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

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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$• V19^7 average attendance of the MUitary class residing in the College, was 108-8 if Statement of the number of bodies brought to the College for dissection and operations during the winter session of 1849-50. In November, 101 „ December, ,, ,, ] *j\ Dissections. „ January, ]gg „ February, ' 118 „ March, 62 Total,.... 623 Number of bodies dissected, 1%J „ used for operations, .. .. 109 „ used in tbe examinations,.. .. 32 „ of which no use was made, ) oarL in consequence of rapid putrefaction, .. .. | ~ - Total, .. ..623 Expenses of The cost of the Establishment from the Institution. January to December 1849, was G3.626 6 0 The charges of the Ceylon pupils,* 1,301 3 1 Stipends to students, 4,197 9 2 Chemical Department, 434 0 9 Museum and Dissecting Departments, 1,700 1 3 Medical College ditto, 3,004 0 10 Book Allowance, 840 0 0 Total Rupees, 75,103 5 1 The session of the Medical College for 1849-50 was opened at 5 p. m. on Friday, the loth of June, sioneof11849-50.eS 111 tne Presence °f the Council of Edu- cation and a numerous audience, by Mr. R. O'Shaughnessy, the Professor of Surgeiy, to whom had been assigned the duty of giving the general intro- ductory lecture. The discourse delivered by this gentleman contained a brief epitome of the history of surgery from the earliest ages to the present time, with special remarks upon the contrast afforded in its practice by the ancient and modern Hindus, and the facilities presented in the Medical College for obtaining a complete professional education. Among the pro- minent points of interest referred to, were the extraordinary success of some of the graduates of the College in the per- formance of the formidable operation of lithotomy, and the valuable results which had followed the introduction of chlo- roform into the practice of surgery. * Paid by the Ceylon Government.$