Additional hints respecting the improvement of the system of medical instruction followed in the University of Edinburgh : humbly submitted to the consideration of the patrons and professors of that institution.

  • Thomson, John, 1765-1846.
Date:
1826
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Credit: Additional hints respecting the improvement of the system of medical instruction followed in the University of Edinburgh : humbly submitted to the consideration of the patrons and professors of that institution. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lent disputes, and each pai'ty in these disputes, as its influ- ence at Court or genius for intrigue, was superior, alter- nately prevailed, tfll at length, in 1671, Louis XIV., weary of their useless altercations, but anxious to promote both branches of the medical profession, determined that the lec- tureson Surgery should infuture be read at the Jardin Royal, by a Surgeon, and shortly afterwards gave orders that bodies for dissection and the necessary demonstrations, should be freely supplied. ‘ The wars which deluged the Continent with blood during the reign of that ambitious Monarch, made Surgery of greater importance to the public than ever. The increase of anatomical knowledge rendered its operations more sure, more exact, and more successful. It rose, as it deserved, in general esteem ; and as Paris was considered as the principal source of these^ improvements in Surgery, which were every where visible, and every where beneficial, the demonstrations in the Jai'din Royal were crowded with pupils from all parts of Europe, and, in the yeai’ 1724, no fewer than five public Professors of the Theory and Prac- tice of Surgery were appointed in that school.’ The ef- fects which this institution has had, not only on the state of Surgery in France, but in all the other countries of Europe, are too well known to require any explanation In 1806, the Professor to the College of Surgeons, who, at the particular- recommendation of the late Lieutenant- * Lectures on Inflammation, p. 37-