, by Dr. Babington, Dr. Marcet, and Mr. 



Allen. 



