Annual address to the Royal College of Physicians on Monday, April 1st, 1901 / by Sir William S. Church.

  • Church, William S., Sir, 1837-
Date:
1901
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Credit: Annual address to the Royal College of Physicians on Monday, April 1st, 1901 / by Sir William S. Church. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the College, and the succeeding year Ladcliffe Librarian at Oxford. It was through his in¬ strumentality that the library was moved to the Museum buildings, thus rendering it more easily available for those working there, and setting free the Camera Ladcliffiana to be used as the Leading Loom of the Bodleian. He succeeded Hr. Ogle as Legius Professor of Medicine in 1858, and from that time onwards occupied an important position, not only in the University, but before the general public. Upon the estab¬ lishment of the General Council of Medical Education he was the first representative for Oxford, and from the very first took a deep interest in its work, and exercised much in¬ fluence on its proceedings, and after sixteen years of service became its President in 1874. As President he continued his exertions to raise the standard of medical education, both in regard to professional and general knowledge. He advocated the establishment of a single portal for qualification to practise, and in vain endeavoured to persuade his University to require the diploma of the Conjoint Board of England before admitting its graduates to the examina¬ tion for its medical degrees. In the same spirit 3
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