Medical examinations and physicians requirements considered / by Thomas Mayo.

  • Mayo, Thomas, 1790-1871.
Date:
1857
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    will secure well-compacted answers to probable questions, the mind leaving each part of the sub- ject, as soon as this point is gained. Such, I believe, ha,s been the state of things, and its re- sult, in many cases of University honours. The candidate grasps his prize before the subjects of it have had time to settle into his mind; and the books which he had used for that purpose lie cold on his table for the rest of his life. All the Medical Corporations, as well as the Uni- versities, have professed, and I believe very sincerely professed, an anxious desire to secure and raise the standard of anterior education, both in inathematical science and literature. And there has been a time at which the College of Physicians was eminent for the successful promotion of one great branch of literature—that of the dead languages. Whatever remarks I make on the general head, might there- fore have with us a special reference to this element; on which, however, as considered separately from general literature, I will say no more than that the possession of it has long constituted a kind of intel- lectual freemasonry. That it has given to the class of scholars who possess it a confident and recognised