| Description Of Item | From the papers of Richard Poole. The report was on regulation of the medical profession. Also includes associated papers and correspondence lettered a-o: item no 2 of the report - Professor Turner's proposition; last clause for item 5 of the report; alterations to the reports propositions by Professor Turner and Poole; Dr Maclagan's proposition on item 15 of the report; Dr Christison's version of Dr Maclagan's proposition; proposed alteration to no 7 of the report; letter from J Small returning the scroll copy of the resolutions on medical education; letter from David Maclagan returning a copy of the conference proceedings; scroll minute of committee 27th February 1834; scroll alterations on propositions; copy of resolutions with Dr [William Pulteney] Alison's markings; last draft of the propositions; notes on the monopoly of education enjoyed by the university; opinions of apothecaries and druggists on the propositions (letters from John Macfarlane, Robert Scott, James Orr, James Gardner, John [?] Duncan and Robert Lindsay); two tables (one printed, one manuscript) of the curricula of different bodies; sederunt of meetings of the Joint Committee on medical education 6th October and 8th October 1834; letters from J H Davidson on the wording of the resolution and discussions between the university and the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons; printed extracts from the minutes of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh relative to the committee on Dr Poole's letter regarding the admission of fellows with the report by that Committee dated 18th July 1838; and printed propositions relative to the education and privileges in medicine and medical practitioners agreed on by the medical and surgical professors in the university, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh October 1838. |