On the advancement of midwifery education in Scotland : a letter addressed to Dr. Andrew Wood, president of the Royal College of Surgeons / by J. Matthews Duncan.

  • James Matthews Duncan
Date:
1856
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Credit: On the advancement of midwifery education in Scotland : a letter addressed to Dr. Andrew Wood, president of the Royal College of Surgeons / by J. Matthews Duncan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    only to pass an examination in the Theory of Midwifery, but also to visit patients in an hospital, and be thereafter questioned as to the diagnosis and treatment of their cases. These numerous and widely-spread examples will be sufficient to show how far we are behind some of our neighbours. Our Institutions are widely different from those of the Continent in many respects, and cannot, wuth justice or propriety, be moulded after their fashions. It will exercise the deliberative function of your body to devise the simplest and readiest plan for securing a growth and vigour in our Institutions equal to, if not like, those of strangers. On this subject I humbly submit, that the requirement from the student of a certificate, that he has personally attended a few cases of labour, in connection with a recognised Lying-in Institution, appears to me sufficient for securing the minimum qualification for the degree. Finally, Sir, I am confident that when this important and necessary reform is effected, there will dawn a brighter era for Obstetric science and art than has yet been seen. I am sure that the profession will ultimately be great gain¬ ers by the change. I am sure that the public, for whom, and in whom, all our exertions in medicine should end.