Minutes of evidence taken by the Royal Commissioners appointed to consider the draft charter for the proposed Gresham University in London ... / presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty.
- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.
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- 1894
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Credit: Minutes of evidence taken by the Royal Commissioners appointed to consider the draft charter for the proposed Gresham University in London ... / presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![took out further classes, they would be ineligible to become candidates for degrees, as it was necessary for graduation that a student should have studied in one of the constituent colleges of the new University, and the above hospitals could not become colleges till after the granting of the Charter. Our Association is of opinion that there is a great want felt by many members of the profession in this country, who from various causes have been unable to give the necessary time during their professional edu- cation to study for a medical degree to have the means afforded them of doing this after they are settled in practice by passing standard examinations for that pur- pose ; and they feel sure that it is for the good of the profession and the public at large that this spirit should he encouraged among the general practitioners of the countrj-, and, further, that if this were so there would not be the present exodus to foreign Universities, a fact in itself discreditable to our present system, and of which the very existence of our Association, with its large membership, is an ample proof. If, then, it should be thought necessary to limit the candidates for the Gresham Degree to those who have studied at one of the constituent colleges of the Univer- Appendix sity, at least permit registered practitioners, who were No. 58. students at the same institutions before they became Papers Nos. colleges of a University, to become candidates for tbe i4> 15, and ]6. medical degrees, for if this should not be allowed the * older practitioners might fairly urge they are subjected to great injustice, for if the proposed University be as successful, as we would all wish it might be, the prac- titioner of the future will naturally be a Doctor of Medicine, and an invidious distinction is likely to be caused between these and the older class of practitioners. Trusting your Honourable Commission will take this matter into consideration, We are, &c. (Signed) D. S. Skinner. Chairman. Major Greenwood, Secretary. J. Leybourn Goddard, Esq., Secretary, Gresham University Commission. PAPER No. 15. Letter from the British Homoeopathic Society. To Her Majesty's Commissioners for inquiring into the establishment of a Teaching University for London. My Lords and Gentlemen, The British Homoeopathic Society, founded in 1844 by the late Dr. Quin, and constituting the main organization, in this Kingdom, of medical men practis- ing homujopathically, has appointed us, the under- signed, a committee for the purpose of opening com- munications with your honourable body. Our object is that some provision should be made in the proposed University for the teaching of the medical system which we represent. We urge the desirableness of such a course on the following grounds:— 1. A University, as its name implies, should embrace every branch of actual knowledge ; aad as the present one will (at least in the first instance) kave a prepon- derance of medical students, it is important that no living chapter in the history of medicine should be omitted from its course of instruction. That the homoeopathic method occupies such a position is a plain matter of fact. It looks back upon nearly a century of existence. It has an extensive literature. It is practised in every civilized country of the old and new worlds, and probably not less than 12,000 qualified medical men avowedly adopt it as their guide. It has numerous hospitals, dispensaries, societies, journals devoted to its administration and propagation. An unfortunate prejudice, incurred at the outset of its career, still hinders the medical authorities from recognising it as a legitimate mode of practice, and allowing their Btudents to receive the benefit of it, whatever this may be. It seems to us that the State, rising superior to differences of opinion, should recog- nise facts and provide for their being studied and taught in such a University as it is now proposed to establish. We ask that, in its Charter, liberty should be given for the establishment and endowment there, of professor- ships of any genuine branch of human knowledge, among which, to avoid possible hindrances from the prejudice we have mentioned, homoeopathy should be instanced by name. There have been such Chairs in times past at the Sorbonne and at Leipsig ; there is one now in Buda-Pesth; and a serious movement is going on for establishing them in the State Universities of Belgium. 2. There are some hundreds of thousands of Her Majesty's subjects in this kingdom who habitually resort to homoeopathic treatment when they are ill. Whether they are mistaken or not in this choice, they have a right to ask that provision shall be made for training practitioners in the system of medicine they prefer, and that they shall have some means of recog- nising those who have received such training. This boon they cannot receive from private efforts. Students have a certain curriculum through which they must pass to enter the portals of the profession. While in statu pwpillari they have no time for anything else; and when once qualified they are impatient at once to enter upon practice and obtain its emoluments. It is, therefore, exceedingly difficult to get them to attend upon the teaching of the homiropathic method unless this is in some way blended with their ordinary studies. In the United State* such end is attained by the estab- lishment of Honx-oopathic Colleges, where all the teachers are disciples of the system, and their instruc- tion is coloured accordingly. We do not advocate such a plan here. We would rather follow such a course as that adopted in the University of the State of Michigan. There professorships of Materia Medica and of the Practice of Medicine exist, officered by avowed homceo- pathists, and the students of the University are at liberty to take these courses of their curriculum at the homoeopathic chairs, and to be examined for their degree in the subjects taught from them by like-minded examiners. We would suggest that the British Homoeopathic Society be invited to make the appoint- ments to such professorships and examinerships, as it would best know who were qualified for the posts. (Signed) C. Knox Shaw, President, British Homoeopathic Society. John C. Blackley, Hon. Sec. Stephen Yeldham. B. E. Dudgeon, Treasurer. Richard Hughes. London Homoeopathic Hospital, Great Ormond Street, W.C., June 1892. PAPER No. 16. {See Evidence of Professor Memorandum as to Proposed Law Department oi' University College, Liverpool. Objects. 1. The Liverpool Board of Legal Studies was estab- lished in the year 1886 for the encouragement of legal studies in Liverpool by the institution and management of law lectures and classes, the conduct- ing of examinations, the granting of exhibitions and «' prizes, and such other means as might from time to o 8221)1). Jenks. Question 24,448.) time be considered expedient. It was constituted of representatives of the Incorporated Law Society of Liverpool, of University College, Liverpool, and of the Liverpool Law Students' Association. It is proposed to establish a law faculty in University College, Liverpool, in order to carry out the above objects more systematically and completely, by bring- ing the study of law into close connexion with the other studies of the College, and by affording oppor- tunities for the study of jurisprudence and kindred T](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24749436_1373.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
