Collegium Medicum Novocastrense : the history of the Medical School, afterwards the Durham College of Medicine at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, for forty years, from 1832 to 1872 / by Dennis Embleton.

  • Embleton, Dennis, 1810-1900.
Date:
1890
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Credit: Collegium Medicum Novocastrense : the history of the Medical School, afterwards the Durham College of Medicine at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, for forty years, from 1832 to 1872 / by Dennis Embleton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the session 18G4-65; one of his intimate iriends and fellow-students, William Thomas Carr, certificate of merit 1854-55, fell a victim to fever caught in Newcastle in the discharge of his arduous and dangerous duties as a medical officer of the Dispensary. Dr. W. C. Arnison* narrowly escaped the same fate. THE DICKINSON MEMORIAL SCHOLAESHIP. The friends of the late John Dickinson, M.B. Dunelm, Medical Officer of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa, desirous of testifying their admiration for his character and their sorrow at his untimely death, subscribed a sum of money (£300), the annual interest of which amounting to £15 is to be awarded annually as The Dickinson Memorial Scholarship. The first examination for this took place on the 27th and 28th of July, 1864, The successful competitor, or first Dickinson Scholar was James Douglas Murray. George Clark, born February 25th, 1838, in Newcastle, was a student in 1855-5G, 1856-57, and 1857-58, passed the Apothecaries' Hall and the College of Surgeons in 1859. He had always had an overpowering desire to go to sea. In 1860, after having creditably passed the examination of the Navy Board at Somerset House, he was commissioned and sent to the Victory at Portsmouth, and thence to Haslar Hospital as assistant- surgeon; thence was ordered to China and appointed by the Admiral at Hong Kong to the Insolent which was then fitting out there. In that ship he served for three years, and was stationed at Chee Foo at the end of the Taeping war; while there a battle occurred between the Chinese Royal army and the Taepings within range of the guns of the Insolent, when the Captain sent some shells flying among the rebels who were routed; the night after Clark got a boat and some men with a lantern, picks and shovels, rowed ashore, and leaving two men with the boat, proceeded with the others to the battlefield, and there discovered the bodies of two European missionaries who had been slain and chopped to pieces. N