Correspondence and statements regarding the teaching of clinical medicine in the University of Edinburgh, 1855-1857 : with a sequel / by T. Laycock.

  • Laycock, Thomas, 1812-1876.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Correspondence and statements regarding the teaching of clinical medicine in the University of Edinburgh, 1855-1857 : with a sequel / by T. Laycock. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and privileges conferred upon me by your commission. I enclose the notice of the Senatus Academicus, and have the honour to be, my Lord Provost and gentlemen, yours, &c., T. Laycock, M.D., Professor of the Practice of Physic. The following is the notice referred to in the above letter :— Notice—Clinical Medicine.—The Senatus having sanctioned a resolu¬ tion of the Medical Faculty, that the clinical lectures be delivered according to the programme already published, with the single addition that the two Professors shall lecture on separate days—one on Mondays and Thursdays, and the other on Tuesdays and Fridays—it is hereby intimated that (Dr. Laycock commencing the course on Friday, November 6, at twelve o’clock, as already intimated) Dr. Bennett will commence his clinical lectures on Monday, November 9, at one o’clock, in the Royal Infirmary, and continue the same every Monday and Thursday throughout the session at the same hour.—University of Edinburgh, 2d November. The Patrons having considered this communication at their meeting of the 6th instant, passed the following resolution :— The Magistrates and Town Council having considered the foregoing letter, and the printed notice therein referred to, in respect that the arrangements intimated in the said notice are at variance with the pub¬ lished programme of the University for the present session, and with the customary rotation of clinical teaching, and that these arrangements have been made without the sanction of the Patrons having been either asked or obtained, resolved that the published programme, and the customary rotation of clinical teaching, shall be adhered to by the Professors, and that the arrangements intimated in the foresaid notice shall not, in the mean¬ time, be acted on — leaving to the Senatus, if they shall think fit, to apply to the Patrons for their sanction to the said arrangements, or any others which they may deem proper, when such application shall be duly considered, and directed the clerks to communicate this resolution to the Rev. Principal, and that he be requested to intimate the same to the Senatus Academicus and also to the individual Professors concerned. The very Reverend the Principal intimated accordingly, and the Senatus directed the notice to be removed. Early on Monday, 9th November, the subjoined notice, in Dr. Bennett’s handwriting, was posted at the College-gates :— In consequence of the reversal of the new arrangements for teaching Clinical Medicine by the Patrons, and the injunction to continue the course according to the Programme, and to the Customary Rotation of Clinical Teaching, Dr. Bennett will deliver the Lectures on Clinical Medicine as Senior Professor for the first three months of the Session on Tuesdays and Fridays at 12 o’clock. (Signed) J. Hughes Bennett, Prof. I had already, on Monday November 2d, opened the class of clinical medicine, and taught for some days in the clinical wards. I had also opened the winter course of lectures by an introductory lecture, delivered on Friday November 6th, and had thereafter caused