Page:Anon 1830 Remarks on some proposed alterations in the course of medical education.djvu/3



The spirit of innovation and reform has assailed the penetralia of our Scottish Universities, and the period may not be far distant, when these useful and popular institutions will furnish a splendid Auto-da-fe to illuminate the pageantry of learned and liberal legislators. Many an oration is pronounced lamenting the defectiveness or degeneracy of our indigenous systems of University education; and invoking, with dignified pomp and melting pathos, applause and imitation of continental systems. The decrees of Milan and Berlin were not more rigorous and exclusive, than those which some erudite Napoleons are wishing to enact, for the leading-strings of our Faculties.

The public seem to take comparatively little interest