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quired an eminent degree of celebrity, which under 

 the aufpices of the late Dr Cullen, Dr Gregory, and 

 others who are lUU alive, came to be accounted the firfl: 

 medical fchool in Europe. 



This univerfity is ditlinguifhed from all others in 

 Britain, by feveral particulars, which deferve to be 

 pointed out, as having perhaps contributed not a little, 

 at the fame time to raife its celebrity as a medical 

 fchool, and to render its teaching-rooms inadequate 

 for the purpofe wanted. 



I ft, The funds of the univerfity are fmall, and unlefs 

 it be tliofe appropriated to the library, none of them are 

 under the diredlion of the fe?iatus acadeniiciis. This 

 has greatly tended to promote peace in the univerfity, 

 and to banilh thofe party cabals which have, in fo many 

 inftances, rendered other learned focieties contemptible. 



2d, Tht falarifs oi the profeflbrs are very low : fome 

 of thofe of the firft rank in the medical line are un- 

 der fifty pounds a year; by this means their chief emo- 

 luments refult from the fees of their ftudents. Thus it 

 behoves them, to be fo eminent in their profeflion as to 

 induce ftudents to attend their lectures ; otherwife 

 they cannot enjoy that refpeft in fociety that their Ita- 

 tion requires. Hence it happens that no man who 

 does not feel himfclf qualified for teachi:ig with ap- 

 plaufe, can have any inducement to covet a medical 

 chair in thij univerfity •, although, to a perfon pro- 

 perly qualified, ths emoluments of office fometimes 

 may exceed a thoufand pounds a year. 



3d, The feticitiis acadi-micus has no power whatever 

 over the ftudents ex cathedra^ nor are there any rules 

 prefcribcd for the method of ftudy, or any otlier par- 

 ticular ; every ftudent being at entire liberty to live 

 •wliere or how he pleafjs, to attend whatever clafles 

 he inclines, and to be punctual or remifs in that 

 attendance, as lie thinks proper. The regulated 

 fees are three guineas foreacii clafs. That 6f agriculture 

 alone, which is one guinea, is an unfortunate exception. 



