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ST. VINCENT'S HOSPITAL.
IRISH HOSPITALS AND MEDICAL SCHOOLS.
Mr. ORMH: Three months. The Council then deliberated on the On the readmission of strangers,
it stood case
in
private.
The PRESIDENT stld: Mr. Orme, I have to read to you the resolution of this Council, after having considered your case, as you must be aware, at considerable length and with very to which they have been great deliberation. isThe resolutionthe Council views with the obliged to arrive at this :-That of conduct Mr. Robert Orme as the disapprobation gravest admitted by him, and while dealing with the offence the special circumstances of this case, and leniently in his name from the Register, they at the not erasing same time wish him to understand that the carrying on of a branch practice under the conditions admitted by this Council, and him is a serious offence in the is also detrimental to the public welfare. That id all that I have to say on the part of the Council. Mr. ORME said that under the circumstances he should resign his appointment in connexion with the company, as he had no desire (and never had) to infringe the rules of the Council. He should also discharge Mr.McGowan with the proper notice. The Council then adjourned at half-past six.
opinion of
IRISH HOSPITALS AND MEDICAL SCHOOLS.
1087
rock. It did not now depend on the one-man on the ability and energy of the teachers, and worthy of the distinguished College of Elizabeth.
on a
principle,
but
it was now
Its future would be onward and upward. Havingaddressed special remarks to the students, Dr. Haughton said ha had great pleasure, in the name of the professors of theschool, in asking the Provost, as head of the College, to hand over these enlarged buildings to them, and wish them God-. speed in the future. some
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ST. VINCENT’S HOSPITAL. MR. ToBIN said: When thinking of a subject for the remarks which it was his duty to make to them that day, this sentence from Watson’s well-known introductory address occurred to him-" The profession which you and I have chosen, or which circumstances have prescribed for us,. is a noble profession, and worthy of the devotion of a lifetime." He would take this for his text, and, in the first place, he would briefly indicate in what the nobleness of their profession consisted ; and, in the next, how they could to the best advantage devote their time to its study and its practice. He asked them to bear in mind that when one gave advice one usually did so by going back on one’s own life, reviewing its mistakes and its failures, looking into the causes thereof, and then raising a voice of warning to those. coming behind. If, then, he seemed to them too emphatic in condemning any practice, they should remember that his censure included himself, and that in every word of blame
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS MEDICAL SCHOOL. SiB WILLIAM STOKES said that it seemed to him that he made a confession and a self-reproach. He then pointed there was a peculiar responsibility and importance attached out in what respect his profession differed from others, and to the opening of this session, as they were, so to say, enter- mentioned cases showing that there existed in the public ing upon a new dispsnsation, " The old order changeth, mind the expectation of gratuitous work from them, and hethis was not a thing to be cavilled at, but to be cherished. yielding place to new." They were now, in truth, ringing said and glorified in as a splendid inheritance put together by out the old system, and ringing in the new; and this prothe devotion and self-sacrifice of those who had gone before cess was fraught with consequences of the utmost gravity them. He then proceeded to indicate how they could, to and importance, not alone to the student, but also to the the best advantage, pursue their studies after they had first and at Since the public the large. College, the profession, a careful choice of their profession, and had in some last inaugural address was delivered there a union had taken made assured themselves of their competence for such a proway old that and the medical corporations place between College of Ireland. Hence the student in medicine had now to look fession as theirs, one which required the severe mental forward not alone to sessional examinations, but also to a gymnastics implied by the study of medicine. He urged thein the profession, and final one, conducted, not as heretofore by one, but by two necessity of toil to obtain a position showed that in after life how much they were likely toof the medical authorities. From this union of their College with the other corporations he anticipated the best results. lament lost opportunities. The want of it too long had been a source of weakness to RICHMOND HOSPITAL. their profession, and had kindled feelings of jealousy and DR. O’CARROLL said he would attempt to speak to them. distrust, keeping them divided, powerless, and weak; and