The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-08-12 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY SCHOOL.

A public distribution of prizes took place yesterday at
the above school. The chair was taker. by J. Cropper,
Esq., president of the Infirmary. Among those present
we observed ,Drs. Inman and Nevins, Messrs. Long,
Padley, Cooper, Batty, Taylor, &c., &c.
The•CriArratAN in opening the proceedings remarked
upon the great degree of interest which was attached to

their prociedingsinteresting alike to Liverpool and to the
gentlemen about to receive the prizes. He was sure that
but for the unfortunate period of the year there would have
been a much larger number of ladies and gentlemen
present, because the paucity of attendance did not
arise from any want of interest felt in their proceed-
ings, or in the Infirmary. Many of them had been
for some period connected with the Infirmary, and they
were now about to receive these prizes, which they
had so ably earned and well deserved. At a future period
the knowledge they had acquired would be brought to
bear in connexion with that noble institution. He had
before him a list of the lecturers, and the subjects and
prizes, and he would call upon the former to distribute
them in due order. (Applause.)
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Mr. LONG next addressed the students. He observed
that the present was the first time prizes had been distri-
buted, and it had fallen to his lot to distribute them. He
referred to the state of the school seventeen years
ago, and stated that it was in the year 1834 that
all the lecturers became associated together in one
body. They bad now been there for a period of
ten years, and there were only two persons remain-
ing who were originally connected with the school.
In his opinion provincial schools were of great value.

Persons were now able to educate their s'o'ns for the
medical profession at a moderate cost. The Liverpool
Infirmary School ranged second to no provincial school.
The number of students was not so great as formerly.
There had been considerable difficulty in getting pupils to
remain longer than three or four years. So far as the
school was concerned, it had not suffered from this cause.
He had been connected with the Infirmary for a period of
seventeen years. Toe greatest number of pupils they had
had was in the years 1842 and 1843. They had since that
time diminished to thirteen or fourteen, and the average
number was about twenty-five. He might add that there
was a greater number of first year's pupils; and therefore,
though the aggregate number of pupils was less, yet,
relatively, it was greater than at any former period. It
was considered by some that medical students were
not the most orderly set of people in society ' • on
the present occasion it gave him great pleasure to bear
testimony to the very creditable manner in which they
had conducted themselves. Mr. Long referred to many
proofs in support of this, and he said he felt particularly
called upon to mention the names of Mr. Taylor and Mr.
Kelly who had considerably distinguished themselves. In
anatomy and physicology he had awarded the former
gentleman the first, and to the latter the second, prizes.
He then alluded to the arduous exertions of those eentle-
men which s i fully entitled them to their rewards. He
awarded the Ist prize to Mr. G. F. Taylor, (anatomy and
physiology) ; 2nd to Mr. J. D. Kelly.
Mr. PADLEY, in a few appopriate remarks, presented
the next prize in anatomy to Mr. J. K. Walker.
Dr. INMAN said that, in the absence of Dr. Brett, the
latter had commissioned him to express the great satis-
faction which he felt at the results of the examination,
and the progress of the students. He, on behalf of Dr.
Brett, presented a certificate of honour to Mr. J. M. de
Mier, for proficiency in chemistry.
Dr. Inman, on behalf of Dr. Dickinson, awarded two
prizes for proficiency in medicine : the Ist, to Mr. G.
J. Taylor; and the 2nd, to Mr. J. D. Kelly. A certificate
of honor was also awarded to Mr. W. Hewitt.

Mr. COOPER awarded the prize for surgery to Mr. G.
S. Taylor, and certificates of honour to Messrs. Kelly,
Roberts, Roocroft, and Walmsley.
Dr. INMAN awarded the prize for Materia Medica to
Messrs. H. Lowndes and J. B. Thompson, and a Certifi-
cate of Honour to Mr. T. H. Walker.

Dr. NEVINS awarded the prize for Botany to Mr.
Henry Wood.
Mr. BATTY awarded the prize for Midwifery to Mr. S.
Walmsley, observing that the examination had been of a
strict kind, and the questions and answers were put and
made in writing, and that he had acquitted himself in a
highly creditable manner.
Dr. INmAN, on behalf of Dr. Brett, said the next prize
awarded was for proficiency in Medical Jurisprudence,
which he gave to Mr. G. S. Taylor, and a Certificate of
Honour to Mr. W. Rowcroft.

Dr. TAYLOR awarded the first prize to Mr. William
Rowcroft, and the second to Mr. J. M. de Meir, for, (we
believe), general proficiency.
The CHAIRMAN, in rising to acknowledge the vote of
thanks which had been awarded hire, said that it afforded
him the highest gratification to hear the testimony of
proficiency in the students which had been given by the
different lecturers. He reminded the students of the
necessity of, and advantage arising from, regularity in
character and habits, the importance of which, in their
period of life, they could not too highly estimate. (Hear.)
He remarked upon the importance of a proper system of
medical education, and on the valuable tuition of the
various lecturers.

Mr. LONG made a few observations in conclusion. He
advised gentlemen to pursue their studies in the metro-
politan school, where, he was sure, they would hold high
places.
The proceedings then terminated.