Statement of the qualifications of Robert Harrison, candidate for the Professorship of Anatomy and Surgery in the University of Dublin.

  • Robert Harrison
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1837
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Credit: Statement of the qualifications of Robert Harrison, candidate for the Professorship of Anatomy and Surgery in the University of Dublin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The event has fully justified the choice ; for since Dr. Harrison has been raised to the chair of Anatomy and Physiology, in the College of Surgeons, he has not only, by the cultivation of Comparative Anatomy introduced this branch of the Science to general notice, but he has also facilitated in a material degree, the study of Human Anatomy and Physiology, not merely by his Lectures, but also by some very valuable works—viz., his “Anatomy of the Arteries;” and his Elements,entitled, the “Dub¬ lin Dissector,” now standard works in almost every School of Anatomy in Great Britain and America. As a Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology, Dr. Harrison is eminent, not only for his minute knowledge of the subjects, but still more, for the clearness of his arrangements, and the impres¬ sive language in ahieh he conveys his ideas. As a Practitioner, few men possess more nice discrimination, or more solid judgment in the treatment of diseases, both medi¬ cal and surgical. From the long and intimate intercourse which I have had with him, I can pronounce Dr. Harrison to be a man of most correct, moral conduct, and possessing a mind deeply imbued with sincere religious feelings. A. COLLES. Ordinal marked No. J! PHILIP CRAMPTON, Esq. M.D. F.R.S. Surgeon in Ordinary to the Queen, and Surgeon General to the Forces in Ireland. Merrion-square, July 14th, 1837. I have known Dr. Harrison for several years, as a Teacher of Anatomy, and as a Practitioner of Medicine and Surgery. I have heard him lecture on Human and Comparative Anatomy . and I have seen him operate; I have, besides, read with atten¬ tion, his Work on “the Surgical Anatomy of the Arteries of the Human Body I believe, beyond question, the most com-
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