Hints respecting the improvement of the literary & scientific education of candidates for the degree of Doctor of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh : humbly submitted to the consideration of the patrons and professors of that institution / by a graduate of King's College, Aberdeen.

Date:
1824
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Credit: Hints respecting the improvement of the literary & scientific education of candidates for the degree of Doctor of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh : humbly submitted to the consideration of the patrons and professors of that institution / by a graduate of King's College, Aberdeen. 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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    1G relative to Graduation, which have been adopted in other Schools ol Medicine, particularly in those in which it has been lately attempted to adapt the Course of medical study to the present state of the Medical Sciences. I shall content myself simply with pointing out the Medical Schools of Austria and France to your notice. In order to be admitted a Student of Medicine in an Austrian University, it is necessary that the candidate should produce certificates of his having studied for three years, in a Lyceum, the Latin and Greek lan- guages, History, Mathematics, and Natural and Moral Philosophy*. The Course of Medical Study extends to five years, and comprehends lectures on the following Subjects:— lsfyear.—Introduction to Medico-Chirurgical Study, and Natural History; Anatomy; and Botany. 2d year.—Physiology; and General Chemistry. 3d year. — General Pathology and Therapeutics ; Midwifery; Materia Medica et Chirurgica; General and Special Pathology of external Diseases; Ophthal- mology; and Demonstration of Surgical Instruments and Bandages. 4th year.—Special Therapeutics of Internal Diseases; Clinical Lectures on Internal Diseases; and Veterinary Medicine. 5th year.—Special Therapeutics of Internal Diseases ; Clinical Lectures on Internal Diseases; Medical Juris- prudence; and Medical Police. • Quarterly Journal of Foreign Medicine and Surgery, vol. i, p. 36.