Reply by Mr. Quain to a pamphlet entitled The official resignation of the Professorship of Surgery, in University College, London, with observations addressed to the President and Council, by Samuel Cooper, F.R.S., late President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England : with a resolution of the Council of the College respecting Mr. Cooper's statements.

  • Quain, Richard, 1800-1887.
Date:
1848
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Credit: Reply by Mr. Quain to a pamphlet entitled The official resignation of the Professorship of Surgery, in University College, London, with observations addressed to the President and Council, by Samuel Cooper, F.R.S., late President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England : with a resolution of the Council of the College respecting Mr. Cooper's statements. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tlie]Medical Faculty, in the Chair, Mr. Cooper, Dr, Garrod, Mr. Morton, Dr. Murphy, Mr. Quain, Dr. Sharpey, Dr. Thomson, Dr. Walshe, Dr. Williams. At this meeting an amendment to Mr. Cooper’s motion was proposed to the effect that it should be recommended to the Council to announce forthwith that they would proceed to fill up the vacant office in the ensuing summer; due notice of the time for receiving applications to be given. After discussion, the original motion was by leave withdrawn, and the amendment was carried unanimously. Notwithstanding this state of the facts, Mr. Cooper alleges that the office “ still remains unfilled in consequence of its not being the pleasure of those two Professors to allow your printed Resolution that the Hospital shall have two Assistant Surgeons, just at present, to be fulfilled.”—Page 6. But Mr. Cooper, it is plain, is himself a party to the delay in common with the whole Medical | Committee. To the reasons assigned by Mr. Cooper for the i desire which he first entertained that the vacancy should be | speedily filled up, I cannot refer, as they were written in a i private letter, or spoken before the Committee. But I may i mention that the reasons assigned for delay were these:—That, inasmuch as the office was a new one (Mr. Potter, wdio first i held it, died immediately after his appointment), and the two Acting Surgeons had declared that there was no urgent i necessity in the business of the Ilospital for a speedy appoint- ' ment, the delay might be useful by aftbrding the Council the advantage of selecting from a larger number of Candidates,— for instance, from old pupils living at a distance, or involved in present engagements, who would thus have the opportunity of making application for the office; that, in fact, while no Candidate was likely to bo lost by a reasonable delay, some good ones might be brought forward. It is not, however, my province to defend the deliberate act of the Medical Committee of the Hospital, including Mr. Cooper himself. 'J'he second of the two causes, to which Mr. Cooper ascribes