Additional hints respecting the improvement of the system of medical instruction followed in the University of Edinburgh : humbly submitted to the consideration of the patrons and professors of that institution / [by John Thomson].

  • Thomson, John, 1765-1846.
Date:
1826
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Credit: Additional hints respecting the improvement of the system of medical instruction followed in the University of Edinburgh : humbly submitted to the consideration of the patrons and professors of that institution / [by John Thomson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    u That Anatomy and Surgery are closely united is not denied, and much praise is due, both to the late Professor Monro and the present Professor, for the ability and atten¬ tion with which they have taught Anatomy, and the views they have given of the principles of Surgery ; but we must be permitted to affirm, that the improvement of Chirurgi- cal Education in this city is owing to the Institution of the Royal Infirmary, where all the operations of Surgery are executed in sight of the Students, by the Members of the Incorporation of Surgeons, independent of the Professor of Anatomy. But a capacity of operating makes but a small branch of the Profession of a Surgeon ; the skilful treat¬ ment of the various chirurgical maladies, so as to render operations unnecessary, forms a more ample and extensive field ; and to give a complete course of Surgery would re¬ quire more time than the present Professor of Anatomy employs in both branches together.'' The College conceiving, from certain expressions of the Lord Provost, that his Lordship and the Town-Council had not fully understood their meaning in the Memorial and Pe¬ tition which had been delivered to the Council by their Dea¬ con, authorised the Deacon and his Council to draw up an¬ other Memorial, setting forth the claims of the College, and the reasons why, in their judgment, the Professor of Sur¬ gery should not only belong to their body, but should be also a practical Surgeon.