The Cambridge medical school : a biographical history
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The Cambridge medical school : a biographical history
（Cambridge library collection, . Cambridge）
Cambridge University Press, 2009
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"This digitally printed version 2009"--T.p. verso
Reprint. Originally published: Cambridge : University Press, 1932
Original t.p.: by Sir Humphry Davy Rolleston
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Description
In the original statutes of the University of Cambridge, the Faculties of Physic, Theology and Law had the same formal status. The development of the teaching of medicine at Cambridge over the next 700 years was, however, neither rapid nor smooth. The first recorded medical degrees were awarded in the 1460s; a Professorship of Physic was finally endowed in 1540 by Henry VIII. Sadly, early holders of this Regius Chair generally gave priority to the pursuit of their own interests over the burden of educating medical students. It was the 1817 appointment of Dr John Haviland that ushered in the modern era of medical education and research at Cambridge. This history, first published in 1932, describes the stages in this process, focusing on the individuals who were key to its success and who laid the foundations for the respected clinical school and leading medical research laboratories of Cambridge today.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. The medical school
- 2. Department of anatomy
- 3. Department of physiology
- 4. Department of biochemistry
- 5. Department of experimental psychology
- 6. Department of pathology
- 7. Department of the Quick Chair of biology
- 8. The Regius Chair of Physic
- 9. John Caius
- 10. The Downing Chair of medicine
- 11. The Linacre Lectureship in Physic
- 12. The Chair of surgery
- Indexes.
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