Testimonials in favour of William Stirling..., candidate for the Chair of Institutes of Medicine in the University of Aberdeen.

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[1877?]
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Credit: Testimonials in favour of William Stirling..., candidate for the Chair of Institutes of Medicine in the University of Aberdeen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    after graduation the post of assistant to Professor Wyville Thomson. Turning his attention especially to experimental physiology, Dr Stirling, by a prolonged course of study under that greatest living master of modern physiologists—Professor Ludwig— fitted himself, as he has proved by his writings, to take a foremost place amongst the successful cultivators of the science. Dr Stirling’s elaborate investigation in the domain of nerve physiology,—which, cultivated first of all with conspicuous success by Helmholtz, is, thanks to the labours of Exner, Donders, and others, becoming enriched with facts which throw great light upon complex operations of the living nervous mechanism,—proves satisfactorily that he possesses the scientific devotion, the tenacity, and the intelligence to carry out a piece of work of great importance. Dr Stirling’s other published writings certify to his general scientific enthusiasm, and his ability to work in other than the physical departments of experimental physiology. During his tenure of the office of assistant to Professor Piutherford, Dr Stirling has had great opportunities of teach¬ ing the various departments of physiology, and I am informed that he has impressed his students by his zeal and thorough¬ ness. Entertaining as I do a high opinion of Dr Stirling’s capacity and attainments, and of his thorough fitness to undertake, as they should be undertaken, all the duties of a Professor of Physiology, I cannot but acquiesce in his request that I should express my sense of his fitness to fill the Chair of Physiology in the University of Aberdeen. ARTHUR GAMGEE.
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