Letters from the Governors and Medical Faculty of Anderson's College Medical School relative to the application of Samson Gemmell, M.D.

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[1900]
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Credit: Letters from the Governors and Medical Faculty of Anderson's College Medical School relative to the application of Samson Gemmell, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO THE MEMBERS OF THE GLASGOW UNIVERSITY COURT. My Lord Rector, Mr. Principal, and Gentlemen, In view of the vacancy in the Chair of Clinical Medicine, I beg leave to offer myself as a candidate for the appointment. I am 59 years of age. In 1867 I graduated “with honours” in Medicine in the University of Glasgow, and last year the University conferred on me the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. I was admitted a F'ellow of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1871 ; I have held the office of Honorary Librarian in that body for 24 years, and since November last have also occupied the position of Visitor of the Faculty, an office which corresponds to that of Vice-President in similar institutions elsewhere. From the period of my entering the Medical Profession 1 have been engaged almost continuously in hospital work, and since 1871 in clinical teaching. At first, I worked in the Clinical Hospital, Manchester; from 1871 to 1874 I assisted Sir William Gairdner in his Clinique at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary; and since February, 1875, I have been a Physician to the Glasgow Western Infirmary, and, as a recognised lecturer on the subject, have taught Clinical Medicine there ever since. H aving held the office of Physician to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children from its opening in 1883 till my resignation in November, 1898, I had, in that institution also, a certain amount of clinical teaching. On resigning, I was elected Consulting Physician. The subject of the vacant Chair being Medicine as taught at the bedside it may be relevant to mention that soon after my appointment to the Glasgow Western Infirmary I published a Clinical Mamial for the Study of Medical Cases; the first edition appeared in London in 1878, the second in 1886, and the third in 1891. Two large editions of this work have also been published in the United States. 1 have reason to know that it has been extensively used in the medical schools of this country, in the United States, and in the Colonies. W hen the Cyclopcedia of the Diseases of Children, in four large octavo volumes, was projected in America, I was requested to write the chapter on “Diagnosis,” which appeared in 1889.