The Victoria University of Manchester Medical School (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Victoria University of Mancheste School
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ISBN: 9781330837313
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 82

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Excerpt from The Victoria University of Manchester Medical School The foundation of the Manchester Infirmary in 1752 was the first incident in the development of the University of Manchester School of Medicine of the present day. In this year Mr. Thomas Bancroft, a prominent citizen, and Mr. Charles White, a young and enthusiastic surgeon, who, as a student in London and Edinburgh, had seen the immense benefit which hospitals were to the sick poor and to the study of medicine, and who had just settled in practice in the town, opened a hospital for twelve patients. So successful was the venture that a larger building had to be provided, and this was erected on the site in Piccadilly where, with its various enlargements, it has been in constant use and known as the Manchester Royal Infirmary until 1908. Whilst apprentices were at once admitted to the practice of the hospital, it was not until 1783 that lectures on the ancillary sciences of anatomy, physiology, and chemistry were delivered under the auspices of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society by Charles White, his son Thomas White, and Thomas Henry respectively. The lectures on anatomy and physiology for some reason or other were not a success, and after a couple of sessions were discontinued. But from this date on-wards for the next twenty years, other courses on the same subjects were delivered irregularly, the best known lecturers, in addition to Charles White and Thomas Henry, being John Ferriar, Peter Mark Roget, and William Henry, all men whose names are still honoured. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.