Appeal to the University Court of the University of Glasgow / by Professor Macleod ; together with a narrative of the circumstances which led to said appeal.

  • MacLeod, George H. B., Sir (George Husband Baird), 1828-1892.
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[1878]
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Credit: Appeal to the University Court of the University of Glasgow / by Professor Macleod ; together with a narrative of the circumstances which led to said appeal. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    eleven voted for the amendment, and eight for the motion, and the amendment was accordingly declared carried. It may perhaps be necessary to state that by the regulations of the Western Infirmary, to which all the medical officei-s are subject, a student totally unconnected with the University has got the same right as a matriculated student of the University to em'ol in the class of any teacher. It is quite beyond the power of the Clinical Professors, or any of the teachers, to reject such a student. I sub- mitted to the Clerk of Senate an official statement to that effect from the hospital secretary. The next phase of the controversy arose in connection with the intimation of the different classes in the Calendar and advertisements. In the Calendar for the session 1873-4 (before the appointment of the Clinical Professors) Clinical Medicine and Surgery were intimated in the Calendar, and therefore under authority of the University as being taught by the Physicians and Surgeons of the Poyal Infirmary. In that of 1874-5, i.e., the first session the new Professors taught, the terms of the intimation were altered to Physicians and Surgeons of the Western and Koyal Infirmaries. In that of 1875-6, the intima- tion regarding Clinical Surgery was taught by Dr. G. Buchanan and the other Surgeons of the Western and Poyal Infirmaries. In 1876-7, Dr. G. Buchanan's name appears alone, but in a foot note it is said, *' The clinical lectures of the other Physicians and Surgeons of the Western and Royal Infirmaries are accepted by the University Court as qualifying for graduation. Since then various attempts have been made to have the foot-note deleted. Most of these successive changes were made after discussions in the Medical Paculty, in which Dr. Gairdner and I, for the sake of peace, had gradually yielded everything that we thought possible or reason- able to the desire for official precedence, or rather exclusive recogni- tion, on the part of the Clinical Professors. On April 16th, 1877, the following minute of Senate appears — The Report [of the Calendar Committee] was approved, and the committee were instnicted to delete the note on page 45 of the Calendar 1876-7 [given above] in reference to clinical teaching. This was done without either Dr. Gairdner or myself hearing a word about it, as we were absent from that meeting, and this matter, so important to us, was carried out without giving us any informa- tion about it, or any statement appearing in the billet calling the meeting, by which any one could guess what was going to be done;
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