Charlotte Street School of Medicine

Printed prospectus on the Charlotte Street School of Medicine. The lectures offered, with names of different lecturers, timings and prices, are given for lectures in anatomy, surgery, midwifery, materia medica, chemistry and botany. Details are included also of the arrangements for boarding 'house pupils', while a full page signed autograph letter by Dermott is penned on an initial page, offering information to an unnamed enquirer.

1844

1 bifolium

Purchased from Samuel Gedge Ltd, May 2016

George Darby Dermott (1801-1847) was a student of the anatomist Joshua Brookes, who opened his private medical school, the Charlotte S|treet School of Medicine, in his own home, 15 Charlotte Street Bloomsbury, in the late1820s. Dermott was an aggressive radical, determined to undercut the fees charged by the Royal College of Surgeons for medical training in favour of students of slender means. By 1832 seventeen private schools were recognised by the inspector of anatomy. Most had closed by 1844 and Dermott's did not long survive publication of this prospectus (see Adrian Desmond, The Politics of Evolution: morphology, medicine and reform in radical London (Chicago, 1989), passim; http://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-project/institutions/charlotte_street_school.htm)