XXiv. QUATERCENTENARY STUDIES IN PATHOLOGY 



Demonstrator in Edinburgh he was entrusted with the forma- 

 tion of a Class of Practical Morbid Anatomy and Pathological 

 Histology. The class was perhaps the only one of the kind at 

 the time in this country and, although purely voluntary, was 

 attended by the whole of the students enrolled in the Systematic 

 Class, and by many of those getting their education in the extra- 

 mural school. He also succeeded to the office of Pathologist to 

 the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, on its becoming vacant shortly 

 after he became Demonstrator in the University. 



On taking up his duties in Aberdeen everything had to be 

 organised from the commencement. Accommodation had to be 

 found somewhere for the new classes of Systematic and 

 Practical Pathology, a matter of no little difficulty in the then 

 restricted space occupied by Marischal College. Through the 

 acquiescence and kindness of the Professor of Medical Juris- 

 prudence, Dr. Francis Ogston, his class-room was converted 

 into a laboratory, and this for many years constituted practically 

 the only premises belonging to the Chair. Here the class of 

 students for years was instructed by relays in Practical Morbid 

 Anatomy, Histology, and Bacteriology, while the Systematic 

 Lectures were delivered in whatever class-room for the time 

 being could admit of them. 



Fortunately the newly appointed Professor had brought 

 with him a sufficiency of material to start working upon, and 

 with this he had to be content for some time to come. The 

 Chair, unlike that in Edinburgh, did not possess any connection 

 with the Infirmary, and hence the teaching in the one could 

 not be associated with that in the other. In course of time, 

 however, the pathologist to the Infirmary, Dr. Rodger, resigned 

 office, and a strong appeal was addressed to the Managers 

 to have the new Professor installed in his place, an appeal 

 which was listened to and acted upon by them, so that the 

 two Departments, that of the University Chair and that of the 



