in Professor Virchow's Museum.-University Hydropathic Institute.-Invalid Kitchens. A S1UMBER of the more distinguished among the medical professors in the Berlin University have determined on holding special gratuitous courses for the benefit of general practitioners, to enable them to keep abreast of the advances in modern therapeutics, materia medica, and surgery. The lectures are to be combined with clinical demonstrations. They are to be held once a week in the various Berlin hospitals, and

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... each course is calculated to last about two or three months. The Committee consists of Professors von Bergmann, B. Fraenkel, Renvers, and Dr. Robert Kuittner, and the first courses are to be: Nervous diseases (Eulenburg), diseases of children (Finkelstein), otology (Jansen), skin diseases (Joseph), obstetrics (Koblank), urinary diseases (Kutner), throat and ear diseases (Meyer), internal medicine (Renvers), Surgery (Rotter), eye diseases (Silex), hygiene and bacteriology (v. Wasielewski). --There are at present more than I,ooo female students at German universities. Last winter the number was 664, while this winter it has reached I,029. Berlin heads the list with 439 lady students, Bonn counts ioo, Leipzig 79, Halle 76, Breslau 67, Freiburg (in Baden) 38, Gottingen 37, Munchen 3I, Wurzburg 2g, Koenigsberg 24, Giessen and Heidelberg eaeh 23, Kiel I9, Strassburg i6, Greifswald I3, Marburg 6, Tuibingen 4, Rostock 3, and Erlangen 2. The thin end of the wedge is in-so much is clear.