A letter from Dr. Dickson to his medical brethren, relative to the School of Physic in this kingdom / [Stephen Dickson].

  • Dickson, Stephen
Date:
1795
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Credit: A letter from Dr. Dickson to his medical brethren, relative to the School of Physic in this kingdom / [Stephen Dickson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C 5° ]' univerfity, of anatomy and chirurgery, of botany, and of chymiftry ; on the foundation of Sir P. Dun, of the inftitutes of medicine, of the prac- tice of medicine, of materia medica and phar- macy, of natural hiftory, and whenever the col- lege of phyficians think fit, and the funds allow, of midwifery. Clinical lectures alfo are directed to be given by the feveral profeffors on both foun- dations alternately. It matters not upon what foundation a profef- forfhip is eftablifhed, provided it be adequately fupported. Of the profeffors on the foundation of the univerfity, the anatomift and the ehymift poffefs the neceffary apparatus for carrying on their lectures with effeft ; but the botanift is ftill deftitute of the means of demonftrating the ftruc- ture, growth, and charters of vegetables. Yet the cultivation of this elegant and ufeful fcience is a duty incumbent on the univerfity, and the pro- vifions for this purpofe, which they have fo fine an opportunity of eflablifhing under the aufpices of the prefent profeffor, would form a lading monument to their honour. Perhaps a few words in explanation of this iubject may not be thrown away. The fcience of botany comprifes two objects, the phyfiology and the arrangements of plants. The laws by which nature governs the vegetable kingdom, it is the province of the botanical phi- lofopher to difcover from the phenomena which difclofe