Seventeenth annual announcement of the Medical College of Georgia.

  • Medical College of Georgia (1833-1873)
Date:
1848
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Credit: Seventeenth annual announcement of the Medical College of Georgia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ 'A; % <y \ } J* r.. ' , - ANNUAL ANNOUNCEMENT, &c. The Trustees of this Institution are much gratified to have it in their power to announce to the Medical Profession, that their Faculty have resolved to comply with the recommenda¬ tions made by the Medical Convention and reiterated by the Medical Association. They have accordingly extended the course of Lectures from four to jive months, to be commenced on the first Monday in November next. In thus adding to their labors, the Faculty have been actuated by the desire to demonstrate to the Profession that the prosperity of their school will rather prove an incentive to increased exertions, than to retrograde indolence. The age in which we live is emphatically one of progress and one in which therefore no institution should be deemed w*orthy of patronage which can remain satisfied With the statu quo. The large and respectable bodies above named, have loudly sounded the note of reformation; this has been re-echoed by the profession throughout our land; and shall it not be heeded by those upon whom devolves the responsible office of teaching? The Trustees of the Medical College of Georgia confidently appeal to the Profession, to sustain the in¬ stitution which was first to adopt a six months course of Lec¬ tures, first to call a national convention for purposes of reforma¬ tion ; and which now boldly comes up to the recommendations of the Medical Association. It is true that it was not sustained in its effort in 1832 to continue the term six months* and it is equally true that it did not succeed in the attempt to assemble a convention in 1836. This Institution at that time stood alone in its cry of reformation. The Profession at large has since, however, awakened to the subject, and spoken in language that cannot be misunderstood. The time has come when, to be luke-warm in the matter must be suicfclal. Professors must re¬ double their zeal, and by so doing inspire pupils with that indus¬ try and desire for knowledge which characterize the age, and without which none should expect to succeed in the discharge of an honorable and responsible vocation. The issue is now fairly made between those who desire to do their whole duty to society, and those who would rather remain behind'than incur the risk of diminishing their emoluments by a change which is acknowledged on all hands to be necessary to substantial acquire¬ ments, The Trustees believe that their Faculty incur no such