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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    Gentlemen, In the summer of 1824, I had the honour to submit to your consideration some hints respecting the improve¬ ment of the literary and scientific education of candi¬ dates for the degree of Doctor of Medicine in the Uni¬ versity of Edinburgh ; and I now again most respectfully beg leave to call your attention to what I, in common, I believe, with the greater part of the Medical Profession, regard as two great defects in the present system of medi¬ cal instruction followed in that Institution; I allude to the arrangements which at present subsist for the teaching of Surgery and Clinical Medicine. That Surgery is a branch of Medicine of equal import¬ ance and extent with Physic, and that it can be taught with advantage by those only who have themselves been employed as Practical Surgeons, are propositions which I conceive will not be contested by any one acquainted with the present state of Surgery ; yet these two obvious truths have been entirely lost sight of in the provisions made for having the Principles and Practice of Surgery taught in