A prelection, introductory to the medical session of 1855-56, delivered before the University of Dublin / by William Stokes, M.D.

  • Stokes, William, 1804-1878.
Date:
1855
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Credit: A prelection, introductory to the medical session of 1855-56, delivered before the University of Dublin / by William Stokes, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cals, which have been discreditable in the last degree. The style and animus of these productions are such that further notice of them is not to be desired. But I wish to say in this Hall, that no man can have a more thorough perception of the causes which have acted in depressing the Medical Service of the Army than the present Director-General. And I know his determination not only to serve his country through evil and good report—by providing for her devoted soldiers that care which a liberal education can alone afford, but by using, for the elevation of his order, the irresistible force of an ample extra- professional education. It has been urged upon the Board, that the num- • bers attending the Medical classes would be in- creased, and that certain advantages would result to the student, if the degree of Doctor of Medicine were conferred without requiring the education in Arts. We may admit the first of these propositions, but not the last. If the degree in Medicine were given without Arts, it would be at once degraded. Our Bachelors and Doctors of Medicine would be placed in an inferior rank to those of Oxford or Cambridge. The step would be nothing but a yielding to the system of exclusive education, so injurious to our real interests. Do entirely away with the Arts edu- cation for the Physician, and you at once remove his claim to be placed on an equal footing with the Clergyman or the Barrister. It is many years ago that this matter was so pressed upon the Board,—