Distinction without separation : in a letter to the president of the College of Surgeons, on the present state of the profession / Joseph Henry Green.

  • Green Joseph Henry, 1791-1863.
Date:
1831
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    conveyed as to the mode of conducting tlie duties of a medical officer both in garrison and in the held. 3. I think the method in which the course is conducted most judicious, and to embrace every topic of practical utility con- nected with the medical department of the public service. The occasional visits made during the course by tlie Professor and his pupils to the regimental hospitals in the castle, accom- panied by the regimental surgeons, are, in my opinion, of pe- culiar advantage, by making them in a great degree acquaint- ed with the economy and government of military hospitals, and perhaps a more minute attention to this department of the course might be beneficial. The weekly examinations I par- ticularly approve of, and think them a most essential improve- ment in medical education, as making a lasting impression on the student, and felt much gratification with the manner iu which they were conducted by Sir George Ballingall. D. Boyd, Surgeon, Hon. Kast India Companifs Service. Edinburgh, I6lh Feb. 1834. The same Queries were submitted to George Baillie, Esq., Surgeon in the Honourable East India Companifs Service, and unsu'ered as follows: J. I am acquainted with the nature and objects of the course of Lectures annually delivered in the University of Edinburgh on Military Surgery, having attended the Lectures of Sir George Ballingall in 1832-33, and also examined the Outlines of his Course of Lectures, recently published in a thick octavo volume. 2. The utility of a course of lectures of tlus nature appears to me quite incontrovertible, and that a student who has at- tended these Lectures on Military Hygiene, Military Surgery and Medicine, would be prepared to avail himself more rea- dily of the practical advantages to be derived from experience in the treatment of various disorders, and consequently be .sooner qualified to acquit himself in a creditable and efficient manner of the medical charge of a body of men, than if he had not received such instructions. 3. The plan of Sir George Ballingall's course seems to mc peculiarly adapted to the object in view, viz. the instruction of students in the duties of medical officers for the public ser- vice—a matter but little adverted to in ordinary courses of Lectures on the practice of medicine and surgery in my day-