The Practice of MedicineThe Practice of Medicine. By MeakinsJonathan-Campbell, M.D., LL.D., Brigadier, Deputy Director General of Medical Services, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps; Professor of Medicine and Director of the Department of Medicine, McGill University; Physician-in-Chief, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal; Formerly Professor of Therapeutics and Clinical Medicine, University of Edinburgh; Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh; Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Canada; Fellow of the American College of Physicians; Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. A volume of 1444 pages, with 517 illustrations, including 48 in color. Published by the C. V. Mosby Co., St. Louis, Mo. Fourth Edition, 1944. Price $10.00.

No centenarians are recorded among the ordinary Fellows of the Royal Society. Sir Thomas Barlow fell short by eight months of completing his hundredth year. Physical strength and vigour of mind stayed with him almost to the end. As President of the Royal College of Physicians, and physician to Queen Victoria and the next two sovereigns in succession, he had attained the highest place among consultants in medicine. Even on retirement from these posts he continued for the next quarter of a century to live in the minds of medical men, young as well as old, for throughout this time he was head of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund and through his personal activity for the welfare of that charity made his name happily familiar to both those who gave and those who received. He was justly and proudly spoken of as the Nestor of British medicine; and he loved his profession. Barlow was elected to the Fellowship of the Society in 1909, when sixty-four years old. It is of interest to note the names of the Fellows in the group of active clinical medicine who signed his certificate at that time: Lord Lister, Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, Sir David Ferrier, P. H. Pye-Smith, Sir Victor Horsley, Sidney Martin, Sir Frederick Mott, H. C. Bastian, Sir Lauder Brunton, Sir William Gowers, F. W. Pavy, Sir John Rose Bradford, and Sir Patrick Manson. All these men had passed away before Barlow himself died, and the clinicians who have succeeded to them in the Society are now in smaller number.

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ART. XVI.???Lectures on the Principles and Methods of. Medical Observation and Research, for the Use of Advanced Students and Junior Practitioners. By THOMAS LAYCOCK, M. D., F. R. S. E., F. R. C. P., Professor of the Practice of Medicine and of Clinical Medicine in the University of Edinburgh, etc. etc. ???Homo, nature?? minister et interpres, tantum facit et intelligit quantum de naturae ordine re vel mente observavent; nee amplius scit aut potest.??????BACON. Philadelphia

The American Journal of the Medical Sciences ◽

10.1097/00000441-185704000-00016 ◽

1857 ◽

Vol 66 (1) ◽

pp. 458-460

Author(s):

&NA;

Keyword(s):

Clinical Medicine ◽

Advanced Students ◽

Medical Observation ◽

Practice Of Medicine ◽

University Of Edinburgh ◽

The University

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Medicine

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section B Biological Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0269727000013828 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 84 ◽

pp. 251-266

Author(s):

George L. Montgomery

Keyword(s):

Medical Education ◽

Royal College ◽

Medical Faculty ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Town Council ◽

Practice Of Medicine ◽

University Of Edinburgh ◽

The University ◽

The Town

During the two hundred years under review, medical education in Scotland evolved gradually from an apprentice system to become the prerogative of the universities of St Andrews, Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh, named in the order of their foundation. Of those, the University of Edinburgh was not only the last to be founded, it differed also in that its administration initially was by the Town Council. It was an Act passed by that body on 9 February 1726, that established the Charter of the Medical Faculty of the University. Four Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, namely John Rutherford, Andrew Sinclair, Andrew Plummer and John Innes were appointed foundation professors, the first two to chairs of the theory and practice of medicine, Plummer and Innes to chairs of medicine and chemistry. All four had been pupils of Boerhaave.

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