City Hospital, Bulrampur Hospital
and Vaccine
Department,
teachers. The courses of lectures which these officers
give
are as
are
intended to
follows:?
LorfG Srssion, 1st July to 31st Dec.
N AMES.
Physiology
Dr. Bonavia
&
Hygiene.
Baboo Chundi Ch. Ghose Medicine
Short Srssion1, 1st Jan. to 30th April.
Botany
and
Medica. and
?
Nobin Ch. Mitter
Surgery
Physics
?
Ishan Ch.
Anatomy
Midwifery.
Roy
..
The curriculum
elements in
a
of
course
study
thus embraces all the
of medical
the absence of medical
Zoology.
Materia
study. jurisprudence,
Chemistry.
principal
regret to observe probably this want
We but
tlio school progresses. The report does not supplied indicate what the length of the session is intended to be. will be
as
Four years at the very least would appear to be necessnry for imparting a sound and thorough knowledge of
the purpose of
medical science and
training
in medical art, and
we
hope that
will not fall short of this.
the term of
study " managing cominitteo decided at starting that the candidates for scholarships in the medical school should possess a knowledge of English, as no satisfactory training of medical students could be given without it." This is a most important resolution, and, provided that the standard of English 7cnoiVm ledge is sufficiently high, a very excellent one. The question of whether instruction should be imparted in the Calcutta Medical College in English or the vernacular was warmly discussed, when the arrangements for its establishment were under consideration, and the decision which was then arrived at in favor The
THE BULRAMPUR MEDICAL SCHOOL. Nothing can
indicate
Science in the
Medical
tiplication
so clearly the progress of "Western Presidency of Bengal as the rapid mul-
schools.
of medical
Wo have
now
before
ns
t.he
first report of the medical school which was established in 1872 at Lucknow in connection with the Bulrampur Hospital, a year by Sir Dirigbijay Bulrampur. The scheme of the institution was, we believe, arranged by Surgeon-Major H. M. Cannon, M.D., lately Civil Surgeon of Lucknow, who
endowed
and
Us. 10,000
with
Singh, K.C.S.L, Maharajah
now, tee
as
of
Deputy Surgeon-General,
is
a
member of the commit-
of management of the school ; the Commissioner and Civil
Surgeon
of Lucknow
being the other members.
is intended for the education in medicine of the
province of Oudh,
of the
Lucknow for exami-
nation at the commencement of each session
promising
youth
and tho local committees of each district
have been instructed to select and send to
of
The school
a
certain number
who are desirous to
study medicine. teachers, and 30 of the best are selected for scholarships which are paid by the several districts of the province, a fixed number of the successful candidates being allotted to each. the Thus young
men
These are examined
by
tho
principal
and
province educates from local revenues a certain number of youths, and the school is, moreover, open to as many more students as are willing to pay for their own education. Surgeon-Mnjor E. Bonavia, M.D., who is also health officer of Lucknow, was appointed principal, and three assistant surgeons, Baboos Chundi Churn
Ghose, Nobin Chunder Mitter and Ishan Chunder ltoy, who also hold the appointments in the
English has proved a great ledge of English which many
Tlio
imperfect knowis, however, found to be a most serious bar to profitable instruction, and it is now under serious consideration whether the standard of preliminary knowledge of English should not be raised
of
success.
of tlio students possess
University First Arts Examina* University Entrance Examination
and the admission test be the tion in the
place
of the
heretofore.
preliminary examination for scholarships was held on 1873, and the school opened by Sir George Couper, Bart-, C.B., C.S., on the 14th of April 1873. Forty three candidates appeared, of whom 27 were selected. Several free indents also joined the school. The latter had all dropped the away before the close of the session, and 1'2 of the former left The
the 17th March
school from various causes.
Courses of lectures were
delivered
zoology by the principal, and on materia medica, chemistry and physics and anatomy by the teachers. " All the lectures were given in English, explanations bei?? given in the vernacular whenever it was found necessary t0 impress any particular point on the minds of the students." 53, 35, 121, 151, and 1/1 lectures were delivered on the vnriou3 subjects above named respectively. Weekly oral examination9 and monthly written examinations were held in each class a"^ general written examination held at the closo of the sessio"'
on
botany
and
afc
The principal in addition to these " examined thoroughly different times each of tlio classes in order to satisfy hirn
ns to what progress was being made." The work appe0 to have been most thorough and good, and the students flppe0
self
Joit 1, 187J,] as
a
A CONORESS ON CHOLERA.
rule to have been attentive and
diligent.
Forty-five
bodies
dissected during the session. The prominence which is given to the study of physical science in this school is a notable feature. We incline to think Were
with Mr.
Huxley
that
physical
science should constitute rather
part of general education than of special training for a profession, and we have observed with satisfaction that the study of a
objects
rather than abstractions has been of late
gradually
introduced into schemes of general education in India ; still
better discipline of
a course
can
of medical
be had
study
recourse
than
no
to at the commencement
practical instruction
botany and zoology ; anatomy and chemistry however, more intimately connected with the study
in
physics,
which
are,
of medical
science supplying a similar educational use. On the whole, this report shows that the first session of the Bulrampur Medical school has been a term of energetic and practical
Work,
and
the tone of the
report
and the results which it
records augur well for the future of the school.
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