On the resources of King's College, London, for medical education : being the lecture delivered at the opening of the medical classes in that institution on the 1st of October, 1852 / by Robert Bentley Todd.
- Robert Bentley Todd
- Date:
- 1852
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On the resources of King's College, London, for medical education : being the lecture delivered at the opening of the medical classes in that institution on the 1st of October, 1852 / by Robert Bentley Todd. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![students the advantages of direct teaching by tutorial I instruction; a medical tutor has been appointed in the College; and although his Lectures were at first des¬ tined only for the resident student, they are now open i to all; and all may, from the earhest period of i their career, receive his assistance; and those who I avail themselves of his instruction early, may be I saved from the necessity of undergoing, at a later ] period of their career, a process of cramming (too often pursued of necessity), which is quite as un¬ favourable to the healthy nourishment of the mind, I and as unlikely to store it with good and sound knowledge, as is an analogous process of cramming to promote a healthy state of the bodily frame. But of all the changes which have been effected in our College within the last fifteen years, the most valu¬ able and important, and that which has been accom- phshed at the greatest cost of money and exertion, is the establishment of a Clinical Hospital in connexion with the College. Let me observe that by a Clinical Hospital I mean one in which (whUe every attention is paid to the care and comfort of the patients,) the fullest facilities are afforded to the medical students in attendance for observing and watching disease, and obtaining in¬ struction in the methods of investigating it, and in the means of diagnosis and of treatment, and in which every opportunity is taken to investigate the causes and the nature of the various maladies and accidents which](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30561061_0009.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
