Unto the General Council of Medical Education and Registration, the memorial of William Mackenzie.

  • Mackenzie, William, 1791-1868.
Date:
[1859]
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Credit: Unto the General Council of Medical Education and Registration, the memorial of William Mackenzie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Unto the (©tiwral (founcll o£ ffflctttcal (ffBucatton anB Jftegfetratfon, the Memorial of WILLIAM MACKENZIE, M.D., Surgeon Oculist in Scot- land in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen, Lecturer on the Eye in the University of Glas- gow, and one of the Surgeons to the Glasgow Eye Infirmary, I. —That your Memorialist has been engaged for forty years, in teaching the Structure, Functions, and Diseases of the Eye to Medical Students. II. —That the causes which have rendered the Eye and its Diseases a special object of Medical study, he has endeavoured to illustrate, in a printed “Introductory Discourse,” a copy of which, along with “ Outlines of Ophthalmology,” has been transmitted to each member of the General Medical Council; from which “Discourse” and “Outlines,” some idea maybe formed of the importance and bearings of this branch of Medical Science. III. —That he has often endeavoured in bygone years, to impress on the different Licensing Bodies in the three Kingdoms, the propriety of making attendance on a Course of Lectures on the Eye, and on the practice of an Eye Hospital, impei’ative on Candidates for a Medical or Surgical Diploma.