Remarks on Dr Hope's "Summary," presented to the patrons of the University.

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[1833]
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Credit: Remarks on Dr Hope's "Summary," presented to the patrons of the University. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    A few remarks are required on Hope’s Summary. 1. Dr Hope hints that a Practical Course is not of sufficient magnitude and importance, and endeavours to con- vey the impression that there is no great difference between it and his Course. 2. Dr Hope states that he has fur- nished, for many years, opportunities of complete practical instruction to the student—Summary, p. 6. 3. Dr Hope says, that Practical Che- mistry is a province of his Chair.. Summary, pp. 4, 5. some of the other statements in Dr 1. The Practical Course is widely different from Dr Hope’s, and includes much that is not taught in his Course, especially some of the higher branches of Chemistry, and a special adaptation to the wants of those students attend- ing it.—Iteply to the Senatus, p. 10-16. 2. Dr Hope did not furnish these opportunities to the Students. It was no part of the duties of the assistants to teach Practical Chemistry for Dr Hope The assistants taught it as a private class, at their own risk, on their own responsibility, with their own ap- paratus, and were excluded from using any thing belonging to the University. 3. Nothing can be called a province of Dr Hope’s Chair that he was not appointed to teach, and that he never did teach, and with which he has never had any connexion, except from a cir- cumstance of the most accidental na- ture. Dr Hope’s Class has in reality no more connexion with the Practical Class, than the Professorship of the Theory of Medicine with the Profes- sorship of the Practice of Medicine,— the Professorship of Surgery with the Professorship of Clinical Surgery, or the Professorship of the Law of Scot- land with the Professorship of Convey- ancing. Again, the Itoyal Commissioners ne- ver once speak of it as a province of Dr Hope’s Course, and propose that it should be taught by another person appointed by the Senatus. Lastly, four of the Medical and Sur- gical Professors, in the year 1829, in their evidence before the Commis- sioners, propose the Practical Course to be given under the superintendence of the Professor of Chemistry, or Ma- teria Medica, evidently shewing that they did not consider that Dr Hope had any right to it. These Professors were, the late Dr Duncax, Dr B