Testimonials in favour of John M. Cowan, B.A., M.D. Cantab., D.Sc. Glasgow.

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[1905]
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Credit: Testimonials in favour of John M. Cowan, B.A., M.D. Cantab., D.Sc. Glasgow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IO From JAMES Finlayson, M.D., LL.D., Physician to the Western Infirmary, Consulting Physician to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, and to the Hospital for Diseases of the Ear; Late President of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons. 2 Woodside Place, Charing Cross, March 4///, 1905. Dr. John M. Cowan’s application for the vacant chair of Medicine in Anderson’s College is entitled to, and will no doubt receive, very serious consideration. (1) He has qualified himself for such a post by varied hospital experience, as a resident in the Western Infirmary, the Children’s Hospital, Belvidere Fever Hospital, and the Scottish Hospital in South Africa during the war. (2) Since then he has worked assiduously at pathological inquiries, which are so important as a basis for practical medicine ; and his published investigations, particularly regarding the heart, are justly recognised as important. (3) As a teacher in the Western Medical School, and in the out-patient cliniques of the Western Infirmary, he is recognised as highly successful and most painstaking. It is obviously important for Anderson’s College to have their teachers connected with the Western Infirmary, where University students work, as in this way there is hope for the future development—already notably begun—of Anderson’s College as a true “ Extra-mural ” school,—that is, a school where University students may take part of their qualifying courses for graduation at the University here. I feel certain that Dr. Cowan, who served for a time under me at the Children’s Hospital, has the requisite natural ability, and has taken very ample pains to qualify himself for such a chair, and that he has already given proofs of his success as a teacher, which this new position may be expected to extend. JAMES FINLAYSON.