A letter on the future location of the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the University Hospital / by Frederic S. Lee and Frank H. Pike.

  • Lee, Frederic S. (Frederic Schiller), 1859-1939.
Date:
[1913?]
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Credit: A letter on the future location of the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the University Hospital / by Frederic S. Lee and Frank H. Pike. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    minded; he ought to take his social position among the cultured men of the nation. In order that our conviction of the benefits of intimate asso- ciation between the school of medicine and the rest of the uni- versity may not appear to be limited to our- Views of Medi- selves alone, we have asked the opinion of a cal Leaders of very few of the leaders in scientific medicine Great Britain in England and America, and have permission to quote them here. Dr. C. S. Sherrington, Holt professor of physiology In the University of Liverpool, and one of the foremost British leaders In the medical sciences, writes as follows: The question It [our letter] asks regarding the relative ad- vantages to a school of medicine of having close propinquity to the rest of the university of which It Is a part seems to me to admit of a very clear answer. If one regards the school In its aspect as a place for the scientific study of disease with a view to the instruction of students and to the furthering of knowl- edge by research and discovery, the school undoubtedly benefits greatly from the opportunities for close contact with the other scientific schools of the university, both those of the pure sci- ences and those of the applied, but quite especially the former. This Is surely the meaning of the advent of a new era In medi- cine when a university pure chemist (Pasteur) stepped over his chair's frontiers, in the Interests of medicine; or, to take surgery, when Lister turned to following Pasteur's biochemical w^ork with a view to improving his own ward-results. Also, may we not feel that a school of medicine in its turn will contribute something to the breadth and earnestness with which Its sister schools of study proceed In the university, If by daily Intercourse with them through Its staff and students its own aims and difficulties and sympathies are known and recog- nized to be not ungermane to the rest? Further, I have myself long been convinced that one of the first duties of every university, and quite especially of every large university, is to leave no means unused for bringing to- gether In their work as well as In their play all sorts and condi- tions of their students. It is. In my opinion, of the highest good to a student that he should have mixed with students outside as well as within his own particular 'Fach.' It gives breadth of character as well as breadth of knowledge. Only by providing