Memorial for Dr. Hamilton, Professor of Midwifery in the College of Edinburgh, respectfully submitted to the ... Lord Provost, Magistrates and Town Council of Edinburgh ... / [James Hamilton].

  • Hamilton, James, 1767-1839.
Date:
[1824]
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Credit: Memorial for Dr. Hamilton, Professor of Midwifery in the College of Edinburgh, respectfully submitted to the ... Lord Provost, Magistrates and Town Council of Edinburgh ... / [James Hamilton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Honourable the Patrons, as trustees for the public good, has always been what reason and common sense dictate, that those who practise as Physicians should have every opportunity of receiving, in their College of Edinburgh, all the information necessary to enable them to exercise their profession to the benefit of their fellow-creatures, and with credit to themselves. Lei V Thirdly,—That no man can now practise Physic with safety to the public, without a knowledge of the Diseases of Women and Children, and that none of the Members of the Medical Faculty, as presently constituted, do teach that knowledge. Fourthly,—Because both that Faculty and the Senatus Academicus have refused to give the public the advantage of having such know¬ ledge communicated to the Graduates of Edinburgh, who are, it is to be remarked, solemnly entitled by the said College to practise the Healing Art throughout the whole world—ubique terrarum—being the phrase employed in conferring the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Lastly,—Because the duties of the Professor of Midwifery are as arduous, and his services are as useful, as those of the Professors who call themselves the Medical Faculty. And it would be inconsistent with the liberality and sense of justice of the Honourable the Patrons, if they did not put him on a footing of equality with those Professors, by constituting and appointing him Professor of Medicine.