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 / [by John Thomson].

  • 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 / [by John Thomson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to be forgotten, that it was during the period in which Dr Monro secundus was employed in lecturing on Ana¬ tomy and Surgery in the University of Edinburgh, that his contemporary Mr Hunter, in a private station in London, by his devotion to the study, practice and teaching of Sur¬ gery, laid the foundation of a fame which must be perpetual. The disadvantage of Surgery being taught in the Uni¬ versity by a Professor who was not, and could not, be em¬ ployed in the practice of the art, soon became apparent to the Incorporation of Surgeons ; and induced a Member of this Body, Mr James Rae, who, in 1766, was appointed one of the four Substitute Surgeons at the Royal Infirmary, to commence a separate course of general Lectures on Surgery. After having delivered this course of lectures for some years, he was requested, in 1769, by the Students, to deliver practi¬ cal lectures on the chirurgical cases in the Royal Infirmary. This request of the students wras communicated by Mr Rae to the Incorporation of Surgeons, and being highly ap¬ proved of by them, they joined Mr Rae in an application to the Managers of the Royal Infirmary, who unanimously approved of the scheme, in a minute dated 2d October 1769, and signed by Principal Robertson. Mr Rae ac¬ cordingly conducted two separate Courses of Surgical Lec¬ tures for a period of several years. In August 1772 Mr Rae requested of the College of Surgeons, that they would nominate a Committee to exa¬ mine the plan of a Course of Lectures on Surgery which