A letter to James Thomas Law, M.A., Chancellor of the Diocese of Lichfield, on the importance of establishing, in connection with the Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery, a clinical hospital / by William Sands Cox.

  • Cox, William Sands, 1802-1875.
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[1839]
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Credit: A letter to James Thomas Law, M.A., Chancellor of the Diocese of Lichfield, on the importance of establishing, in connection with the Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery, a clinical hospital / by William Sands Cox. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    efficiency of the Institution; viz. the recent enact- ments of the London University, which demands attendance on Surgical Clinical instruction; the regidations issued on the 20th of October, 1839, of the Royal College of Surgeons, which now re- quires attendance, during three years, on the prac- tice of Surgery, at an Hospital; the great and pro- bahly increasing demand for Medical instruction in this town, from the rapid communication in all directions with surrounding districts ; and, ahove all, the imperative obligation to render the system of instruction, pursued at the School, as perfect as possible—sound and stable, and at the same time perfectly keeping pace with the march of science; the establishment of a Clinical Infirmary is in- dispensably recpiired. Compare the system of education, existing a few years ago, with the extended system of the present day. Regulations of the Royal College or Surgeons, 1826. Rrpilatioiis, Candidates will be required to bring proof,— jg!2G. ^- Of having attended three winter courses of Anatomical Lec- nures,* and also one or more winter courses of Chirurgical Lectures. 2. Of having performed dissections during two or more winter courses. 3. Of having attended during the term of at least one year, the Chiturgieal practice of a Hospital. Reijulafwns issued October, 1839. Rogiiliilions, Candidates will be required, in addition to a Certificate of being jl^g.^,j not less than twenty-one years of age, to bring proof— 1. Of having been engaged in the acquirement of professional * Two courses of Lcc'lures were delivereO in n winter..