Letter to the Right Hon. the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Town-Council of Edinburgh, in regard to the Chair of Pathology in the University of Edinburgh / by James Syme.

  • James Syme
Date:
1837
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Credit: Letter to the Right Hon. the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Town-Council of Edinburgh, in regard to the Chair of Pathology in the University of Edinburgh / by James Syme. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    selves or the University, being blinded by the glitter of an object immediately before them. The suppression of a chair, it is said, will diminish the number of the Medical Faculty, and increase the share of graduation fees, which are divided among them. Each graduate pays L. 10, 10s. to the Medical Faculty, the members of which are at present thirteen in number. There will this year be about 100 Graduates, and L. 1050 will consequently be divided into thirteen shares of L. 80 each. If the chair of General Pathology is abolished, the Medical Faculty will be reduced to twelve. And sup- i pose the number of graduates keeps up in future to its present j amount, each Professor will receive, in addition to what he i now does, the twelfth part of L. 80, or L. 6, 13s. It is un- i happily too true that the Professors are not rich; but I may safely leave the Council to determine whether they are so very poor, as to render this sum, 44 enormous” as it appears to our adversaries, so very splendid as to dazzle our mental vision,—and render us incompetent either to form an unpre- j judiced judgment of what is good for the University, or to ] offer a trustworthy opinion to the Council. I have the honour to be, My Lord and Gentlemen, Your most obedient Servant, JAMES SYME, Professor of Clinical Surgery. 9, Charlotte Square, 28th July 1837.