The introductory address delivered at the London Hospital School of Medicine on the 1st October, 1846 ... / Printed at the request of the class, for private circulation.

  • Curling, Thomas Blizard, 1811-1888
Date:
1846
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Credit: The introductory address delivered at the London Hospital School of Medicine on the 1st October, 1846 ... / Printed at the request of the class, for private circulation. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I have, in the course of this address, cursorily alluded to several changes in our arrangements, which have been rendered necessary by the progress of medical science and altered circumstances of medical education, or which have been made with the object of rendering this hospital in every way an efficient school of in¬ struction. I will not manifest such bad taste as to declare, that you cannot meet in the other excellent schools of London with equal facilities for the suc¬ cessful prosecution of your studies; but I can con¬ scientiously assert my belief, that the diligent student will here find ample opportunities of making himself thoroughly acquainted with every department of his profession. The different courses are provided with whatever apparatus, diagrams, specimens, and other means of illustration, may be useful or necessary as aids in the communication of knowledge. We have at hand a museum, not perhaps so showily and ex¬ pensively arranged as some to be seen elsewhere, but one especially rich in morbid preparations and useful specimens calculated to elucidate the progress of disease. But, after all, these various means of instruction are very secondary to that invaluable field of observation pre¬ sented by a large and well-conducted hospital. Of ours we justly feel proud,—of its airy and cheerful wards, and of the admirable provision made by the Committee of Management for the comforts and con¬ veniences of the patients; and owing to its position in the vicinity of the docks and numerous manufactories, this hospital, in one respect, is certainly unrivalled, viz. as a school of surgery. The casualties which are D