Testimonials in favour of John Argyll Robertson for the chair of Materia Medica, Edinburgh University.

Date:
1832
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Credit: Testimonials in favour of John Argyll Robertson for the chair of Materia Medica, Edinburgh University. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No. XXXI. From G. C. Holland, M. D., Lecturer on the Practice of Physic and Physiology in the Sheffield Medical Institution. Sheffield, May 14*, 1832. My dear Sir,—I have just heard that a vacancy is likely very soon to occur in the University of Edinburgh, in the Professorship of Materia Medi- ca, a circumstance of no ordinary importance to the well-being of this distinguished school. Its future character depends altogether on the judg- ment exercised by the Town-Council in the elec- tion of Professors. I feel, indeed, justified by ex- perience, both as a student and as a teacher of Me- dicine, in declaring, without reserve, that those persons alone can be properly qualified for dis- charging, in an efficient manner, the duties of a Public Professor of any science, who have already been some time engaged, not only in lecturing, but in lecturing on that particular science ; and that it is only by selecting, as Medical Professors of the University of Edinburgh, the most competent among the private teachers of the several medical sciences, that its Patrons can hope at once to sti- mulate these private teachers to increased exer- tions, and to benefit Edinburgh as a School of