Fundamental conceptions as to the characteristics and embodiments of life, with special reference to pathology : being the inaugural lecture at the foundation of the Chair of Pathology ... delivered in the Bute Hall 22nd October, 1894 / by Joseph Coats, M.D.

  • Coats, Joseph, 1846-1899.
Date:
1894
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    THE CHARACTERISTICS AND EMBODIMENTS OF LIFE. I stand here to give the Inaugural Lecture, as the Frrst Professor of Pathology in this University. It is naturally and legitimately a source of personal satis- faction that I have, without solicitation, been called to occupy this position. In the case of the establishment ol a new Chair, however, such personal matters sink into insignificance in view of the interests of the University The establishment of this Chair has filled up what has long been regarded as a gap in the University staff Of the three Universities of Scotland with medical schools Glasgow has been the last to acquire a Chair of Pathology. Edinburgh obtained its Chair so lono ago as 1831, and Aberdeen, through the munificence of ■Sir Erasmus Wilson, had its Chair established in the year 1882 In regard to this matter there are two remarks which I shall make. The first is that, even wit lout a Chair, the students were not left without miction m Pathology; and we may even presume hat this instruction was counted satisfactory by the University authorities, else the defect would have been sooner remedied. I may even be allowed to lay the flattering unction to my soul which this reflection suo gests. Indeed the teaching will suffer no appreciable change by the institution of the Chair.