Continuation of the "Transactions of the KY State Medical Society, 1875." The winter following no lectures were delivered in the institution. The faculty had become disorganized at the close of the first session, and no attempt to form a new faculty was made until 1819. In the fall of that year he became a student of Tranylvania University, having in the mean time pursued his studies two years at home, by which he gained a valuable amount of practical knowledge in his profession. (Here follows the names of some doctors and what courses they taught). Continuing: After following these several courses to their conclusion, and profiting by them beyond most of his fellow students, young MILLER returned to Glasgow, where Dr. BAINBRIDGE offered him a partnership in the practice of physic, his other preceptor, Dr. GIST, having removed to New Castle. He engaged at once in the responsible duties of his profession; but, after eighteen months spent in laborious practice, returned to Lexington, and was graduated M. D. at the conclusion of his second course in the spring of 1822. His thesis was of so scholarly a character, and evinced moreover so much reading and research, that it was deemed by the faculty worthy of publication. The subject was the "Relation between the Sanguiferous and the Nervous Systems." The great merit of his thesis, his superior mind, and his devotion to his studies gave assurance of eminence in his profession, which led the professors, a year later, to elect him demonstrator of anatomy; an in consequence of his appointment he left his practice in Glasgow and repaired to Philadelphia in 1823, spending some months there in the dissecting-room, preparing himself for the duties of his office. The appointment, however, it appeared subsequently, was not agreeable to Prof. Dudley, who, knowing the great difficulty of procuring subjects for dissection, was not disposed to encourage the practical study of anatomy; and in view of these difficulties Dr. Miller resigned his place, and returned to his business in Glasgow. After practicing physic here a few years he removed to Harrodsburg, where, in addition to the population of the town, the springs drew great numbers of people from the South, rendering the practice highly remunerative. He remained nine years in Harrodsburg; but the theater was not equal to his ambition, and in 1835 he removed to the city of Louisville, with a view to becoming a teacher of medicine. A charter for a medical school, under the name of Louisville Medical Institute, had been obtained from the legislature, and Dr. Miller was elected Professor of Obstetrics and the Diseases of Women and Children before removing to the city. The Medical Institute, however, did not at once afford him any employment. Most of its chairs were vacant, and he found the profession and citizens of Louisville indifferent to the establishment of a school of medicine. But he resolved not to give over the enterprise without a struggle, and with a view to exciting public interest in the matter wrote a series of articles setting forth the advantages of such a school to the city. These papers, published in the Louisville Journal, seconded by the efforts of its gifted editor, the late George D. PRENTICE, Esq., had their effect at home, at the same time that they aroused the attention of professors at Lexington to the danger of a rival school in Louisville. To be continued next week. Sandi Sandi's Puzzlers: http://www.gensoup.org/gorinpuzzles/index.php Sandi's site: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/ Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=south-central-kentucky