The educational and subsidiary provisions of the Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery set forth in a letter to the Rev. Dr. Samuel Wilson Warneford ... : the whole being intended to shew the importance and practicability of applying the means actually possessed to some arrangement for providing collegiately for the board, lodging, and tutelary care of its pupils during their residence at Birmingham for the purposes of study / by Vaughan Thomas.

  • Thomas Vaughan, 1775-1858.
Date:
1843
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Credit: The educational and subsidiary provisions of the Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery set forth in a letter to the Rev. Dr. Samuel Wilson Warneford ... : the whole being intended to shew the importance and practicability of applying the means actually possessed to some arrangement for providing collegiately for the board, lodging, and tutelary care of its pupils during their residence at Birmingham for the purposes of study / by Vaughan Thomas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    for the tutelary care and collegiate residence of its Pupils. Such being the outline and purpose of this my Report or Representation, I think that I shall best consult the clearness as well as conciseness of my statements, if I throw them under a series of heads; partly to prove by distincter specification the justice of the praises bestowed upon the School, partly to exhibit more fully its provisions for professional studies and instructions, but principally that it may he made to appear that, as a place of Medical and Surgical Education, it possesses, in the extent of its purchased Premises and the availableness of its existing Buildings, the means and materials of a Collegiate establishment, and that, by improvements in the system of board, lodging, and private tuition, the higher as well as subordinate ends of Education may be attained, that its moral and religious, as well as scientific and secular purposes, the preparation of the heart and the formation of the character upon Christian principles, as well as the qualification of the head and of the hand for the skilful performance of professional acts and offices, may be accom- plished. These—these are the great desiderata, which the present pitiable state of Medical and Surgical Pupils upon first coming from the recesses of a country residence to some School of Medicine and Surgery in the Metropolis or great Provincial Town, presses upon our sense of duty, and upon our benevolence B 2