Medical lectures : the faults with which they are charged and the remedy / by Robert Christison.

Date:
1864
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    I see no evidence, therefore, of a tendency in the regulations of the University of Edinburgh to elon- gate the courses of lectures, hut quite the contrary. They have been gradually abbreviated, to suit the sense or taste of the times; and the University of Edinburgh has been the first to advance further in the same line, in conformity with the sentiments lately expressed in the General Medical Council. The subjects of study, however, have in that Uni- versity, as elsewhere, been materially increased in number. Advancing science rendered subdivision and increase indispensable. The University of Edin- burgh was merely the first school to make that dis- covery. Unto, the beginning of the present century its medical professorships were nine in number,—Che- mistry, Botany, Natural History, Anatomy and Sur- gery in one. Institutes of Medicine, [comprising Phy- siology, General Pathology, and General Therapeu- tics,] Materia Medica, Practice of Physic, Midwifery, and Clinical Medicine. Early in the century were founded chairs of Clinical Surgery, Military Surgery, and Medical Jurisprudence ; and in 1831 were added a separate chair of Surgeiy, and another of General Pathology. The chair of Military Surgery has been abolished. Of the remaining additions it will be diffi-