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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    thought incompetent with the exercise of Surgei-y and Phar- macy, both which he was to relinquish, that they would not think it necessary to continue his name on their roll;” which request was immediately complied with. Though Dr Mdnro did not receive a Commission from the Magi- strates and'Town-Council to teach Surgery, and though he never gave any course on this subject distinct from his Lectures on Anatomy, yet his course of lectures continued, during the whole of his lifetime, to be the only one in Scot- land, from which any knowledge of Surgery could be ob- tained. How much the value of the Lectures on Surgery^ which were given by this distinguished Professor, was en- hanced, by the daily and long-continued opportunities he had enjoyed of personal intercourse with Surgical Patients, may be judged of, from the numerous excellent papers which he pubhshed in the Edinburgh Medical Essays. Dr Alexander Monro Secundus, was, in the year 1754, at the age of twenty-one, appointed his Father’s colleague and successor in the Chair of Anatomy. Never did a Professor of his age enter upon the duties of his office with a greater knowledge of the subject which he had received a commission to teach, or a more ardent desire to distin- guish himself as an improver of anatomical science; and it will be acknowledged, I am convinced, by every one who has had the advantage of attending his Lectui’es, that this desire, instead of suffering any abatement, continued to in- crease with the number of his years.