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ARTHUR J. BALLANTYNE, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1936;16(6):927-930.

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Clinical ophthalmology has been taught in Glasgow since Dr. William MacKenzie and his colleague, Dr. George Monteith, in 1824, were instrumental in founding the Glasgow Eye Infirmary, and a lectureship in the subject was instituted by Glasgow University in 1828. This lectureship was held in succession by Dr. William MacKenzie (1828-1868), Dr. George Rainy (1868-1869) and Dr. Thomas Reid (1869-1900) and after an interval of eleven years by Dr. A. Maitland Ramsay (1911-1920) and myself (1920-1935).

The lecturer occupied a somewhat anomalous position. In the first place, the university had no special lecture rooms or laboratories for ophthalmology; second, ophthalmology, for purposes of graduation, was essentially a clinical subject, and systematic lectures formed no necessary part of the students' course ; third, qualifying courses in Ophthalmology could be conducted not only by the university lecturer but also by the other surgeons of the special hospitals (the Eye Infirmary and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Tennent Professor of Ophthalmology, Glasgow University, and Visiting Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Western Infirmary, Glasgow GLASGOW, SCOTLAND

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