The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-06 00:00:00

NEW ARMY MEDICAL SCHOOL.

(From the Medical Times.)
The senate of thin school met for the first time
on Saturday last, at the War-offioe, Pali mall, and was
formally constituted by the Secretary of State for War,
under whose administration the school has a distinct and

independent existence. The government of the school is
vested he ite senate, which will hold its meetings for the
dispatch of business at least once a month, or oftener if
. At this meeting there were present : The Right
Hon. ey Herbert, Secretary of State for War, and the
following men hereof senate, namely :—lames Brown Gibson,
Esq., M.D., C. 8., Director-General of the Army Medical
Department, and President of the Senate ; J. R. Martin,
Heq., Examiniag Physician to the Seen." of
State for India in Council; John Robert Tayke, Esq., C. 8.,
Inspector-General of Hospitals and Princireil Medical Officer
at Fort Pitt, Chatham; Charles Morehead, Faq., N.D.,
Professor of MliMary Medicine and of Clinical Medicine ;
Thomas Longmore, Fiq Deputy-Inspector-General of Hos-
pitals, and Professor of Military Surgery and of Clinical
Surgery; Edmund A. Parkes, Faq., M.D., Profaner of
Hygiene; William Aitken, Faq.,M.D. , Professor of Pathology.
To them gentlemen are entrusted the regulation of the busi-
ness of the school; but no act of the senate is binding till it
has received the approval of the Secretary of State for War.
We are glad to see, from the organisation of the school,
that its functions do not supersede, nor in any way take the
place of, the instruction given at the medical colleges and
schools of the country. The instruction to be given at the
Army School is of a practical kind, and exclusively directed
to the specialties of the military medical service. Tice invalid
hospitals! Fort Pitt, the garrison and other military hospi-
tals at Chatham, afford a very large and important field of
study for the young medical officer of the army. It is in-
tended that this field of medical observation shall be fully
taken advantage of ; and the four professors already named
have been appointed to direct and superintend the courses and
methods of practical investigation which have been deemed
the most essential for the requirements of the army medical
service. The professional reputation of the gentlemen who
have been appointed professors to the school is a sufficient
guarantee fur the ability, energy, and skill with which the
work of instruction will be directed ; and which at the same
time leads us to entertain the hope that the beet result.*
may be expected from the institution of this school.
Dr. Morehead lure spent a long period of his life in Ind*
and has been • most successful Clinical teacher in the Grant
Medical College of Bombay. He has earned for himself a
most excellent reputation by his writings, and especially by
his "Clinical Researches on the Diseases of India;" • work
which was published at the request of the then Indian
government, and is the text-book followed by all our army
medical officers who require a guide for the treatment
of disease as they find it modified by the climate of India.
Mr. Loogmore, of the Army Medical Departnient, was a
student of Guy's Hospital, and • distinguished pupil of the
late Sir Astley Cooper. He be. signalised himself in the
army medical service by his surgical skill, as well as uy him
successful administration of the military hospitals in the wilds
of Bulpria, and the plains of the Crimea ; and Mill more re.
cently he has distinguished himself as • sanitary officer in
India during the recent and trying campaigns in that vast
empire. Dr. Parkes is well known an • most successful
and popular teacher in University College and its hos-
pital. Thoroughly practical in his methods of ob-
servation and research, he was entrusted in 1854
by the then Secretary of State for War (Lord
Panmure), with the responsible office of selecting a site
for • large military hospital, and to superintend its admini-
stration. It is well known bow successfully he accomplished
his task ; and how admirable all those hygienic arrange.
meets were daybed and carried out in the beautiful hos-
pital huts of Renkioi, on the Dardanelles. Dr. Aitken ie
well known as a pathologist and ea a teacher. He was •
teacher of anatomy in the University of Glasgow for six
years, and pathologist at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary ; and
he too received an appointment from the Secretary of
State for War as a commissioner in pathology, to pro.
need to the seat of war in the Fast to investigate the
nature of the diseases from which our troops were suffering
in the hospitals at Scutari. It is known how be executed
his difficult task. He is also the author of numerous papers
on pathology, and on other topice in the science of medi-
cine, as well as of a valuable and skilfully-arranged band.
book of the science of medicine, which is recommended as •
text-book by the professors of medicine is the Universities
of Oxford and London, and is used in many other medical
schools. We believe that these appointments will be uni-
versally approved by the great bulk of the medical profer-
sioa, and trust that the sew Army Medical School will fully
realise the best wishes of those who have laboured through
good sad had report to accomplish its foundation.

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