An address delivered at the Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery / [Vaughan Thomas].

  • Vaughan Thomas
Date:
1838
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Credit: An address delivered at the Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery / [Vaughan Thomas]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a corded their devotion to the cause of improvement in Medical and Surgical education, and who, in the prosecution of their common purpose, have never lost sight of that combination of Christian princi¬ ples with scientific pursuits, which brings blessings Bupon human knowledge, and makes Medical and Surgical studies acceptable to God by their spirit, as well as beneficial to man by their success. If from this general survey I were to turn my attention to some circumstances of a peculiar nature, c I should find fresh reasons for doubting and dis¬ trusting my own competency to do justice to the great cause which has brought us together. I should find them in that disinterested love of ana¬ tomical and physiological science, which (about Dten years ago) determined an accomplished Sur¬ geon® of this his native place to enter upon a new career of fame, and to endeavour to establish in the town of Birmingham, what was so loudly called for by the wants of professional life, and the in- e creased and increasing rigour of the metropolitan examinations ; I mean, a School of Medicine and Surgery, with the necessary accompaniments of a Theatre of Anatomy, a Museum, full Courses of Lectures, and a regular attendance upon the Prac- Ftice of a recognized Hospital. Happily for the 0 William Sands Cox, Esq. F.R.S. R.C.S.
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