Remarks upon medical organization and reform (foreign and English) / by Edwin Lee ; with an appendix.

  • Edwin Lee
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1846
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    provements of modern times in medical science; and even now their medical curicula are very defective.” The same gentleman further remarks of the College of Physicians, “ Its general policy seems always to have been such as to ensure a high degree of learning, rather than to supply the public with medical practitioners proportionate to its necessities.”* The Medical Gazette, in a late number, referring to a document (moved for by Mr. Wakley in the House of Com¬ mons,) showing the number of candidates examined, and the diplomas granted by the universities and colleges of the United Kingdom during three years ending 1844, observes, “ These returns show how little the two universities are adapted for medical tuition, or for conferring the privileges of medical practice. In the three years the degree of doctor of medicine was conferred at Cambridge on ten persons, and licences to practise to bachelors of medicine to nine persons, at Oxford there were in three years six candidates for the diploma, and the whole of them obtained it; and eight can¬ didates for a licence to practise, which was granted to seven.”-]- As respects the admission of licentiates to the fellowship, much greater facilities have been latterly afforded, and various other alterations of a liberal tendency were proposed to be effected by the late bill; with reference to these the College of Physicians transmitted a memorial to the government, the remarks upon which by the above-named medical journal, which is generally considered not to be adverse to the exist¬ ing institutions, will be found in the Appendix. 1 will further avail myself of the remarks of Mr. Kennedy upon the constitution of the London College of Surgeons, having, before extracting so largely from his pages, thought it right to ascertain that he did not object to my so doing. * Lucius on Medical Reform. 4 “ No bodies have been dissected at Oxford for some years. One body was dissected at Cambridge in Medical Almanack for 1837.