Introductory address to the students of the Edinburgh School of Medicine on 1st November 1875 / by John Chiene.

  • John Chiene
Date:
1875
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Credit: Introductory address to the students of the Edinburgh School of Medicine on 1st November 1875 / by John Chiene. 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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    should be allowed to pass in any one subject, always supposing that he knows it thoroughly. To judge of this thoroughness, the standard the examiner has to remember is, that an extensive knowledge is not so much required, as that the knowledge should be precise and accurate. A mistake is infinitely worse than an omission. The man who does not know, has only to learn; the man who is in error, has to unlearn and then to learn. These remarks regarding the individuality and freedom of this School, cannot but recall to many present the recent death of perhaps one of the greatest of our teachers—John Hughes Bennett. The time has hardly come for a proper estimate of his character. His individuality was too marked, and the freedom with which he expressed his opinions too apparent, to enable us at present fully to estimate our loss. Professor Bennett was an enthu- siastic teacher; his love of his work, his natural talent for teaching, fostered by years of special study, the clear- ness of his lectures, the impress he made on the minds of his students will not die. In our wards where the essential features of his system of clinical instruction are almost universally adopted, in our laboratories for the teach- ing of practical physiology, in the privacy of our studies when at work with the microscope, Bennett still lives. His career of untiring industry, of ardent application to his professorial work, were the characteristic features of his nature. Years will pass away before we can properly estimate the good work John Hughes Bennett did in the Edinburgh School. I am now brought from the past to the future. What is the future of our School ? To be successful we must go forwards. Our motto must be 'Excelsior;' and the new
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