Volume 1

Descriptive catalogue of the preparations in the museum of St. Thomas's Hospital.

Date:
1847-59
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Descriptive catalogue of the preparations in the museum of St. Thomas's Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    additional Surgeon,-f- wlio should read lectures to the pupils, and that it be recommended to the General Court to elect such Surgeon accordingly. . This proposal having been assented to by the General Court of Governors, Mr. Joseph Else was elected to this appointment on 12th of October of the same year, and probably at once com- menced teaching Anatomy and Surgery in the Hospital. After Mr. Else's death in 1780, Henry Cline, then in his thirty-second year, and who had been apprentice to Mr. Thomas Smith, one of the Surgeons to the Hospital, was chosen Lecturer on Anatomy and Surgery, probationaUy, as appears by the fol- lowing :— Minute of the Grand Committee, I2th September, 1780. That Mr. Cline be appointed to read the Lectures on Ana- tomy and Surgery at St. Thomas's Hospital for twelve months. Minute of the Annual General Court, 8th August, 1781. We have appointed Mr. Cline to read the Lectures on Ana- tomy and Surgery at this Hospital for twelve months from the time of his appointment, and Mr. Martin to be joined with him in the reading of the Chirurgical Lectures during the above time. But very shortly after, Mr. Cline was appointed permanently and alone, as Lecturer, by the following :— Minute of the Grand Committee, 2Gth September, 1781. That Mr. Cline be continued in his appointment of Lec- turer on Anatomy and Surgery, at this Hospital, during the pleasure of this Committee. + The Surgeons of the Hospital at this period were,— Mr. Thomas Baker, elected in 1739 Mr Benjamin Co well, „ 1749 Mr. Thomas Smith, „ 17(50