although in the negotiations between the licensing bodies on the subject of pathology: first, because of his faith in its many feathers had been, and still were, ruffled, and the necessity as part of medical education; and secondly, because union not as comprehensive as he trusted he might live of his conviction that it was that branch of investigation in to see it, still a good beginning had been made, and he looked forward with confidence to witnessing a happy which the Dublin school was most signally behindhand. reciprocity and overlapping of their work, and an approach First, to define what he meant by pathology. Pathology made to that end desired by all-unity in science of medicine. signified, as they were aware, the knowledge of the circumThe lecturer then gave advice as to earnestness, enthusiasm, stances attending disease, but it had come to be narrowed and honesty in work. One of their main ambitions should down to mean that science which investigates the physical be not to be haunted in after life by the disturbing and basis of disease. The science of pathology was yet in its, paralysing spectres of lost opportunities. They should keep infancy. They had ventured into depths unfathomed by records of what they saw and what they heard, both in those who had gone before them, but the time had been too and school. Their motto should be-" Nulla dies short and the number of workers too few for many large hospital sine linea." The lecturer then gave a brief retrospect of the discoveries. But what pathology had achieved might be chief surgical work accomplished by some of his predecessors gathered from a comparison of the state of medical knowin the surgical chair of the College, and said that in that ledge before its recognition as a science and since that. survey he had to acknowledge with gratitude the assistance time. Now, as in the past, the only sure basis of prohe had derived from the comprehensive history of the gress was observation, and of all the fields for observation College by his friend and colleague, Sir Charles Cameron. open to them, he submitted that pathology, studying as it -
SCHOOL OF PHYSIC, TRINITY COLLEGE. THE lecturer (Rev. S. HAUGHTON) delivered an address on "The History of the Medical School of Trinity College." He said that the school under Macartney went up like a rocket and it camedown like a stick. That was because it was worked on the one-man principle. The professors were asked to surrender their opinions for those of a dictator. Under such a
system he said fearlessly liberty perished, and no institution,
the British Empire, could stand. From 1858 the school had progressed with varied fortunes, and now it had attained a prosperity not only equal but surpassing the time of Macartney, because it then stood on sand, but now
not even
did all the body changes, the sum of which they named disease, claimed their first care. They could have no idea. till they came to practise for themselves how vivid would be their diagnosis when based on a sound pathological knowledge. It was the absence of such knowledge which led. such a large and persistent objectivity to such ideas as "constitution," "nerves," "system," and many others which. he could mention. It had again been objected that pathology lends so little aid to therapeutics. The objection was a strong one, in the present undeveloped state of pathology. It was quite true that, to a large extent, they treated symptoms rather than physical conditions. Yet a comparison* of the general course of treatment in the pre-pathological era and that of to-day would, he thought, convince them that, the science of therapeutics proper had gained a very great
Mr. ORMH: Three months. The Council then deliberated on the On the readmission of strangers,
it stood case
in
private.
The PRESIDENT stld: Mr. Orme, I have to read to you the resolution of this Council, after having considered your case, as you must be aware, at considerable length and with very to which they have been great deliberation. isThe resolutionthe Council views with the obliged to arrive at this :-That of conduct Mr. Robert Orme as the disapprobation gravest admitted by him, and while dealing with the offence the special circumstances of this case, and leniently in his name from the Register, they at the not erasing same time wish him to understand that the carrying on of a branch practice under the conditions admitted by this Council, and him is a serious offence in the is also detrimental to the public welfare. That id all that I have to say on the part of the Council. Mr. ORME said that under the circumstances he should resign his appointment in connexion with the company, as he had no desire (and never had) to infringe the rules of the Council. He should also discharge Mr.McGowan with the proper notice. The Council then adjourned at half-past six.
opinion of
IRISH HOSPITALS AND MEDICAL SCHOOLS.
1087
rock. It did not now depend on the one-man on the ability and energy of the teachers, and worthy of the distinguished College of Elizabeth.
