Medical education, character, and conduct : introductory addresses, delivered to students of medicine in Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1855-1866-1882 / by W.T. Gairdner.

Date:
1883
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Credit: Medical education, character, and conduct : introductory addresses, delivered to students of medicine in Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1855-1866-1882 / by W.T. Gairdner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    forgotten, at least by all who are not immediately concerned in them. But I am not without hope that such reminis- cences as cling to my own mind of these earlier addresses may be turned to account, not for the purpose of reproduc- ing their ideas, but rather of inquiring how far the progress of the medical art has, in any degree, confirmed or contro- verted the impressions entertained of it by a teacher sixteen or twenty-six years ago. And with this view I intend, as soon as possible, perhaps in a few days, certainly some time between now and Christmas, to place at your disposal the whole of these addresses, including the present, so that you may at your leisure, if so minded, follow out with more full understanding and appreciation the few suggestions, imperfectly expressed as I fear they will be, called forth by the present occasion. And while in this retrospective mood I am reminded that only the other day we had set before us, in the shape of a leader in The Times? and in connec- tion with the opening this month of the various medical schools in London, a singularly clear and luminous appreciation of the changes introduced into medical study and practice in England, as the consequence of the Medical Act of 1858 ; from which anonymous, but not unauthoritative, statement it may be admissible to borrow a few sentences as an illustration of our present position ; keeping in view always that the writer of the article in question, well-informed and thoroughly impartial 1 Times of October 3rd, 1882.