Introductory address at the public opening of the Medical Session 1869-70, in the University of Glasgow / by John B. Cowan.

  • Cowan, J. B. (John Black), 1829-1896.
Date:
1869
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Credit: Introductory address at the public opening of the Medical Session 1869-70, in the University of Glasgow / by John B. Cowan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Gentlemen, In accordance with the recent practice of this Univer- sity, it is now my duty on the part of the Medical Faculty to address to you a few words on the commencement of another Session. You will, I am sure, join my colleagues and myself in regretting deeply the illness of Professor Anderson which prevents him occupying this place, and deprives us all of the benefit and pleasure of listening to one, whose long experience as a teacher, and whose scientific attainments would have enabled him to speak with great weight and authority. Let us hope that rest for a time from his arduous labours may restore him to health and to the active duties of his Chair. During the past year the University and the Medical Faculty have sustained a heavy loss in the premature death of Dr. George Rainey—another victim of that fatal fever which for years has borne with such severity on the profession in Glasgow. Distinguished as a student, of great promise as a teacher, with scientific tastes and highly cultivated powers, somewhat veiled under a diffident demeanour, Dr. Rainey was one of those to whom all who knew him looked forward as a future strength and ornament of our school. One other change has taken place. Professor Lister, whose address last year many of you must have had the privilege of hearing, has been appointed to the Chair of Clinical Surgery in the University of Edinburgh. It is not often of late years that translations from Glasgow to Edinburgh have occurred, and I am not sure that I envy Mr. Lister his removal from a scene of harmony, monotonous perhaps though it may seem to some minds, yet congenial to amiable dispositions, and favourable to calm study,' to one, in which ere he had fairly entered it, he became, I presume necessarily, involved in one of those professional controversies which