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MODERN TIMES.
law, arts and science, with technical institutions and other
establishments.
There exists also in London a medical school for women
who intend devoting themselves to the profession
In other towns of the United Kingdom medical schools
are to be found, as at Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liver­
pool, Sheffield; Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Gal way .Edinburgh,
Glasgow, etc. ; there are also schools which offer instruc­
tion in certain departments but not a complete medical,
education ; such are the West London Hospital Preparatory
School and COOKE'S School of Anatomy.
In the British colonies, Canada, and . British India a
number of medical schools are also to be found arranged
after the English pattern : there is a similar establishment
at Valetta in the island of Malta.*
The medical schools of England, like the hospitals to
which they are attached, are as a rule private undertakings.
The State neither pays for their maintenance nor gives any
contribution towards it; as little does it exert any influence
on their organization and administration or upon the educa- (
tion given at them. Consequently attendance at these schools
by no means confers the right to practise. Their teaching
staffs have no authority to hold examinations the passing
of which confers any public rights, but are compelled to
refer their pupils to the medical corporations and examining
bodies for this purpose, the certificates and diplomas of
which constitute the license to practise. The private
character of the medical schools is manifested in their
arrangements, in the way in which they are equipped with,
appliances for teaching according to the taste and choice -
of the teachers, and in other ways. The decision in these
matters rests with the Governors who exercise a super­
vision over the affairs of the hospital. With them lies the
duty of appointing the medical and teaching staff. As
these Governors consist chiefly of laymen and have among
* H. B. HARDWICKE: Medical education and practice in all parts of the
world, London 1880.