Speech delivered at a meeting of the Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh, on the 20th Nov. 1824, respecting a proposal for new regulations in granting the degree of doctor of medicine / by Andrew Duncan (Sen. Med. Theor. P.).

  • Duncan, Andrew, Jun., 1773-1832
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1824
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Credit: Speech delivered at a meeting of the Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh, on the 20th Nov. 1824, respecting a proposal for new regulations in granting the degree of doctor of medicine / by Andrew Duncan (Sen. Med. Theor. P.). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cal School at Edinburgh, notwithstanding the se- vere losses it has lately sustained by the death of Professors of the very first eminence,—of a Cul- LEN, a Black, and a Monro,—has been much increased, as our matriculation list in the Al- bum of the University, and our annual medical graduations, abundantly testify. Under these regulations, the d egree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Edinburgh has obtained distinguished honour in every polished nation, in every quarter of the world, as being conferred on- ly on those who have received a regular medical education at Universities, and who have made a good use of the opportunities which they enjoyed. Under these judicious regulations, the number of medical graduates at Edinburgh, in the space of little more than half a century, has increased from about 20 to about 120 annually. . But this increased number of graduates, and those strict examinations which w^ere required, imposed a very fatiguing labour on every Pj-ofes- sor of Medicine, whose duty it was, by the sta- tutes of the University, to be an examinator. And I am not ashamed to acknowledge, that, af- ter reaching the age of threescore and ten, I was anxious to retire from that fatigue. I according- ly relinquished it almost entirely to my coadjutor Dr Alison j and, while I continued in full pos- session of my seat in the Senatus Academicus, I relinquished to him the whole duties of those ex-