A narrative of some late injurious proceedings of the managers of the Royal Infirmary, against the students of medicine in the University of Edinburgh / Published by the Students.

  • University of Edinburgh. Faculty of Medicine
Date:
[1786?]
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Credit: A narrative of some late injurious proceedings of the managers of the Royal Infirmary, against the students of medicine in the University of Edinburgh / Published by the Students. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    They accordingly fummoned a general meeting of the whole body, to be held on Saturday the 19th of Auguft, in which they were gratified with the moft: entire approbation of every meafure that had been taken. At the fame meeting, after a full difcuffion of the whole tranfaftion, the Students of Me¬ dicine in the Univerfity of Edinburgh, UNANIMOUSLY agreed to the following refolutions: 1. Unanimously, That a letter figned, Ro, Bofwell^ received by the Prefident of this meeting, and faid to be written by order of the Managers of the Royal Infirmary, contains an unmerited infult upon the body of Students and their Committee, as well as aflertions injurious to the privileges of the Students of Medicine in this Univerfity. 2. Resolved therefore unanimously. That the Managers having re- fufed to open the reprefentation of the Committee of Students, under pre¬ tence that they knew nothing of any fuch body,” did virtually deny to the Students of Medicine in this Univerfity, that right of deliberating and a£i;ing together,, which they themfelves had, on a former occafion, repeatedly recog- nifed, and which the Students conceive to be the undoiibted right of all per- fons who may have a common interefi. 3. Unanimously, That the Managers having refufed to hear our repre¬ fentation, under pretence that the Students had no right to interfere in their affairs, do evidently confound the peculiar bufinefs of the Infirmary, in which no Student ever pretended to intermeddle, with that part' of it which re¬ lates to the conduft of the Students; as if the reprefentation of the Students could, without the mofi; glaring abfurdity, be confidered more in the light of an interference with their bufinefs, than the complaint of the corporation of Surgeons. 4. Unanimously, That the Managers having thus attempted, both by precluding all intercourfe with the Students, and confequently all complaints in cafe of grievances, to eflablifii a precedent which may countenance future oppreffion, it has become necefiary for the Students publicly to aiTert thofe rights to deliberate together, as well as to addrefs the different bodies with whom their education has conne£led them, which they find fo unjuflly and arrogantly denied.