The Victoria University of Manchester Medical School.

  • University of Manchester. Medical School.
Date:
1908
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Credit: The Victoria University of Manchester Medical School. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    London to accept for their diplomas his anatomy cer- tificates instead of those of a London school ; but it was not until 1828 that, on the report of a Committee of the House of Commons on the teaching of anatomy, the College conceded this. Before this Committee a great compliment was paid to the Manchester School of Medicine by the Secretary of the Apothecaries’ Hall, who stated in his evidence that no young men came before the Court of the Apothecaries’ Hall better qualified in every respect than those who had been entirely edu- cated at Manchester, where excellent lectures in every branch of medicine were given by competent teachers.” In spite of this influential testimonial, however, the College of Surgeons, although they recognised the teaching of anatomy at Manchester, would not place the Royal Infirmary on the same footing in the matter of clinical teaching as the London, Dublin, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh hospitals, and accept its cer- tificates for surgical instruction, and yet at this time the Manchester Infirmary had a larger number of patients than either St. Bartholomew’s or St. Thomas’s Hospitals, which were two of the largest London hospitals. The desired recognition for clinical teaching was eventually granted on the report of another Committee of the House of Commons on medical education in 1834, which reflected adversely on the policy of the Council of the College of Surgeons in the matter of these cer- tificates of clinical instruction in the subjects of their examinations. The success of the Royal School of Medicine brought about the formation of other rival schools in the town, ail of which were, however, but short-lived. The Owens College.—A most important epoch in the history of the school of medicine was its amalgamation, in 1872, with the Owens College, an institution which was founded under the will of a Manchester merchant, John Owens, who died in 1846, leaving for this object the sum of £g6,ooo. The Owens College, which, like the medical