Suggestions for the consideration ... of the College Committee, when they make up the Report concerning the medical curriculum of the University, as ordered by the ... town-council, 27th Nov. 1833 / by James Sanders.

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[1833]
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Credit: Suggestions for the consideration ... of the College Committee, when they make up the Report concerning the medical curriculum of the University, as ordered by the ... town-council, 27th Nov. 1833 / by James Sanders. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Let us, in concluding, return to the Royal Infirmary. This should be the fountain of practical information, as yet too little valued, which complaint I have frequently made, and still repeat. But avarice here also overreached its ob- ject. Under plausible pretences the fees were increased, and instead of inducement being held out to young men to ac- custom themselves to the ever-varying aspects of disease in this place, where, from year to year the objects of their so- licitude and instruction were to be found, the door was more than half shut against them, by new regulations with respect to attendance, and new demands upon their scanty funds. Formerly the fee was <£*3 : 3s. the first year, £2:2s. the second year, and .£1 ; Is. the third year, after which ad- mission was free. To this good old regulation the Managers of the Royal Infirmary must recur, if they wish either to improve the establishment committed to their charge, or to assist in renovating the destiny of our School of Medicine. We have dispassionately and impartially discussed the subject of the Curriculum, and proposed such alterations in the present system, as are calculated to obliterate the er- rors of the past, and to ensure prosperity for the future. If the suggestions above given be acted upon, Edinburgh will no longer send forth hypothetical wranglers, but well en- dowed Physicians, the honour of their teachers, the pride of their country, and the benefactors of mankind.