Calendar: 1857-1858 Page 199

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 199 Physicians and Surgeons of Edinburgh in accordance with regulations to be adopted by these Colleges jointly and approved of by the Patrons of the Uni- versity shall to the extent of one-third of the whole departments required by Section II Clause to be studied by Candidates be held equivalent to attend- ance under Professors in this or some other University as already defined And such attendance shall be available to Candidates to the extent of one of the four years of study required by Section provided it has embraced in one year at least two Six Months' Courses of Lectures or one of these and two Three Months' Courses Sect IV No one shall obtain the Degree of Doctor who has not studied in the manner already prescribed for at least one year previous to his Graduation in the University of Edinburgh Sect Every Candidate must deliver before the 31st of March of the year in which he proposes to Graduate to the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine First Declaration in his own handwriting that he is twenty-one years of age or will be so before the day of Graduation and that he will not he then under articles of apprenticeship to any Surgeon or other master Secondly Statement of his Studies well in Literature and Philosophy as in Medicine accompanied with proper Certificates Thirdly Medical Dissertation composed by himself in Latin or English to be perused by Professor and subject to his approval Sect VI Before Candidate be examined in Medicine the Medical Faculty shall ascertain by examination that he possesses competent knowledge of the Latin Language Sect VII If the Faculty be satisfied on this point they shall proceed to examine him either viva voce or in writing first on Anatomy Chemistry Botany Institutes of Medicine and Natural History bearing chiefly on Zoology and secondly on Materia Medica Pathology Practice of Medicine Surgery Midwifery and Medical Jurisprudence Sect VIII Students who profess themselves ready to submit to an exami- nation on the first division of these subjects at the end of the third year of their studies shall be admitted to it at that time Sect IX If any one at these private examinations be found unqualified for the Degree he must study during another year two of the subjects prescribed in Section II Class in this or in some other University as above defined before he can be admitted to another Examination Sect Should he he approved of he will be allowed but not required to print his Thesis and if printed forty copies of it must be delivered before the 25th day of July to the Dean of the Medical Faculty Sect XI If the Candidate have satisfied the Medical Faculty the Dean shall lay the proceedings before the Senatus Academicus by whose authority the Candidate shall be summoned on the 31st of July to defend his Thesis and finally if the Senate think fit he shall be admitted on the first lawful day of August to the Degree of Doctor