The medical institutions of Glasgow : a handbook prepared for the annual meeting of the British Medical Association, held in Glasgow, August, 1888 / compiled and edited at the request of the local committee by James Christie.

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[1889]
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Credit: The medical institutions of Glasgow : a handbook prepared for the annual meeting of the British Medical Association, held in Glasgow, August, 1888 / compiled and edited at the request of the local committee by James Christie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    are apt at times to distract the minds even of grave Pro- fessors, therefore these latter are strictly counselled not to marry: but in the event of their being compelled by untoward Force of Circumstances to chose between two Evils, they are prohibited on pain of removal from their Chairs from brino-ino- their Better-halves within the College Myalls. * The University was at first purely an examining body without buildings or endowments; but Arts students soon began to assemble for lectures in a building long known as the Auld Pedagogy or College, which probably formed part of the Bishop's property, and was situated on the south side of the Rottenrow. Lectures on Law were delivered in the monastery of the Predicant Friars (Black Friars), and possibly also in the Cathedral. In 1460, the University received as a bequest from James, first Lord Hamilton, a tenement on the site of the old Colleo-e in High Street, together with four acres of adjacent ground, to which additions were gradually made by purchase and donation. Here the students lived under strict supervision, rising at 5 o'clock in the morning, dining at a common table, retiring for the night at 915 p.m., and subject to a rigorous discipline that dispensed fines or corporal punishment for even trivial ofifences. The session lasted for ten months, and three and a half years were required to complete the curriculum. The main subjects of study, and the order in which they were taken were as follows:—Greek and Logic, Ethics and Mathematics, Physiology and Anatomy, Geology, Astronomy and Geography. In all these subjects the authority of Aristotle was paramount: Absurdum est dicere errasse Aristotelem '* was an accepted maxim. The teaching of Latin was not introduced till 1637; but students were required to speak in Latin only, a knowledge of which they were expected to have acquired in the grammar schools—a usage which helps * Glasgow, Ancient and Modern, vol. i, \\ 616.