Views on some social subjects / by Sir Dyce Duckworth, bt.

  • Dyce Duckworth
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[1915]
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Credit: Views on some social subjects / by Sir Dyce Duckworth, bt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    magna, includes men who would bring distinc¬ tion and lustre to any great School of Medicine. My duty to-day is not the first one which I have performed in this academic centre. Ten years ago I had the honour to hold the office of an Examiner in Medicine here, when I was associated first with that highly gifted man, Professor John Morgan, and later with his distinguished successor, Dr. Dreschfeld. Since that time, I have been closely associated in the General Medical Council with one of the best physicians in recent years in this city, the late Dr. Leech, whose loss is so widely felt and deplored. The traditions of this Faculty may be reckoned few, so far as time is concerned— some thirty years—but they are of the best. The Royal Manchester School of Medicine, however, now incorporated here, has, I find, no fewer than a hundred and sixteen years be¬ hind it, so that the Faculty has thus absorbed all the traditions of medicine and surgery which this city affords. It may therefore goMorward with certainty to add fruitfully to them. I can hardly address you here and now without referring to what is surely a vexed question at the present time respecting the proposal to break the bonds which unite you academically with the affiliated Colleges of Liver¬ pool and Leeds. Early memories recall to me an abiding rivalry between this and my native city, a rivalry always honourable, though warm with a true Lancashire intensity. I stand here