A narrative of some late injurious proceedings of the managers of the Royal Infirmary, against the students of medicine in the University of Edinburgh / Published by the Students.

  • University of Edinburgh. Faculty of Medicine
Date:
[1786?]
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Credit: A narrative of some late injurious proceedings of the managers of the Royal Infirmary, against the students of medicine in the University of Edinburgh / Published by the Students. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    have attended the Infirmary. The conneftion that fnbfilled between them and blfitr -- - intercourre of mutual b efits. 1 heir ample and uniform contributions * aflforded a convenient aid to canty and precarious revenues, which every art of felicitation had for a fe. tb? r employed to extort from the generoCty or oftentation of bi ff **^1- ^ Prudence of the Managers did not yet refufe every equita- ent 1 attendance in the Houfe defirable, and as fubfervi- rea T ^ j confiftent with the great ends of its inftitution. The rehpfh Students merited and obtained from them politenefs and refpeaj and thus the welfare of the Hofpital, and the benefit of its pupils. ere equa y promoted, fuch a period, it could not eafily have been fore- een, that a body of men, fo much interefted in the profperity of the city ' the .V «« at once from have any ungenerous innovation, llaould deprived the Students of advantages they had fo long enjoyed. Such an event however, was nm far diftant. In the month of June 1785, under pre- ^^“'arities fuppofed to have been committed by individuals, t le Managers thought proper to involve the whole body in the punilhment’ - ullefs^ following regulations, to render attendimce on the Hofpital entirely For ,IW ]aft thirty years, the Student, of Medicine have ndt contributed lefs than cool, annua y to the funds of tne Infirmary. The Managers at prefent talk loudly of the flonrilhing llate of tts revenue, and their total independence of any farther afiiftance from the Students The time has been, tvhen they did not difdain to have plays aded for its maintenance, nor ta purchafe, by the ufe of tts long room, the profits of a fubfcription-ball. (See Hijlory of the Royal