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.

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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    Lectures on Surgery delivered by the Professor of Ana- tomy and Surgery cannot be regarded as “ a course of Lectures on Surgery, in addition to his Lectures on Ana- tomy ; ” and notwithstanding his belief, sanctioned as it appears to be by the Senatus Academicus, they cannot be considered as a course of Surgery “ to the same extent with the courses delivered by any other lecturer on Surgery here or elsewhere;” but that they must be regarded as being merely conjoined with, or supplementary to, his anatomical course, and the greater part of them as being given at the expense of the time which might be devoted to the course of Anatomy. It will be found by a Minute of Council of the 7tli November 1827, that, in a conference of a Committee of the Honourable Patrons, with the Pro- fessor of Anatomy and Surgery, he stated that “ he con- sidered the two branches of study to be so intimately con- nected that it would be improper to disjoin them ; that his lectures were all formed upon the principle of combining the study of them, and that he had always made Surgery form a prominent part of his lectures, and of his opera- tions upon the subjects on which lie lectured.” In sup- port of the view I have taken, I may also refer to the fact, of which the Senatus Academicus cannot be igno- rant, that the tickets or certificates of attendance on the Lectures on Surgery given by the Professor of Anatomy and Surgery have hitherto not been received by the Royal College ot Surgeons as a qualification for examination of Candidates for the Surgical Diploma, on the sole ground that these lectures do not constitute a course equal in ex-