on a
principle,
but
it was now
Its future would be onward and upward. Havingaddressed special remarks to the students, Dr. Haughton said ha had great pleasure, in the name of the professors of theschool, in asking the Provost, as head of the College, to hand over these enlarged buildings to them, and wish them God-. speed in the future. some
-
ST. VINCENT’S HOSPITAL. MR. ToBIN said: When thinking of a subject for the remarks which it was his duty to make to them that day, this sentence from Watson’s well-known introductory address occurred to him-" The profession which you and I have chosen, or which circumstances have prescribed for us,. is a noble profession, and worthy of the devotion of a lifetime." He would take this for his text, and, in the first place, he would briefly indicate in what the nobleness of their profession consisted ; and, in the next, how they could to the best advantage devote their time to its study and its practice. He asked them to bear in mind that when one gave advice one usually did so by going back on one’s own life, reviewing its mistakes and its failures, looking into the causes thereof, and then raising a voice of warning to those. coming behind. If, then, he seemed to them too emphatic in condemning any practice, they should remember that his censure included himself, and that in every word of blame
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS MEDICAL SCHOOL. SiB WILLIAM STOKES said that it seemed to him that he made a confession and a self-reproach. He then pointed there was a peculiar responsibility and importance attached out in what respect his profession differed from others, and to the opening of this session, as they were, so to say, enter- mentioned cases showing that there existed in the public ing upon a new dispsnsation, " The old order changeth, mind the expectation of gratuitous work from them, and hethis was not a thing to be cavilled at, but to be cherished. yielding place to new." They were now, in truth, ringing said and glorified in as a splendid inheritance put together by out the old system, and ringing in the new; and this prothe devotion and self-sacrifice of those who had gone before cess was fraught with consequences of the utmost gravity them. He then proceeded to indicate how they could, to and importance, not alone to the student, but also to the the best advantage, pursue their studies after they had first and at Since the public the large. College, the profession, a careful choice of their profession, and had in some last inaugural address was delivered there a union had taken made assured themselves of their competence for such a proway old that and the medical corporations place between College of Ireland. Hence the student in medicine had now to look fession as theirs, one which required the severe mental forward not alone to sessional examinations, but also to a gymnastics implied by the study of medicine. He urged thein the profession, and final one, conducted, not as heretofore by one, but by two necessity of toil to obtain a position showed that in after life how much they were likely toof the medical authorities. From this union of their College with the other corporations he anticipated the best results. lament lost opportunities. The want of it too long had been a source of weakness to RICHMOND HOSPITAL. their profession, and had kindled feelings of jealousy and DR. O’CARROLL said he would attempt to speak to them. distrust, keeping them divided, powerless, and weak; and although in the negotiations between the licensing bodies on the subject of pathology: first, because of his faith in its many feathers had been, and still were, ruffled, and the necessity as part of medical education; and secondly, because union not as comprehensive as he trusted he might live of his conviction that it was that branch of investigation in to see it, still a good beginning had been made, and he looked forward with confidence to witnessing a happy which the Dublin school was most signally behindhand. reciprocity and overlapping of their work, and an approach First, to define what he meant by pathology. Pathology made to that end desired by all-unity in science of medicine. signified, as they were aware, the knowledge of the circumThe lecturer then gave advice as to earnestness, enthusiasm, stances attending disease, but it had come to be narrowed and honesty in work. One of their main ambitions should down to mean that science which investigates the physical be not to be haunted in after life by the disturbing and basis of disease. The science of pathology was yet in its, paralysing spectres of lost opportunities. They should keep infancy. They had ventured into depths unfathomed by records of what they saw and what they heard, both in those who had gone before them, but the time had been too and school. Their motto should be-" Nulla dies short and the number of workers too few for many large hospital sine linea." The lecturer then gave a brief retrospect of the discoveries. But what pathology had achieved might be chief surgical work accomplished by some of his predecessors gathered from a comparison of the state of medical knowin the surgical chair of the College, and said that in that ledge before its recognition as a science and since that. survey he had to acknowledge with gratitude the assistance time. Now, as in the past, the only sure basis of prohe had derived from the comprehensive history of the gress was observation, and of all the fields for observation College by his friend and colleague, Sir Charles Cameron. open to them, he submitted that pathology, studying as it -
SCHOOL OF PHYSIC, TRINITY COLLEGE. THE lecturer (Rev. S. HAUGHTON) delivered an address on "The History of the Medical School of Trinity College." He said that the school under Macartney went up like a rocket and it camedown like a stick. That was because it was worked on the one-man principle. The professors were asked to surrender their opinions for those of a dictator. Under such a
system he said fearlessly liberty perished, and no institution,
the British Empire, could stand. From 1858 the school had progressed with varied fortunes, and now it had attained a prosperity not only equal but surpassing the time of Macartney, because it then stood on sand, but now
not even
did all the body changes, the sum of which they named disease, claimed their first care. They could have no idea. till they came to practise for themselves how vivid would be their diagnosis when based on a sound pathological knowledge. It was the absence of such knowledge which led. such a large and persistent objectivity to such ideas as "constitution," "nerves," "system," and many others which. he could mention. It had again been objected that pathology lends so little aid to therapeutics. The objection was a strong one, in the present undeveloped state of pathology. It was quite true that, to a large extent, they treated symptoms rather than physical conditions. Yet a comparison* of the general course of treatment in the pre-pathological era and that of to-day would, he thought, convince them that, the science of therapeutics proper had gained a very great