To the members of the Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh / [James Hamilton].

  • Hamilton, James, 1767-1839.
Date:
[1824]
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Credit: To the members of the Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh / [James Hamilton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ♦ A • Pf:77 TOr.'jf Ogfn HOY flOI JloT c’)7T r ? * • i ^ r *; /> . #r ) ; i;< )y' iiMfoia £ idirfi i :d 'idvon br.d has .PuoimohfioA enhmoS * UUJ JJOY C : * hoirrsBOif C .j f f vJJ, Tb the Members of the Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh. ?TOO 1 rA Gentlemen, »~ f • • r i * r r r . f < rr Having been quite unprepared for the discussions which took place at our Meeting on Monday, November 8th, I feel that I may not have explained, so clearly as I should have done, the reasons which induce me to believe that the Midwifery Class should be forthwith added to the Curriculum. I therefore take this method of stating the grounds of my claim, in the hopes, that on a deliberate and dispas¬ sionate consideration of the whole case, you will entertain different sentiments from those expressed by the majority of that Meeting. You well know, that on or about the 17th January 1824, as Profes¬ Honourable the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council, as Patrons of the University of Edinburgh, praying to have my Profes¬ sorship put upon the same footing with the Professorships of Ana- tomy, Botany, Chemistry, Materia Medica, Practice of Physic, and Theory of Medicine, that is, that the Students who take degrees of Doctors of Physic should be obliged to attend Lectures on Midwifery in the University of Edinburgh, or some other University, as they are obliged to attend the Lectures of the above six Professorships, and that they should be subjected to the examination of the Professor of Mid¬ wifery, previous to taking their Degrees. This IV