The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-10 00:00:00

NEW ARMY MEDICAL SCHOOL.

The Senate of this school met for the first time on
Saturday last at the War-office, Pall-mall, and was
formally constituted by the Secretary of State for
War, under whose administration the school has a
distinct and independent existence. The govern-
ment of the school is ♦ested in its Senate, which
will hold its meetings for the dispatch of business
at least once a month, or oftener if necessary.
At this meeting there were present :—The Right
Hon, S. Herbert, Secretary of State for War, and
the following members of Senate, namely :—Jas. B.
Gibson, Esq., M.D:, C. 8., Director-General of the
Army Medical Department, and President of the
Senate; J. R. Martin, Esq., F.R.S., Examining
Physician to the Secretary of State for India in
Council ; J. R. Taylor, Esq., C. 8., Inspector-Gene-
ral of Hospitals and Principal 'Medical Officer at
Fort Pitt, Chatham ; Chas. Morehead, Esq., M D.,
Professor of Military Medicine and of Clinical
Medicine ; Thos. Longmore, Esq., Deputy-Inspec-
tor-General of Hospitals, and Professor of
Military Surgery and of Clinical Surgery ;
E. A. Parkes, Esq., M.D., Professor of Hygiene ;
W. Aitken, Esq., M.D., Professor of Pathology. To
these gentlemen are entrusted the regulation of the
business of the school ; but no act of the Senate is
binding till it has received the approval of the Sec-
retary of State for War.

Ire 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 spe-
cialities of the military medical service.
The Invalid Hospital at Fort Pitt, the garrison
and other military hospitals at Chatham, afford a
very large and important field of study for the
young medical officer of the army. It is intended
that this field of medical observation shall be fully
taken advantage of; and the four professors already
named have been appointed to direct and superin-
tend the courses and methods of practical investiga-
tion 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 for 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 be'st results may be ex-
pected from the institution of this school.
Dr. Morehead has spent a long period of his life
in India, and has been a most successful clinical
teacheri in the Grant Medical College of Bombay.
He
e has earned for himself a most excellent reputa-
tion by his writings, and especially by his " Clini-
cal Researches on the Diseases of India ;" a work
which
was published at the request of 'the then
Indian Government, anddie is the text-book followed
modified by the climfatnet
by all our arm
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wilds of Bulgaria, and the militaryl hospitals in the
and still more recently, he hPasaidnis of the Crimea;
1 self as a sanitary officer in India during'tinpish him-
' and trying campaigns in that vast the recent
empire.
Br. Parkes is well known as a most successful and
popular teacher in University College and its Hoi-
Thoroughly practical in 1'
Pital • us rnethot' s ofob-
servation and research, he was entrusted in .1831bythe then Secretary of State for War (Lord Pan
-
inure), with the responsible office of selecting a site
for a large military hospital, and to superintend its
administration. It is well known how successfully
he accomplished his task ; and how admirable all
those hygienic arrangements were devised and car-
ried out in the beautiful hospital huts of Renkioi,
on the Dardanelles.
Dr. Aitken is well known as a pathologist and
as a teacher. lie was a teacher of anatomy in the
University of Glasgow for six years, and patholo-
gist at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary; and he too
received an appointment from the Secretary for War
as a commissioner in pathology, to proceed to the
seat of war in the East to investigate the nature of
the diseases from which our troops were suffering
in the hospitals at Scutari. It is known how he
executed his difficult task. He is also the author of
numerous papers on pathology, and on other topics
in the science of medicine, as well as of a valuable
and skilfully arranged hand-book of the science of
medicine, which is recommended as a text-book by
the professors of medicine in the universities or
Oxford and London, and is used in many other me-
dical schools.

We believe that these appointments will be uni-
versally approved by the great bulk of the medical
profession, and trust that the New Ai my Medical
School will fully realise the best wishes of those
who have labourod through good and bad report to
accomplish its fuundation.—Medical Tithes.

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