ON  VERATRUM  VIRIPE. 
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By  this  report  you  will  see  that  the  Prussian  Pharmaceutical 
students  are  not  required  to  be  matriculated,  the  propriety  of 
which  has  been  questioned  by  Professors  in  the  German  Uni- 
versities. 
From  the  above  statements  the  following  facts  can  be  pro- 
duced : 
Entire 
Medical  and 
Pharma- 
Number. 
pharmaceutical . 
ceutical. 
1st.  The  entire  number  of  matriculated 
students  ..... 
12,039 
Number  of  Medical  .... 
2200 
"        of  Pharmaceutical 
187 
187 
2d.  Number  of  not  matriculated 
965 
"    not  matriculated  Pharmaceutists 
138 
138 
Amount 
13,004 
2525  325 
From  the  Austrian  Universities  no  report  has  reached  us 
this  fall,  for  the  summer  term  ;  below,  however,  we  give  the 
report  for  the  last  winter  term  of  1851-52. 
Universities. 
Entire  number  of 
matriculated  Stu- 
dents. 
Matriculated  me- 
dical,surgical  and 
pharmaceutical. 
Not  matri- 
culated. 
Vienna  .... 
Prague   
Amount 
2178 
1324 
1196 
339 
791 
213 
3502 
1535 
1004 
By  this  you  will  perceive  that  the  Medical  Faculties  contain 
a  large  proportion  of  the  matriculated  students — namely  as 
1  :  2.  28. 
ON  VERATRUM  VIRIDE. 
By  the  Editor. 
Within  the  last  three  years,  numerous  articles  have  appeared  in 
some  of  the  Medical  Journals,  attributing  remarkable  therapeutic 
powers  to  the  Veratrum  viride,  or  green  hellebore,  of  this  country  > 
most  of  them  written  by  Dr.  W.  C.  Norwood  of  Cokesbury,  South 
Carolina,  and  published  in  the  Southern  Med.  and  Surg.  Journal. 
Dr.  Norwood  claims  to  have. developed  the  therapeutic  properties 
