Report of proceedings at the distribution of prizes in St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, Wednesday, May 20th, 1857 / with the address delivered by Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth.

  • Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baronet
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[1857]
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Credit: Report of proceedings at the distribution of prizes in St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, Wednesday, May 20th, 1857 / with the address delivered by Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    share—of the labour of elevating the moral and profes- sional status of the practitioner of medicine ? At the opening of this School, several pupils of the Hospital who had partly completed their attendance on lectures in another institution joined us, and finished their education here. It gives the greatest satisfaction to the Committee to call attention to the fact that of those gentlemen, two have been appointed in the past year to positions of great practical importance in the well-working of a Medical School, viz., Mr. George Green Gascoyen to the Demonstratorship of Anatomy, and Mr. Meller to the Honorary Curatorship of the Museum. The object of the Committee in making this statement is to impress upon the minds of the students of St. Mary’s the fact that the steady, conscientious, and willing discharge of appointed duty in the School and Hospital will undoubtedly ensure a recognition, both in the hearty support and good feeling of the staff and teachers, as well as the more substantial honor of such appointments; that we shall always main- tain the principle of seeking merit amongst our own pupils rather than abroad, regarding it as one of the best and most legitimate incentives which we can hold out to them to work. Such are our causes and sources of congratulation; but we have those of regret also. We are still wanting in that brilliant attraction to the medical student of the present day—Scholarships. They tell with great force upon the prospectuses of the wealthy schools of this metropolis. We simply cannot afford them yet. But to record this fact without explanation would be to do an injustice to the liberality of the governing body of the Hospital and to ourselves. The truth is, that far more than the money- value of any Scholarship in London is given without cost
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