The retrospective address, upon medical science and literature, delivered at the fourth anniversary meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association held at Manchester, July 21st, 1836 / by John Green Crosse.

  • Cross, John, 1790-1850.
Date:
1836
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Credit: The retrospective address, upon medical science and literature, delivered at the fourth anniversary meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association held at Manchester, July 21st, 1836 / by John Green Crosse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of utility—ill its locality, its population, ils wealth, its public charities for the sick, avid last, though far from least, in that spirit of enterprize and philoso- ])hical enquiry which the names of White, Percival, Ballon, Heniy, will picture to the minds of my hearers above any lengthened description. Once set in movement. Provincial Schools find no aid for their advancement so g-reat as that arising out of their usefulness: whatever need there may be for the sanction of the Legislature, they must be upheld by the advantages accruing to the public, and the necessity felt for their continuance. The extension of Royal patronage to Provincial Schools of Medicine is but a presage of those future changes, by which they will become placed on the same footing as the Metropolitan ; and if none of us should live to see, in this favoured locality, and under the rapid increase of population throughout the empire, a College founded,* with all the means of instruction in arts and sciences generally, as well as in medicine, it will be a proof that the Legisla- ture, in the multiplicity of its duties, fails to give its support to the Provinces, and fosters the highest branches of education chiefly in the Metropolis. * Since this A.dclress was delivered, I have, by Dr. Holme's kind- ness, become acquainted with the Flan of a University for the Town of Manchester, bij H. Z,. Jones, M.A. March, 1S36. If, through the liberality and public spirit of individuals, such an Institution were set on foot, embracing within its arrangements the present Medical School of M;inchester, might it not assume tlie same pusition as University and King's Colleges in London, and, with the progress it seems reasonable to hope for under such favourable circumstances, attract, ultimately, the same attention and support of the Legislature.'' A company of individuals must take the first steps in such an under- taking; the Legislature afterwards gives it permanency and effect.