[List of succesful medical candidates for 1808 & titles of their theses.

  • Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
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[1809]
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Credit: [List of succesful medical candidates for 1808 & titles of their theses. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    By a late regulation of the Trustees of the University, the medical graduates are not obliged to publish their Inaugural Dissertations. After the dissertations have been submitted to the Medical Faculty, if they are ap¬ proved of the publication is altogether optional; or entirely the act of the graduate. In consequence of this regulation, which has now been in operation for two terms, only a small number of the dissertations have been printed and published. Of the sixty, the titles of which are given above, only three have been published. These are marked with an asterisk Others, how¬ ever, are intended for publication, either entire or in part; and some of them, perhaps, in a state more im¬ proved (by the authors themselves) than that in which they were originally presented to the Medical Faculty. * f The writer of this account does not hesitate to give it as his own individual opinion, that the present exist¬ ing regulation of the Trustees, in regard to the Inaugu¬ ral Dissertations, is an improvement upon the former system. To compel a young man, who acknowledges that he has nothing new or important to communicate to the world (and whose dissertation is found, on exa¬ mination, to have no claim whatever to original merit), to appear before the public as an author, seems, to use the mildest phrase, an unnecessary procedure. It is not meant to be insinuated, that such is the character of all the Inaugural Dissertations which have, hitherto, been published in Philadelphia. So far is this from be- ins; the case, that it is believed, that few universities, in any country, have produced more respectable original dissertations than some (not a fewJ of those which
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