Speech delivered at a meeting of the Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh, on the 20th Nov. 1824, respecting a proposal for new regulations in granting the degree of doctor of medicine / by Andrew Duncan (Sen. Med. Theor. P.).

  • Duncan, Andrew, Jun., 1773-1832
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1824
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    ample form as any College has or bruiks within his Majesty's realm. These high privileges, Sir, were soon after ra- tified and confirmed by an act of the ParHament of Scotland in 1621. After this ratification of their privileges by the Legislature of the king- dom, the University of Edinburgh, for about a century, conferred the degree of Doctor of Medi- cine in the same venal way with the other Scot- tish Universities. But about the year 1T26, in imitation of the Protestant University of Leyden, then the most celebrated school of medicine in Europe, medical lectures were introduced into the University of Edinburgh. Those eminent men to whom Edin- burgh is indebted for the commencement of its Medical School, Drs Monro primus, SiiVclatr, Alston, Plummer, and Rutherford, who were the first who delivered medical lectures in the University of Edinburgh, formed a very judicious set of laws for the creation of Doctors of Medi- cine. By these laws, it was enacted, that no one should, on any testimonials whatever, obtain the degree of Doctor of Medicine, unless when per- sonally present; that every candidate for that de- gree should undergo an examination in the Latin language, before those Professors who had, by the Senatus Academicus, been appointed the Faculty of Medicine in the University; that, at this trial, the candidate should be examined by that Facul-