Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1831-01-13

| ~ ONrAERi HOSPITAL and MEDICAL. CYas,,
lV4 cal and Scientific Instttution.-The subscribe,
having recently purchased Of Mr.. Edward A. Lynch
his estates on the Appomatox, in the county of Ches
terhed. (Cobbs and Mount Ary,) eight miles below
petersburg, four above Bermuda Hundred and City
Point, and hfteen from Richmond, respectfully no,6
the public that he is in the act OF preparing building
Tor the accommodation Of persons aboring under cho
mic diseases as seroiua epilepsy Sc. SC. and will be
ready alter the 10Th OF January to receive any adji-
opa number OF pa tents. Every facility will be at
forded for administering water aud vapor baths galva-
nism, electricity, the gases, sc
IeTns-In cases not ackno edged homeless the Az
VIII De- no cure, no pay, except for board In conles-
sedIy hopeless cases, the pay will be expected be in
proportion to the relief given.
Board from TO 81 pes week, acco riding 10 the &C
conimoda'on required. The average may be stated at
81 per week Persons able and willing to render an
equivalent for their board in labor, will be allowed to
do go.
In every case of dyspepsia, the subscriber will
engage to forfeit $50, II he fails to effect cure
upon physiological principles as speedily aud as eec
tusiy a. can be done by any empirical remedy what
ever-upon condition. however, that the patient rigdIy
obs .rves the rules prescribed.
Patients must bs well supplied with clothing; as due
warmth aud cleanliness necessary in every curative
process.
Operations connected with midwifery and surgery
will he performed on the poor gratis.
Eight or ten medical students would be taken, il
early application be made, 500 per year pay able
quarterly in advance unless specific bag ain be made
to the contrary. This includes expenses for board
washing, lodging, in'truction In all the sciences
ed with the study OF medicine, use of library mu
scum, &c. Should any be disposed to prosecute, at
the same time, the study Of the guages mathema-
cs any of the sciences unconne cted with m edeine
facilities will be provided-but, in such an event they
will be subjected to additional charge of S25 per
year.
The advantages Of this Institution are FIRST its Ioca-
ton, which is proverbaily healthy while the sur-
rounding coun is remarkably the reverse-Secopdiy
it' proximity to two large and Hourishnx towns which
afford an opportunity of gaining early intelligence of i'm
provements in the science Of medicine and of consult
ing occasionally with many Of the distiD ushed
medical gentlemen of tho present age-ThrdIy, the
absence Of all the usual lures of vice fourhy the
cies il will afford the student OF frequently testing
among the poor his medical knowiedge-and lastly the
multiplied opportunities that will be furnished of prac
ucal demonstrations in anatomy
Should any young gentleman conclude to prosecu
their studies at this institution, they would do we'll
commence as early practicable, the subscriber ex-
poets to perform, in short time, the following impor
tant oper atoms
IN operation on the eye for Pterygium
do do Ectropum.
An amputation.
An operation for the exrp patton Of diseased ovaria-
an operation which but rarely falls to the lot OF a
physician to perform.
Application may be made to the subscriber personal
ly, or thou gh the medium OF the Post Office Peters
burg. JOS. s. BAKER.
Montssri, Jan. /. T-3t