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kEDtCAl AND SURGICAL ttCtVR^S. 



Utility of the 

 Sail oatgrass. 



It is particularly adapted to horses; but all animals, that 

 are commonly fed with hay, eat it with pleasure* 



Opinions have been so divided respecting this plant, that 

 several writers have been eager to boast its advantages, while 

 others have endeavoured to depreciate it. This difference 

 of opinion respecting a plant of real utility has arisen from. 

 the authors who have mentioned it omitting its botanic name: 

 hence some have confounded with it the ray grass, lolium 

 perenne', others with the way h^nnat, hordeum murule, which 

 has no relation to it, and is one of the very numerous plants 

 iujurions to meadows. 



I repeat, that the avena elafior is the best basis of a na- 

 tural meadow ; and that, when cultivated alone, it makes 

 an excellent pasture. It is one of the best of the family 

 of grasses, as any one may readily be convinced by obser- 

 vation. It may be known any where by its slender stalk, 

 rising above the other grasses, and terminating in panicles a 

 little drooping. 



SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



Mediral and 

 suigical lec- 

 tures.- 



^ St. Thomas's and Guys' Hospitals. 

 The Winter Course of Lectures, at these adjoining Hos- 

 pitals will commence as usual on the 1st of October, viz. 



At St. Thomas's. 

 Anatomy and the operations of surgery, by Mr. A. 

 Cooper, and Mr. Henry Cline. Principles and practice of 

 surgery, by Mr. A. Cooper. 



At Gxiy\^. 



Practice of medicine, by Dr. Babnigton and Dr. Curry, 

 Chemistry, by Dr. Babington, Dr. Marcet, and Mr. Allen. 

 Experimental philosophy, by Mr. Alltn. Theory of medi- 

 cine, and materia medica, by Dr. Curry and Dr. Cholmeley. 

 Midwifery and diseases of women and children, by Dr. 

 Haic>hto:i. Physiology, or laws of the animal oeconomy, 

 by Dr. H^ighton. Structure and diseases of the teeth, 

 by Mr. Fox. 



!N. B. These several lectures are so arranged, that no 

 two of them interfere in the hours of aitendance; and, with 

 the lectures on anatomy, and those on the principles and 

 practice of surgery, given at the Theatre of St. Thomas's 

 Hospital adjoining, the whole is calculated to form a com- 

 plete course of medical and chirurgical instructions. 



