A narrative of some late injurious proceedings of the managers of the Royal Infirmary, against the students of medicine in the University of Edinburgh / Published by the Students.

  • University of Edinburgh. Faculty of Medicine
Date:
[1786?]
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Credit: A narrative of some late injurious proceedings of the managers of the Royal Infirmary, against the students of medicine in the University of Edinburgh / Published by the Students. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    good of the patients. If the accommodation of the Profeffors, and the in- “ ftriiftion of the Students, fliould ever be found in any refpefl incompatible with the immediate interefls of humanity, there can be no doubt which muft be preferred. And in that cafe, W'hich the ProfefTors hope will ne- ver occur, they and the Students mufl be content to have accefs to the Hofpital on fuch terms as the Managers could with propriety allow them. The prafhce of the Students having accefs to the Hofpital at all hours, « which had gradually crept in, was neceffarily attended with much inconve- nience to the patients. This being more and more felt and complained of, fomc regulations concerning the attendance of the Students became abfo- lutely necelTary. The Profelfors have no doubt that regulations may be framed, allowing every opportunity of inflruaion to the Students, that is confident with the good of the patients; which they are perfuaded is all that the Students can defire. It would be needlefs and improper to requeft of the Managers completely to refeind their late regulations, and to place things exa^ly on the former footing; as it would be injurious to them to fuppofe, that, at the requed of any fet of men, they diould either do what they judged to be wrong, or negleft what they judged to be right, in the difeharge of their important trud. With refpeft to the manner in which the late regulations of the Mana- “ gers of the Infirmary were fird exprelfed, and which the Students have con- fidered as fo unjud and injurious to them; as the Profedbrs are fare that the Managers did not mean to give any offence to the Students, or to throw any refleflion on them, they are perfuaded that any exprefiion in thofe re- gulations, which the Students could complain of, mud have proceeded “ merely from hade and inadvenency. With refpefl to the requed of the Students to the College, “ no longer to confider attendance at the Infirmary as neceffary to graduation,’’ they mud recolleft, that fuch attendance, and clinical indru^Hon, which cannot be obtained without it, have long been regarded as very important parts of