Papers relative to the question of providing adequate means for the study of anatomy.

  • Ferguson, Robert, 1799-1865.
Date:
1832
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Papers relative to the question of providing adequate means for the study of anatomy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    IV. LETTER ADDRESSED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COLLEGE OF SURGEONS TO THE SECRETARY OF THE HOME DEPARTMENT. Royal College of Surgeons in London, Dec. 10, 1831. The undersigned members of the Council of the College of Sur- vgeons in London, have the honour of addressing your Lordship on •a subjfect of painful interest to the whole community, but especially to the members of the medical profession. The Royal College of Surgeons are empowered by their charter 'to examine certain individuals as to their knowledge of surgery, and they are especially required to institute such examination re- specting those who are candidates for the situation of surgeon in the army or navy. It is not possible that any one should be properly qualified to practise in this department of the healing art, who has not attained a due knowledge of human anatomy, and explored with his own hand the structure of the dead body. Proofs of their having done so have therefore been always required of candidates who have presented themselves for examination. The Council believed that they could not properly perform their duty to their Sovereign, from whom the College received its charter, nor to the public, for whose benefit it was granted, without insist- ing on the study of anatomy by dissection, as tlie most important part of surgical education.