THE

PROBLEM

OF

MEDICAL

EDUCATION.

"Cbc Iprest&cntial B55ress, fcelivcreb on October 9tb, 1912, at tbe opening of tbe "Cbirtssnintb Session of tbe SSristol /IftcSicosCbimrcjical Socicty;.

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Walter C. Swayne, M.D. Lond. and Bristol, Physician, Bristol Royal Infirmary, and Professor of Obstetrics> University of Bristol.

It has been the rule that the President of this

Society should

his year of office by delivering to the members an address, which has usually dealt with some subject of a scientific or medical nature. commence

In

addressing

Education

"

outside the

object or

"

on

you

Some

Problems

it may appear that the purview of a Society such

subject as

of is

Medici

somewhat

this, whose chie

is the discussion of medical matters from their

practical

scientific aspect. I may,

meeting

however, give

in the

buildings

as

one

reason

that the Society

15

University of Bristol, of Society are also members. Anothef fact that in England, at any

of the

many of the members of the reason lies in the historical

medical education has been carried

ra*ej

by the practitioners medicine themselves without State aid, and with only sllCk modest pecuniary endowments as the profession itself con

supply.

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