University of Melbourne Medical School jubilee 1914.

  • University of Melbourne. Medical School
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[1914]
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Credit: University of Melbourne Medical School jubilee 1914. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    was promoted to the Chair of Medicine, and John Williams, M.D. Edin., M.R.C.S. Eng., succeeded Dr. Bird as Lecturer on Materia Medica, Medical Botany and Elementary Therapeutics. Dr. Williams had been formerly practising in Sudbury (Suffolk) and in London, and for some time in Chicago. He was subsequently Resident Physician, Physician to Outpatients and Physician to1 Inpatients at the Melbourne Hospital. He may fairly be described as the introducer of thorough clinical teaching in the Medical Wards of the Melbourne Hospital, and his example has been a potent influence in the School. This year the University suffered a great loss in the death by accident of Mr. F. J. Pirani. Mr. H. M. Andrew, formerly headmaster of Wesley College and a member of the Council, succeeded him as Lecturer on Logic and Natural Philosophy. The Council, after conference with the Faculty, found itself unable to create a Professorship of Anatomy and Pathology, and on December 22nd, 1881, Dr. Allen was elected Lecturer on these subjects, still retaining the offices of Demonstrator of Anatomy in the University and of Pathologist to the Melbourne Hospital. Professor Halford’s work was defined as already described in the second and third years, practical work to be conducted in each year though not yet compulsory. As there was no physiological laboratory, it was arranged that practical demonstrations should be given in the Chemistry laboratory. In June, 1882, John David Thomas, M.D. Melb., was appointed whole-time Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy, and Mr. John Kirkland, who had acted for many years as unrecognised assistant to his father, was appointed Assistant in the laboratories of Chemistry and Physiology. In October, statutory pro- vision was made for five new Professorships, including Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and Descriptive and Surgical Anatomy and Pathology. The Faculty withdrew its first schedule of new Regula- tions, and substituted others which were passed by Council and Senate in December, 1882. Under the new scheme, Natural Philosophy was still alternative with Greek and Latin in the first year ; as no separate course of Biology was available, the Botany of the first year and the Comparative Anatomy and Zoology of the second year remained com- pulsory. The one course of Anatomy was still attended twice in the second and third years. Practical Pharmacy was placed in the third year, instead of the second or third. Physiological Chemistry and Histology came in the second year, Physiology with practical work in the third year, and Pathology in the fourth. The examination in Obstetric Medicine was retained in the fourth year, but the minimum number of labours to be attended was increased from twelve to twenty.
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