On the foundation of scholarships in St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

  • St. Bartholomew's Hospital (London, England). Medical College
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[1845]
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Credit: On the foundation of scholarships in St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    conferring advantages upon the public, as well as upon the meritorious students; and that they will assist to place the successful candidates in a higher rank in their profession, and may thus advantageously affect their course through life. The foundation of scholarships for the best medical students will be advantageous to the public, by encouraging students to greater zeal in the acquirement of knowledge, and, consequently, by increasing the number of highly qualified and scientific practitioners of medicine and surgery. If it be objected that it will not be possible to found scholarships enough to increase the number of excellent practitioners to an amount sufficient to be felt in public good,—it may be answered, that all the candidates for each scholarship, the unsuccessful as well as he who gains it, will be much better practitioners than they would have been had they not been thus incited to increased exertion in their i