The Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons under the Medical Act : the introductory address at Surgeons' Hall, session 1861-62 / by John Struthers.
- John Struthers
- Date:
- 1861
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Credit: The Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons under the Medical Act : the introductory address at Surgeons' Hall, session 1861-62 / by John Struthers. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![is concerned, these sciences must always be closely allied, but no one now will question that each is deserving of being made the subject of a separate course; and the advantage of requiring a teacher to give his undivided attention to the teaching of one important branch is evident. The Hall of the College in which most of these events took place was situated in the Square to which it gave the name. The part of the old Hall which still remains is now occupied as an hospital in connection with the Eoyal Infirmary. Surgeons' Square was then and afterwards the favourite locality of the various lecture-rooms of the Medical School; among others, the famous theatres of Barclay and Knox, and of the old Hall of the Eoyal Medical Society, the mention of which, and of the old Square, will recall many memories to many members of the pro- fession. Almost the whole of the old Square is now occupied by the recent extension of the Surgical Hospital and its a])pendages; and most of the lecture-rooms have left the locality of the old Hall for that of the new. The present Hall, beside which we are now met, was com- pleted in 1832, at an expense to the College of L.20,000. The additional accommodation was required chiefly for the arrange- ment and due exhibition of the Museum. The collection in the first room was bequeathed to the College by the late Dr John Barclay. It embraces Human and Comparative Anatomy, and is especially rich in the skeletons of the mammalia. The galleries above contain the birds reptiles and fishes of the Barclay collec- tion. It is the product of the talent and industry of one to whom the Edinburgh School owes much. As his biographer says inheriting nothing from his parents except a sound constitu- tion, a vigorous mind, and a virtuous education, trained for another profession but becoming enamoured of science, he com- menced to lecture at the age of 37; taught Anatomy to large classes of students for twenty-eight years, wrote at the same time his works on Muscular Motion, on the Arteries, on a New Ana-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22323223_0043.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
