Anniversary address to the New York Medical and Surgical Society / by F. Campbell Stewart.

  • Stewart, F. Campbell (Ferdinand Campbell), 1815-1899
Date:
1846
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    II. GREAT BRITAIN. [The following regulations are extracted from the last circular of the Edinburgh Univeriity, and from the Student's Guide, published in Edinburgh and London.] University of Edinburgh.— Statutes of the University of Edinburgh relative to the Degree of M. i).—Sect. I. No one shall be admitted to the exami- nations for the degree of doctor of medicine who has not been engaged in medical study for four years, during at least six months of each, either in the University of Edinburgh, or in some other University where the degree of M.D. is given ; unless, in addition to three Anni Medici in an University, he has attended, during at least six winter months, the medical or surgical practice of a general hospital, which ac- commodates at least eighty patients, and during the same period, a course of prac- tical anatomy ; in which case three years of University study will be admitted. Sect. II. No one shall be admitted to the examinations for the degree of Doctor who has not given sufficient evidence,— 1. That he has studied, once at least, each of the following departments of medical science, under professors of medicine in this or in some other university, as already defined, viz.:—Anatomy ; chemistry ; materia medica and pharmacy ; insti- tutes of medicine; practice of medicine; surgery; midwifery, and the diseases peculiar to women and children ; general pathology; practical anatomy (unless it has been attended in the year of extra-academical study allowed by Sect. I.)—during courses of six months. Clinical medicine, that is, the treatment of patients in a public hospital, under a professor of medicine, by whom lectures on the cases are given—during a course of six months, or two courses of three months. Clinical surgery ; medical jurisprudence ; botany ; natural history, including zoology—during a course of at least three months. 2. That in each year of his academical studies in medicine, he has attended at least two of the six months' courses of lectures above specified, or one of these and two of the three months' courses. 3. That, besides the course of clinical medicine already prescribed, he has attended, for at least six months of another year, the medical or surgical practice of a general hospital, either at Edinburgh or elsewhere, which accommodates not fewer than eighty patients. 4. That he has attended for at least six months, by apprenticeship or otherwise, the art of compounding and dispensing drugs at the laboratory of a hospital, dispen- sary, member of a surgical college or faculty, licentiate of the London or Dublin Society of Apothecaries, or a professional chemist and druggist. 5. That he has attended for at least six months, by apprenticeship or otherwise, the out-practice of a hospital, or the practice of a dispensary, or that of a physician, surgeon, or member of the London or Dublin Society of Apothecaries. Sect. III. No one shall obtain the degree of doctor who has not studied, in the manner already prescribed, for at least one year previous to his graduation in the University of Edinburgh. Sect. IV. Every candidate for the degree in medicine must deliver, before the 24th of March of the year in which he proposes to graduate, to the dean of the facultjr of medicine,— First. A declaration, in his own hand-writing, that he is twenty-one years of age, or will be so before the day of graduation ; and that he will not be then under articles of apprenticeship to any surgeon or other master. Secondly. A statement of his studies, as well in literature and philosophy as in medicine, accompanied with proper certificates. Thirdly. A medical dissertation composed by himself, in Latin or English; to be perused by a professor, and subject to his approval. Sect. V. Before a candidate be examined in medicine, the medical faculty shall ascertain, by examination, that he possesses a competent knowledge of the Latin lan- guage. Sect. VI. If the faculty be satisfied on this point, they shall proceed to examine him, either viva voce, or in writing; first, on anatomy, chemistry, botany, institutes of medicine, and natural history bearing chiefly on zoology ; and, secondly, on ma- teria medica, pathology, practice of medicine, surgery, midwifery, and medical juris- prudence. Sect. VII. Students who profess themselves ready to submit to an examination on the first division of these subjects, at the end of the third year of their studies, shall be admitted to it at that time. Sect. VIII. If any one, at these private examinations, be found unqualified for