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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    body once in the year, for the purpose of anatomical and surgical demonstrations. Though the University was founded by James VI. in 1582, the teaching of Anatomy and Surgery remained in the exclusive possession of the Incorporation of Surgeons till the year 1720, when the Incorporation, on the resigna¬ tion of Alexander Drummond and John Macgill, their joint Professors of Anatomy, unanimously agreed to re¬ commend to the Provost and Town-Council, Dr Alexan¬ der Monro, one of their members, to be Professor of Ana¬ tomy within the city. In consequence of that recommendation, Dr Monro was appointed Professor by the Magistrates and Town- Council, and he delivered his Lectures upon Anatomy in the Theatre belonging to the Incorporation of Surgeons till the year 1725, when he was first received into the University. On the establishment of the Royal Infirmary in 1729? Dr Monro was appointed one of the Surgeons to that In¬ stitution, and he continued to discharge the duties of this office with the greatest ability for a number of years, as well as to practise Surgery in private, down to the year 1756, when he received an honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University, and was admitted into the Royal College of Physicians. On this occasion he addressed a letter to the Deacon of the Incorporation of Surgeons, re¬ questing, “ as he had engaged lately in a business which was