An inaugural address, delivered in the theatre of the Queen's College, Birmingham, on Tuesday, October 2, 1849 / by Horace Faithfull Gray.

  • Gray, Horace Faithfull.
Date:
1849
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Credit: An inaugural address, delivered in the theatre of the Queen's College, Birmingham, on Tuesday, October 2, 1849 / by Horace Faithfull Gray. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    them on to the Senior department, in which during the latter years of their articles they will devote themselves more exclusively to specific preparation for their future life. It can scarcely be repeated too often, that this arrangement is enhanced in value by a collegiate discipline not puerile as in an elementary school, but yet suffi- ciently coercive to check youthful indiscretion and encourage virtue and religious sentiments. Whatever learning extrinsical to that which is strictly professional is either required of, or valued by, the medical student, may here be acquired by him. And, surely, considering the position which he may occupy in society, the situations in which he may be placed demanding not merely professional skill, but moral fortitude and intellectual resource of the highest kind, the many places in the service of the State open to one who unites with medical science adequate general accomplishments, no knowledge or infor- mation can well be deemed superfluous by one who is in course of preparation for the medical profession. A word may be added on the great advantage of proceeding to degrees in medicine which are open from this College. After passing in the London University the matriculation examination which is the same for all candidates, two years must elapse before the first medical examination