Hints respecting the improvement of the literary & scientific education of candidates for the degree of doctor of medicine in the University of Edinburgh : humbly submitted to the consideration of the patrons and professors of that institution / by a graduate of King's College, Aberdeen [i.e. John Thomson].

  • Thomson, John, 1765-1846.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Hints respecting the improvement of the literary & scientific education of candidates for the degree of doctor of medicine in the University of Edinburgh : humbly submitted to the consideration of the patrons and professors of that institution / by a graduate of King's College, Aberdeen [i.e. John Thomson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    put together, are not the hasty suggestions of the mo¬ ment, but the deliberate result of much observation and reflection on the education of medical men,—on the du¬ ties which they have to perform to the Public,—and on the nature and grounds of the distinctions which ought to exist among them. They come from one, who, sensible of the defects of his own education, is very de¬ sirous to promote that of the rising members of the me¬ dical profession—from one who is no novice in the art which he practises, but who has passed through the se¬ veral gradations of Surgeon’s apprentice; Apothecary’s assistant, Surgeon’s and Physician’s clerk in a public Hospital; Surgeon-apothecary, or Family practition¬ er; Doctor of Medicine;—and who, by the favour of his medical Brethren, and by the patronage of the Public, is at length a Consulting Physician. They come from one, who, were he a member of the Senatus Academicus, should, on an occasion such as the present, feel it to be his duty to express these opinions orally in his place, as he conceives it to be a duty which he owes to the Pub¬ lic to express them in this manner to You. With every good wish for the increasing reputation and prosperity of the University of Edinburgh, and for the continuance of the usefulness of its Medical School, he has the honor to subscribe himself, Gentlemen, Your most obedient humble Servant. A Graduate of King’s College, Aberdeen, J. Johnstone $• Son, Printers, 104. High Street