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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    14 Woodside Crescent, Glasgow, March yth, 1905. TO THE GOVERNORS OF ANDERSON’S COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL. Gentlemen, I beg to offer myself as a candidate for the Chair of Practice of Medicine in Anderson’s College Medical School. I graduated B.A. (Honours) in the Science Tripos at Cambridge in the summer of 1891, and in October of that year returned to Glasgow, and completed my medical education at the University, Anderson’s College, and the Western Infirmary. I graduated M.B., B.C., Cantab., in 1895, and M.D. in 1902. I was elected a Fellow of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons in 1898, and became D.Sc., Glasgow, in 1904. After graduation, I filled resident posts in the Western Infirmary (1895-96), Royal Hospital for Sick Children (1896), and City of Glasgow Fever Hospitals (1897-98), and in 1900 served in South Africa as Physician to the Scottish National Red Cross Hospital (mentioned in despatches). I have been a member of the staffs of the Royal Hospital for Sick Children and the Western Infirmary since 1899. For the last six years I have acted as one of Professor Gemmell’s clinical assistants, and as such have been