The official resignation of the Professorship of Surgery, in University College, London : with observations, addressed to the President and Council / by Samuel Cooper.

  • Cooper, Samuel, 1780-1848.
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[1848]
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Credit: The official resignation of the Professorship of Surgery, in University College, London : with observations, addressed to the President and Council / by Samuel Cooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    for a particular friend of his own, to whom I certainly enter- tained not the slightest personal objection. The other Professor, Mr. Quain, according to his own repeated declara- tions to me and others, had long been impatient to Lecture on Surgery himself, and to give up the Anatomical Chair. A still closer union for mutual purposes was therefore established between these two gentlemen, who succeeded in the first object by a kind of coup-de-main, inasmuch as they contrived, quite unknown to myself, and, I believe, to some other Professors, and without any authority from the Council, Senate, or Faculty of Medicine, to Constitute themselves into a snug little party to decide what Surgeon should be recom- mended to the Senate and Council for the vacant appointment at the Hospital; or, rather, one of the vacant appointments; for, as I have already stated, the vacancy occasioned by Mr. Pottei,’s death, about a year ago, still remains unfilled, in consequence of its not being the pleasure of these two Pro- fessors to allow your printed resolution, that the Hospital shall have two Assistant Surgeons, just at present, to be fulfilled. Forgetful of the many highly qualified gentlemen, educated to Surgery at University College during the last twenty-three years, and careless also of the harsh injustice they were doing to the present Assistant Surgeon, who had served with dis- tinction about seven years, and had often, in the absence of the Surgeons, been entrusted with the entire charge of the Surgical Patients, the two combined Professors very kindly, without any solicitation, undertook the difficult task of inquiring into the qualifications and comparative fitness, of all the most distinguished Surgeons in the United Kingdom for