Remarks by the Professor of Surgery on a communication from the Senatus Academicus to the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council of the City of Edinburgh, addressed to the College Committee / [John W. Turner].

  • Turner, John William, 1790-1836.
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[1831]
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Credit: Remarks by the Professor of Surgery on a communication from the Senatus Academicus to the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council of the City of Edinburgh, addressed to the College Committee / [John W. Turner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sion, by the Professor of Anatomy and Surgery, of his ob¬ jections to the institution of a Professorship of Surgery, on the ground of its interference with, what he conceived to be, his rights and interests; and I have reason to know, that, before the institution of the Professorship, and the appointment of a Professor of Surgery, a memorial on this subject, from the Professor of Anatomy and Surgery, had been received and considered by His Majesty’s Govern¬ ment. I conceive that it will not be difficult to shew, that, in point of fact, the institution of a separate Professorship of Surgery does not interfere with the rights or interests of the Professor of Anatomy and Surgery. It must be observed that this Professor does not hold two commissions, one as Professor of Anatomy, and the other as Professor of Sur¬ gery ; but that, in the year 1777, the Surgery was added by the Patrons of this University to the original commission of the Professor of Anatomy, and the two branches joined in one commission. This addition was made on the re¬ presentation of the late Dr Monro and the Medical Fa¬ culty, that the Anatomy and Surgery had been taught yearly in one connected course of Demonstrations and Lectures, comprehending Surgery with Anatomy; and it was done notwithstanding the opposition of the Royal College of Surgeons, who were desirous, even at that time, that a separate Professorship of Surgery should be esta¬ blished, and objected to the junction of the Surgery with the Anatomy, as I find from their Minutes, and from the a 2