Correspondence and statements regarding the teaching of clinical medicine in the University of Edinburgh, 1855-1857 : with a sequel / by T. Laycock.
- Thomas Laycock
- Date:
- 1857
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Correspondence and statements regarding the teaching of clinical medicine in the University of Edinburgh, 1855-1857 : with a sequel / by T. Laycock. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![‘2. That they sought to set up two competing lecturers within the University, who were to lecture separately, simultaneously, and con¬ tinuously during nine successive months. 3. That they did all this without my concurrence, as one of the two Professors specially concerned. But Dr. Christison affirms that, in carrying out their plans, the Faculty and Senate reverted to the “ customary rotation prior to 1846. They introduced no new arrangement^ Hence, if never before in the history of the University, and more especially during that period specifically mentioned, were “ two competing lecturers set up to lecture separately, simultaneously, and continuously for nine suc¬ cessive months”—Dr. Christison distinctly denies the truth of both my first and second allegations. Dr. Christison affirms that “ the Programme of lectures for this Winter Session was published in conformity with an arrangement ” to which Dr. Laycock acceded; that “the Medical Faculty showed that their minutes contained a record of his concurrence in July last.” Dr. Bennett affirms, in reference to the same “ arrangement,” that it was “ finally agreed to by Dr. Laycock and myself, that in future we were to lecture separately and simultaneously, wdth independent interests.” Both Dr. Christison and Dr. Bennett, therefore, distinctly contradict my third allegation, that the arrangements of the Medical Faculty were carried out without my concurrence. Dr. Bennett further asserts that I entered into a “ definite agree¬ ment” to surrender the privileges and emoluments of which the pro¬ ceedings of the Medical Faculty deprived me, and especially that, as an equivalent for not lecturing nexUsummer, the clinical wards were con¬ ceded to me “ during the [last] autumn, with an entire sixth of the winter fees” of last [winter] session. Mere hardihood of assertion is not proof; and as I am under the necessity of meeting these painful assertions of my colleagues with an emphatic denial, I will examine the evidence adduced by Dr. Christi¬ son and Dr. Bennett in proof of their accuracy. And I may be per¬ mitted to add, that charges so gravely involving the character of a colleague ought only in common justice to have been made on evidence transparently clear and conclusive, or, at the very least, independent of any quibbling or mental reservation. The Patrons shall be enabled to judge for themselves whether such is the true character of the evi¬ dence adduced.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30563240_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
