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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    after much delay, were informed that the Meeting of the Senatus Academicus, being an adjourned meeting held for a special and very important purpose, the business on which dhey had come could not be taken into consideration that day; that they regretted the trouble these gentlemen had in giving their attendance on this occasion, and that they would not fail to communicate without delay, the result of the deliberation of the meeting to their Honourable Pa- trons. The result of the deliberation of this and of the preceding meeting was, that a Memorial, dra\vn up by the Medical Faculty, and approved of by a majority of the Senatus Academicus, pointing out the injurious conse- quences which, in their opinion, were likely to result to the University, and in particular to the Professors of Medicine, Anatomy and Surgery, from the establishment of a chair for the teaching of Military Surgery, “ should be respectfully transmitted to their Honourable Patrons, with a view, after receiving their consideration, to be by them conveyed to his Majesty’s Ministers, as containing the sentiments of the Senatus Academicus on the subject to which the Memorial refers ; and that at the same time an intimation should ac- company the Memorial, when so transmitted, that if the pur- pose of their Honourable Patrons for cari*ying forward the induction of Mr Thomson, is not changed by this com- munication, the Senatus Academicus will be ready to receive the Commission to him as Regius Professor of Military Surgery, on any day which the Patrons may be pleased to propose.” The Patrons, on receiA'ing this communication,