Annual report of the Medical College of Bengal : fifteenth year, session 1849-50 / under the immediate control and superintendence of the Council of Education.
- Medical College of Bengal
- Date:
- 1850
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical College of Bengal : fifteenth year, session 1849-50 / under the immediate control and superintendence of the Council of Education. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![of Medicine again at the disposal of Government. Professor Webb then intimated his readiness to enter at once upon the proposed duty, and solicited permission to hold it, even for six months, to enable him to complete his work on Indian Pathology. This request was sanctioned: Mr. Webb was appointed to conduct the duties of the chair of Medicine until the opening of the next session, Dr. Edward Goodeve was placed in charge of the office of Professor of Descriptive and Surgical Anatomy, and Dr. Mouat was directed to deliver the course of lectures on Medical Jurisprudence then about to commence. The permanent arrangements will take effect from the loth of June 1850. In January last, Dr. PI. IT. Goodeve obtained leave of ab- sence for two years on medical certificate, and Dr. Duncan Stewart was appointed to officiate as Professor of Midwifery. In December 1849, Dr. Gopal Chunder Seal was placed at the disposal of the Board of Administration for the Punjaub, and Sub-assistant Prosuno Coomar Mittre, who formerly held the office, was appointed to succeed him as Resident Surgeon of the Female and Lying-in Hospital. In April last, the Honorable President of the Council of Edu- cation suggested that it would ofr1roSacyiS°onf be desirable to profit by Dr. the Pupils of the iviedi- Mouat s visit to Madras to at- cal Schools of Bengal, tempt to institute a comparison Madras and Bombay. of the proficiency 0f the raeclical students at the two Presidencies, by tests to be agreed on by him in conference with the medical authorities at Madras, subject to the approval of the Council. Mr. Bethune, at the same time, intimated his readiness to give two medals to be so competed for; a gold medal to the most proficient student of the two Presidencies, and a silver medal to the best student of the unsuccessful Presidency. The Council requested Dr. Mouat to endeavour to induce the medical authorities of Madras to concur in the proposed competition. Upon his return from Madras, Dr. Mouat reported that he had visited the Madras Medical School, which he found in a much higher state of organization and efficiency than when lie reported upon it in 1845; that he had mentioned the proposal of the Honorable President to Professor Key and to the Honorable D. Eliott, and that it had been favorably received, although no plan of carrying it into effect had then been determined on. [C] ft](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24766835_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
