Medical Education in London: Being a Guide to the Schools of the University of London in the Faculty of Medicine. Issued in Connection with the Franco-British Exhibition |
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Albert Dock Anatomy attend bacteriology beds Bethlem Royal Hospital Branch Metropolitan Provident Charing Cross Hospital Chelsea Chest Diseases CITY OF LONDON Clapham clinical instruction clinical material course curriculum DISPENSARY Branch Metropolitan examination FEVER HOSPITAL George's Guy's Hospital HOME HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES HOSPITAL FOR SICK HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN Hospital Medical School Hygiene in-patients King's College large number lectures LONDON COUNTY ASYLUM London County Council London Hospital London School MARY'S HOSPITAL Metropolitan Asylums Board Metropolitan Provident Medical Museum National Hospital Nervous Diseases nervous system obtained Out-patient Department pathology patients physiological laboratories practical PROVIDENT DISPENSARY Branch Provident Medical Association public health rooms Royal College Royal Free Hospital ROYAL HOSPITAL School of Tropical Schools of Medicine Seamen's Hospital Seamen's Hospital Society SICK CHILDREN Society special departments special hospitals Square Staff subjects surgery surgical teaching THROAT treatment tropical diseases Tropical Medicine UNION INFIRMARY University College Hospital University of London Victoria wards
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Page 88 - Could but esteem, and love preserve our breath, And guard us longer from the stroke of Death, The stroke of Death on him had later fell, Whom all mankind esteemed and loved so well.
Page 88 - From respect to social worth, mirthful qualities, and histrionic excellence, commemorated by poetic talent in humble life. The above inscription, which Time had nearly obliterated, has been preserved and transferred to this Stone, by order of MR. JARVIS BUCK, Churchwarden, AD 1816.
Page 46 - ... 1703 the grand committee resolved that no surgeon should have more than three " Cubbs," a term altered in 1758 to that of " Dressers." Besides these there were also apprentices to the surgeons of the hospital, and ordinary pupils. The first mention of lectures occurs soon after the appointment of Wm. Cheselden, in 1718. These he at first gave at his own house, but afterwards by permission in the hospital. They were on anatomy and surgery. In 1723 a regular registry was ordered to be kept by the...
Page 5 - ... that no person within the city of London, nor within seven miles of the same, take upon him to exercise or occupy as a physician or surgeon, except he be first examined, approved, and admitted by the bishop of London, or by the dean of St. Paul's for the time being, calling to him or them, four doctors of physic, and for surgery, other expert persons in that faculty...
Page 15 - After much discussion the Senate and Convocation agreed in 1878 to accept from the Crown a Supplemental Charter, making every degree, honour, and prize awarded by the University accessible to students of both sexes on perfectly equal terms. The University of London was thus the first academic body in the United Kingdom to admit women as candidates for degrees.
Page 51 - Company, and of the City of London ; and started in business with a capital nf about £200, at the "little corner house of Lombard Street and Cornhill." His business flourished, and he gradually acquired wealth. He printed a large number of bibles, having obtained from the University of Oxford an assignment of their privilege ; and he was not only a printer but also a publisher of books. In the year 1695 he was returned to Parliament as member for...
Page 13 - College'. 2 Similar Charters will be granted to any Institution of the same kind which may be hereafter established. 3 Another Charter will be granted to persons eminent in literature and science, to act as a Board of Examiners, and to perform all the functions of the Examiners in the Senate House of Cambridge; this body to be termed the 'University of London'.
Page 56 - Saunders, who had previously lectured on Medicine at his house in Covent Garden, on being appointed Physician to the Hospital, began delivering his lectures here. He may, therefore, be regarded as the founder of the Medical School. In the year 1768 it was resolved " that the barrier between this Hospital and St. Thomas's be taken down, and that the pupils of St. Thomas's have free leave to see not only the operations, but also all the other practice of this Hospital.
Page 13 - Charter sought for by the Duke of Somerset and " others will be granted, incorporating the parties by the " title of ' London University College.' " 2. Similar Charters will be granted to any Institution of " the same kind which may be hereafter established.
Page 15 - ... rapidly increased. The university, which from the beginning had required English in addition to Latin and Greek for matriculation, now included English philology and literature in the examinations for degrees and honors in arts. It was the first to confer the degree of doctor of literature. It organized for the first time in England a faculty of science, and in 1860 began to hold examinations for the degrees of bachelor and doctor in that faculty. Degrees were instituted in laws in 1867, in music...