An address delivered at the opening of the section of pathology / by A. Sheridan Selépine, at the annual meeting of the British Medical Association in Carlisle, July, 1896.

  • Delépine, Sheridan, 1855-1921.
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[1896]
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Credit: An address delivered at the opening of the section of pathology / by A. Sheridan Selépine, at the annual meeting of the British Medical Association in Carlisle, July, 1896. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AN ADDRESS DELIVBKBD AT THE OPENING OF THE SECTION OF PATHOLOGY. By a. SHERIDAN DELEPINE, M.B., Procter Professor of Pathology in Owens College, Victoria University. At the Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association in Carlisle, July, 1896. ON THE PLACE OF PATHOLOGY IN MEDICAL EDUCATION. *' THEY DO NOT DEEM IT DISCEEDITABLE TO DESEET ERROR, THOUGH SANCTIONED BY THE HIGHEST ANTIQUITY. — W. Harvey} Gentlemen,—We come once more, at the end of a scientific year, to bring to each otlier some of the fruit of our labours and help one another by friendly discussion. It is my privi- lege to have to welcome you, an honour which I feel too well to attempt to measure it in words. I will take advantage of this opportunity to bring before you a few considerations on some points which seem to me of actual interest to all patho- logists in this country. The tendencies of our system of medical education have for some time given rise to adverse criticism, much of which, I fear, is well founded. Quite lately the General Medical Council has had again under its consideration a motion regarding the need for reform of the medical examination system. ^ Pathology forms such an important part of medical science that any question touching medical education necessarily concerns teachers of pathology, who should do their utmost to make their subject useful and not a stumbling block to the medical student. This is all the more important as pathology has only of late been recognised in our univer- sities or colleges as a subject worthy of a special chair. To quote Professor Hamilton's words :^ It will, I think, be granted that the pathology of to-day is not delimit- able merely as a matter of pure morbid anatomy, patho- logical histology, pathological physiology, pathological chemistry, or clinical medicine, but that these are simply the members of a great body, and that they are indissolubly bound together. 1 hoc. cit. (see end of paper). Bettish Medical Journal, i8q6, vol. i, pp. 1370 and 1397. » A Textbook ojPathology, V0I..1, p. vii, London, 1886.