Suggestions for the consideration of the College Committee of the ... town-council, concerning the medical curriculum of the University of Edinburgh, &c. / [by James Sanders].

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[1833]
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    nation of the animal economy; therefore Class 13, Natural History, is quite as superfluous as Natural Philosophy or Astronomy would be. 3. Class of Medical Jurisprudence and Police, chiefly teaches those effects apparent in the body, which are pro- duced by means employed to destroy, or which have in- tentionally destroyed, human life. Nothing can be brought forward in this class which is not of necessity exposed in much greater amplitude, both analytically and synthetically, in the other classes ; this class, therefore, is not only super- erogatory, but must be intolerably tedious to any medical student who has been moderately attentive. At the same time, it seems to me, that this course ought to be impera- tive upon students of law. 8. Class of General Pathology, in a practical sense, signifies neither more nor less than the Practice of Physic. To have two classes for precisely the same thing is quite un- necessary, and to give them different names is ridiculous. The modern appellation is borrowed from the French, who call Pathologie Interne what we call Practice of Physic, and Pathologie Eocterne what we call Surgery. But even the most prodigal and thoughtless would think it hard to be compelled to pay three or four guineas merely for the name of a class. 11. Class of Clinical Surgery. To him who has at- tended this and the 6. Practice of Physic, attendance upon 5. Surgery is altogether unnecessary. Hence we infer that it is to frustrate the very design of forming a thoroughly educated practical physician, to add even one class to the following:—1. Physiology. 2. Materia Medica. 3. Pathology, or Practice of Physic. 4. Anatomy. 5. Practical Anatomy. 6. Chemistry. 7- Botany. 8. Midwifery. 9- Clinical Medicine. 10. Cli- nical Surgery. To the Curriculum Studiorum Medicince, or Course