Medical politics : being the essay to which was awarded the first Carmichael prize, of £200, by the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland, 1873 / by Isaac Ashe.

  • Ashe, Isaac, 1834-1891.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Medical politics : being the essay to which was awarded the first Carmichael prize, of £200, by the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland, 1873 / by Isaac Ashe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Extract from Mr. Carmichael’s Will. u In my will dated 11th of February, 1849, I bequeathed £3,000 to the College of Surgeons in Ireland, the interest arising from which sum is to be disposed of in the following manner: “ Every fourth year after the investment of this sum in the funds of the College, a premium of £200 to be adjudged by the Council of the College for the best essay, and £100 for the second best essay on the following subjects:— “ 1st. The state of the Medical Profession in its different depart- ments of Physic, Surgery, and Pharmacy in Great Britain and Ireland at the time of the writing of these prize essays. “ 2nd. The state of the Hospitals and Schools of Medicine, Surgery, and Pharmacy. w 3rd. The state and mode of examination, or of testing the qualifications of candidates of the different Licensing Colleges or Corporations in Medicine, Surgery, and Pharmacy. u Under these three heads the authors will please to make such suggestions as may occur to them respecting the improvement of the profession, with the view of rendering it more useful to the public, and a more respectable body than it is at present. In these suggestions the authors will please to consider the preliminary and moral education of Medical and Surgical Students, as well as the best mode of conducting their professional studies. u In considering the 3rd head, or mode of testing the qualifica- tions of candidates by the licensing bodies, the authors will please to consider the most practicable mode of rendering the examina- tions as demonstrative as possible, z.e., in anatomy, by having the dead subject placed before the candidate. In chemistry, botany, and pharmacy, specimens of minerals, plants, and pharmaceutical preparations placed before him; and in the practice of physic and surgery, the candidate to be placed before the patients in the wards of an hospital, as the testator is certain that this will afford the most certain and only true mode of ascertaining the qualifica- tions of candidates. “ On handing the sum mentioned of £3,000 to the College, my Trustees will please to have a legal guarantee that the provisions