Introductory address at the public opening of the Medical Session 1869-70, in the University of Glasgow / by John B. Cowan.

  • John Black Cowan
Date:
1869
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    That tlie examination of the candidates skill may be regular, two of the Physicians in town being called to join with the meeting of the University, and assist the said Dr. Sinclare in trying the candidate upon the several parts of Medicine. Accordingly upon the same day, before Dr. Robert Sinclare and Mr. Thomas Kennedy, M.D., Mr. George Thomsone, M.D., asssesors, called to this meeting of the University, Mr. Benion did resolve a case of Medicine to the good satisfaction of the Professor Extraordinairie, and his assessors assumed by him Consensu Senatus Universitatis. The said Professor Extraordinairie, with his assistants the Physicians, did also examine Mr. Benion upon the several parts of Medicine, which being done, Dr. Sinclare, H.T.M.P.E., as Praeses Examinis, did report it was their opinion he should be graduate Doctor of Medicine since he had undergone due and sufficient tryals by a College of Physicians, and behaved himself well therein, which being considered, it was resolved by this meeting of the Univer- sity, that the above Mr. Benion be promoted to the degree of Doctorate in Medicine. A. few days afterwards his diploma was ordered to be drawn—the text of which is given in the munimenta. On 4th July, 1704, The Facultie considering how suitable it is for the College that their great yaird, together with that behind the gardiner's house, be better improved for the ornament of the College, and for the Students' improvement in the skill of Botany, enact that some part thereof be set apart for that use; and on 17th September of the same year, John Marshall, Chirurgeon in Glasgow, a relative of my own family, was nominated to take charge of the physick garden, and to instruct the scholars who shall apply to him for the study of Botany. The want of a Professor of Medicine in 1711 again constrained the Faculty to resort to physicians in the city to assist in the examination of Mr. Robert Houston, surgeon, who was admitted to graduation 1712* ; and in the same year the Faculty appointed the sum of £10, with 20s. to the servant, as the fee for the degree of M.D., the candidate being required to print his thesis, and to defend the same. At a later period (Sept. 29, 1720), a motion was made in favour of Mr. Andrew Grahame, now Governour to the most noble David Marquise of Grahame, that there should be granted to him a diploma creating him Doctor in Medicine. On this occasion,