Truth, pathology, and the public : address to the graduates in medicine at the close of the summer session, University of Glasgow, Thursday, July 29, 1880 / by John Cleland, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Anatomy, University of Glasgow.

  • Cleland, John, 1835-1924.
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1880
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Credit: Truth, pathology, and the public : address to the graduates in medicine at the close of the summer session, University of Glasgow, Thursday, July 29, 1880 / by John Cleland, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Anatomy, University of Glasgow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    make it so. But there can be no doubt that Glasgow ought to be the seat of one of the finest, most actively- increasing, and most useful pathological collections in the world ; and when I think of the public spirit of this great city, and the enlightened character of those who hav^e it in their power to bring this about, I cannot doubt that the time will rapidly come when a great and successful effort will be made by the supply of funds, and by proper com- bination, to give to a science so important for the direct interests of the public as pathology is, the support in Glasgow which it ought to enjoy. We require much extension of accommodation in our medical school, so rapidly do the wants of medical teaching develop ; and a special representation of pathology on our staff is greatly to be desired, as well as an united medical museum, to which not only students may have liberal admission for purposes of study, but medical men may resort from all parts, both for their own immediate benefit and also to help them in work by which they may enlighten others. In the path of a progress of which we can have no fear as to whither it will lead we must not halt; and it is with pleasure, therefore, that I take this opportunity of attracting attention to an important advantage added this spring to our medical school by the appointment of the able medical superintendent of the Royal Asylum of Gartnavel as University Lecturer on Insanity. I trust that when another year comes round our senior students will mark their appreciation of the important privilege
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