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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    9811. In the Hospital ?—If they happen to be surgeons to the Infirmary, 9812. It depends upon that accident?—It does. 9813. Then if they were not surgeons to the Infirmary, and your chair had not been instituted, would there be no teaching of clinical surgery at all Not in connection with the University. 9814. That would be one of the branches that students would be obliged to take extra-murally?—Yes; as it was be/ore the foundation of the clinical chairs. 9815. Dr. Muir.—Are you a surgeon of the Infirmary too?—Yes. 9816. That is quite independent of the University?—It is not quite independent of the University. 9817. The Chairman—But you are appointed by a different body, are you not ]—Yes; but there is in the Constitution of the Infirmary a clause by which the managers agree to provide for the clinical teaching of the Professor (sic) in the University. 9818. But before your chair was instituted, clinical teaching was sometimes given by the Professor of Systematic Surgery, who in that case would have to teach in the Infirmary ?—Yes ; but the Infirmary in regard to which that charter or condition existed was not then built. 9819. You are speaking of the charter of the new Infirmary ?—Yes. 9820. Therefore by that clause in the charter ample provision is made for clinical teaching in connection with the University, from the fact that the University professor {sic) must be made by them a clinical teacher 1—Yes, 9821. Mr. Campbell.—There are other clinical teachers in the Infirmary as well as professors 1—Yes. 9822. What are the precise terms of the constitution of the Infirmary with regard to the professors 1—The clause is as follows :— 'The managers shall annually elect such medical officers as may be required for the efficient treatment of the patients in the Western Infirmary, it being understood that such reasonable provision as is deemed necessary by the Senatus of the University of Glasgow and the Managers shall be made for the pi'ofessors of the University engaged in clinical instruction.' No. 3, page 285. 9834. The Chairman.—What advantage do you anticipate from clinical teaching being adopted by different men from those who teach
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