Remarks by the professor of surgery, on a communication from the Senatus Academicus, to the Lord Provost, magistrates, and council of the City of Edinburgh, addressed to the College Committee.

Date:
1831
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Credit: Remarks by the professor of surgery, on a communication from the Senatus Academicus, to the Lord Provost, magistrates, and council of the City of Edinburgh, addressed to the College Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    had not voluntarily attended a separate course of lectures on Surgery. But the number of graduates attending the course of the Professor of Anatomy and Surgery, and con- sequently the amount of fees received by him from that class of students, will not be diminished by this addition to the course of study. On those, again, who intend to take the diploma of the College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the Surgery Ticket of the Professor of Anatomy and Surgery confers no privilege, the lectures which he has delivered on that branch never having been recognised by that body as a full and sufficient course, such as is required by their re- gulations. Indeed I have occasion to know that several members of the College entertain very serious doubts, whether the College ought to receive attendance on the lectures delivered by the Professor of Anatomy and Sur- gery in the University, as a sufficient course even of Ana- tomy of the extent required by their regulations, in con- sequence of the share of these lectures professedly devoted to an explanation of the Principles and Practice of Sur- gery ; and other teachers have complained that the College thus allow the Professor of Anatomy to conduct his course of lectures on a plan which they would not sanction in a member of their own Body. If, again, there be any Medical or Surgical Corporation which, contrary to the practice of the College of Surgeons, has been accustomed to receive attendance on the course of the Professor of Anatomy and Surgery as sufficient both for a course of Anatomy and a course of Surgery, the advantages enjoyed by the Professor of Anatomy and