By Johanna Geyer-Kordesch, Fiona MacDonald
Strains the institution of the Royal university of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow as a licensing physique to its eminence as a centre of training within the 18th century. The textual content then covers the next decline of the school within the nineteenth century with an account of ways, along side Glasgow collage, it re-established itself because the guarantor of excessive clinical criteria of studying and perform.
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45-46. 58 RCPSG, i/i/i/ib, pp. 82, 119. It is apparent from a change in the extent and fullness of the entries that the first true minutes were taken in 1654. Accurate minuting probably began at this juncture because negotiations were already afoot which led to the granting of the letter of deaconry of 1656. But it does mean that the factual accuracy of the first half-century of the Faculty's history is compromised since these minutes were written retrospectively. Therefore, although the designation 'faculte' first appears in the minutes in 1627 (a correction of 14 P H Y S I C I A N S AND S U R G E O N S IN GLASGOW called for different names for the body constituted under the charter and that constituted under the seal of cause.
170. 61 As late as 1750, the town comprised only thirteen streets. Hugh Macintosh, The Origin and History of Glasgow Streets (Glasgow, 1902), p. vi. 62 Small smokeless coals suitable for smith's work. 63 T. Tucker, Repon upon the Settlement of the Revenues of Excise and Customs in Scotland, AD MDCIVI, Bannatyne Club (Edinburgh, 1824 reprint), p. 38. R I G H T S AND P R I V I L E G E S 15 town's sustained commercial expansion was to be become fully incorporated with it and thus represented in its administration.
62. RCPSG, i/i/i/ib, pp. 432-33; Duncan, Memorials, p. 63. 24 P H Y S I C I A N S AND S U R G E O N S IN GLASGOW doubtless sought to accord a degree of dignity to the physicians' entry. 97 The physicians insisted, thirdly, that all matters pertaining to the charter were to be determined by the Physician-Visitor and his brethren, with the Surgeon's Visitor and brethren communi concilio; by way of proviso, any act against which the physicians protested was prejudicial to their degree was to be declared void.