Testimonials in favour of Arthur Gamgee, M.D., F.R.S. ... : candidate for the Regius Professorship of Medical Jurisprudence in the University of Glasgow.

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[1872]
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Credit: Testimonials in favour of Arthur Gamgee, M.D., F.R.S. ... : candidate for the Regius Professorship of Medical Jurisprudence in the University of Glasgow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE H. A. BRUCE, M.P., Secretary of State for the Home Department. —♦>— SIR, Understanding that the Chair of Medical Juris- prudence in the University of Glasgow has become vacant by the resignation of Professor Rainy, I beg to offer myself as a Candidate. As I hope, in the course of some days, to have the honour of submitting to your consideration Testimonials from distin- guished men, many of whom have known me throughout my whole career as a student and as a professional man, I shall refrain from making any lengthened statement. I deem it ex- pedient, however, to state the following facts :— I graduated as a Doctor of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh in the year 1862, and on that occasion I was awarded one of the University gold medals for my Inaugural Thesis. In 1863 I became official assistant to Dr. Maclagan, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in the University of Edinburgh, an office which I continued to hold until the year 1869. For a statement of the opportunities which I en- joyed during my tenure of this office for acquiring a practical knowledge of the different departments of Forensic Medicine, and for an account of the work which I then did, I would beg leave to refer you to a letter addressed to you by Professor Douglas Maclagan.