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At the present time, students of medicine, get their
technical education chiefly at the medical schools, and
universities. Of the former there is no scarcity : twelve
exist in London alone. They are connected with hospitals
and are commonly named after them.
The oldest school is that of St. Bartholomew's Hospital,
the eventful history of which is closely bound up with the
development of medicine in England. The existence of
this institution for the sick dates from 1164 and the
earliest records of medical teaching held there, from 1662.
To its staff belonged WILLIAM HARVEY, the discoverer of
the circulation of the blood, and at a later period the surgeons
PERCIVAL POTT and ABERNETHY*
St. Thomas' Hospital was founded in the 13th century;
with it too a school is connected : in the records of this
institution an apprentice is mentioned as early as in the
year 1551. The present buildings were opened for use in
1871 and by their very convenient arrangements excited
the admiration of experts.
So too St. George's, the Middlesex, the London, Charing
Cross, Westminster, St. Mary's, and Guy's are hospitals
used for medical teaching and have medical schools
attached.f
King's College and University College (not identical
with London University) are also connected with hospitals;
but they differ from the other medical schools in not being
isolated from, but in organic connection with, faculties of
vi '$
Vol. 29). « It would be a mistake to introduce absolute uniformity into medical
education. One great merit of the present system, so far as teaching is concerned,
lies in the elasticity which is produced by the variety and the numbers of
educating bodies."
* N MOORE in St. Bartholomew's Hospital Rep., Lond. 1882, xviii, p. 333.
1846 DELAM0TTE: The R ^ al Hos P ltal °f St- Bartholomew, London
t Bi». GOLDING: Historical account of St. Thomas' Hospital, London
S^wT. 5 S ° N: The HiSt ° ry ° f thC MiddleseX Hos P ital > London
»4?.-W. E. PAGE: St. George's Hospital, London 1866.-B. GOLDING • The
°ng.n, plan and operations of the Charing Cross Hospital, London ,867.