Third report from the Select Committee on Medical Registration and Medical Law amendment : together with the minutes of evidence and appendix.

  • Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Medical Registration and Medical Law Amendment.
Date:
1848
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    5686. Colonel Mure.] The result of your answers to these last questions is, Sir D. Brewster, that you are not aware, in fact, of any diploma having been granted by the Uni- K-n-> versity of St. Andrew’s knowingly or carelessly to a person whom they have had LL-D'’F'K'Sb'L'&1 reason to believe not to have had a real qualification ?—No, certainly not in any 25 Ju|y lg4g case. 5687. There is always an intention that those persons who receive the diploma shall be qualified persons ?—Certainly. 5688. Chairman.] In the case put, did A. B. who stood the examination, suc- ceed from his competency to stand the examination?—Yes. 5689. By going through it?—Yes. 5690. The truth is that he personated C. D. ?—Yes. I have brought a list of the students attending the anatomy and chemistry classes, which it may be important to put in. This is a list of students from 1840-41 to 1847-48 in ana- tomy ; in 1840-41 there was no anatomy class, and in that session 12 attended the chemistry class. [The following Paper was handed in:] STUDENTS attending Anatomy and Chemistry Classes. ANATOMY. CHEMISTRY. 1840-41 --------- 12 6 21 5 15 1843-44 10 19 1844-45 8 16 8 23 1846-47 --------- 9 2,5 1847-48 10 18 Average in Seven and Eight Years - - - 8 00 5691. Mr. Hamilton.] Have they got in anatomy an opportunity of dissecting or dealing with subjects?—No, I believe there has never been a subject dissected at St. Andrew’s ; a real subject. 5692. Colonel Mure.'] Does this one year of anatomy and chemistry qualify the student for a degree ?—Only in combination with other qualifications. 5693. Chairman.] That is only the annus medicus, you take that as one year of medical instruction ?—Yes. 5694. And you take that as a sufficient qualification for the candidate in che- mistry and anatomy?—Yes, for one year’s attendance. 5695. In the class of anatomy is there any actual dissection ?—There is dis- section, but, I believe, not of a complete subject. 5696. What do you dissect ?—Portions of subjects that have been kept in spirits. 5697. Is there any entire subject dissected ?—I believe not. Dr. Reid has been asked the same question by the Royal Commissioners, and here is his answer. The question put to him was this: “Were any medical students at all attending your class of anatomy? There were two this year out of the five.” 5698. Colonel Mure.] Do you mean that they do not actually attend?—They are students in divinity, who wish only for general information, many of them. “ There were two this year out of the five.—Do you get a sufficient supply of subjects for dissection? No; there is great difficulty in getting subjects.—Can you say what propor- tion of the eight students last year were medical ? I should think not above two who are likely to follow the profession. One of them has, to my knowledge, been in Edinburgh this last session, prosecuting his medical studies.—Can you state the emoluments you have drawn from your class during the two years you have lectured ? The average emoluments which I have derived from my professorship, for the two years I have held it, is 283?. This includes salary, diet money, Government allowance, fees for medical degrees, and class fees ? —Have you had any dissections? I have hitherto been enabled to give a complete course of descriptive anatomy; but I do not think it is possible to go on with it any length of time, from the difficulty of procuring a supply of subjects. I was able, from having been connected for a number of years with anatomical rooms, &c., to lay past a number of wet preparations kept in spirits, and those I have been using. That supply will soon become exhausted, and there would be great difficulty in getting it renewed. I went to Dundee for the purpose of endeavouring to arrange with the managers of the infirmary to get an unclaimed body occa- sionally, but such obstacles are thrown in the way that I have given up all hopes of suc- ceeding.—Have no bodies ever been brought to St. Andrew’s? None.—Can you teach 702. r r 3 anatomy