Historical account of Charing Cross Hospital and Medical School (University of London) : original plan and statutes, rise and progress, founded 1818 : with which is included some account of the origin of the other hospitals and schools in London / by William Hunter.

  • William Hunter
Date:
1914
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Credit: Historical account of Charing Cross Hospital and Medical School (University of London) : original plan and statutes, rise and progress, founded 1818 : with which is included some account of the origin of the other hospitals and schools in London / by William Hunter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    Public liberality supplied to a reasonable extent the necessary means, and careful economy on the part of its founders rendered those means efficient to conduct the Charity by progressive steps—first as a Dispensary, and then as an Hospital-— to its present state of comparative prosperity and usefulness. The Medical School. Concurrently with the foundation and progress of the Hospital, were the establishment and advancement of its useful and prosperous Medical School. The School, organised and conducted under well matured regulations, has always been carried on at its own cost, and it is gratifying to record that unlike the majority of similar undertakings, it has occasioned no expense to the Hospital, and has contributed in a moderate degree to the Institution to which it owes its source* Whatever additional solicitude has arisen from the establishment and organisa- tion of this School, it has been much lightened by the kind co-operation of the various medical and surgical officers who have shared in its management. To the cordial and harmonious concurrence of them all we are now indebted for a valuable place of professional instruction, where sound principles and practice are taught in the healing art. Many Pupils and Students educated at the School have disseminated in their respective public stations the scientific truths which they here learnt, and in this way the benefits resulting from medical and surgical skill, have become reflected throughout those classes of the community of which the benevolent supporters of our public charities consist. An important though unusual feature which the School, together with its other objects, embraces, is worthy of a passing notice, that of its annually admitting a limited number of gentlemen as Free Scholars, the well educated members of families who have seen better days. Of such gentlemen, many, but for this School, must have despaired of the means of qualifying themselves for the exercise of a profession to which by preliminary education they were best fitted, whilst many others who have partaken of its benefits ascribe to it the social position and comfort which they now enjoy. The list which has this day been read to the Council of additional benefactors to the Hospital, contains the name of one who was a Free Scholar here upwards of twenty years ago, and now holds the [* I find from the School Accounts, that, after payment of all expenses, the amount paid to the Hospital was £4,964 8s. Id., rising from £26 12s. 6d. in the first year 1834, to £303 10s. \0d. in 1860, an average of £171 per annum. W.H. 1914].