Observations, &c.

Date:
[1825?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Observations, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OBSERVATIONS, &c. Thebe arc few subjects in which the public of Edin- burgh can feel a greater interest than in whatever may relate to the success or improvement of its- University, or of its Medical School, of which the fame lias so long and so materially contributed to the reputation and prosperity of this flourishing and favoured city. At present, the expectations of the public, and particularly of the medical profession, are keenly di- rected to the result of the discussions which have been for some time in progress, with regard to the al- terations proposed to be made in the regulations for the education and examination of candidates for medi- cal degrees. It must be generally well understood, that the superiority in character which the university of Edinburgh, as a medical school, so suddenly ob- tained at an early period of its existence, was in a great measure produced by the members of this body not being trammeled in their measures or opinions, by old privileges, old precedents, or antiquated prejudices; and now that the institution has acquired a longer standing, it is to be hoped that it will not be influen- ced by that tendency which r^Ll old constituted bodies have even when composed of £ew members, to fall be- hind in the progress of knowledge and of improvement, and thus to be led into measures inconsistent with or contrary to the spirit of the times. The medical school of Edinburgh may be said to have been first established about a century ago. Soon after its establishment, the medical Professors appear to have been formed into a distinct body or faculty in A