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CIRCULAR. 
 
 To the Honorable, the Members of the ExeciUioe Council, the Legislative Council, 
 and House of Assembly. 
 
 The Medical Faculty of McGill College deem it a duty they owe to themselves, to put 
 forth the following statement, to protect themselves from unfounded accusations whicli have been, and 
 still continue to be, circulated to their prejudice, and which, if not contradicted might injuriously influ- 
 ence the minds of Honorable Members of the I'l\:ecutive Council, and of both Houses of Provincial 
 Parhament, iu coming to a decision upon their Petitions now before the Legislature. 
 
 Twenty-one years ago, Four Medical Practitioners in this city, viz: tlie late Drs. Caldwell, Rob- 
 ertson, and Stephenson, along witii Dr. Holmes, tiie present Professor of Medicine iu McGill College, 
 associated themselves together under the title of the Montreal Medical Institution, for the purpose of 
 communicating to the youth of this Province a knowledge of the important science of Medicine, a 
 privilege which they never before enjoyed, and to procure wliich, most of them, at a great expendi- 
 ture of time and money, were obliged to go to Foreign Countries more highly favored in this res- 
 pect. 
 
 Five years after their formation, the Montreal Medical Institution became, by an arrangement 
 with the Governors of McGill College, sanctioned by His Majesty George IV. incorporated with 
 that University, as its Medical Faculty, and obtained thereby, under a Royal Charter, the power of 
 graduating their Students in Medicine and Surgery. 
 
 At a great sacrifice of time and means, the Medical Faculty continued their labors till the close 
 of the Winter Session of 1835-6, when tlij disturbed political condition of the Province, and the 
 want of support, either from the College or Government, compelled them to desist. Li 1839, upon a 
 promise of support from the H«^ad of the Government, they were again induced to commence Lec- 
 turing, and have continued to do so since that period, with increasing success; the number of Students 
 attending their Lectures last session being upwards of 50. 
 
 The Medical Faculty have been, and are, most anxious to increase the efficiency of the School by 
 the appointment of additional Lecturers, and by extending the Curriculum of study. For the former 
 purpose they have repeatedly petitioned tlie Legislature to augment their annual grant ; and the latter 
 they have been obliged to postpone, in consequence of the proximity of American Institutions, most 
 of v/hich hold out the temptation of obtaining a degree after attendance upon two Courses, averaging 
 from 13 to 16 weeks in duration ; and front the non-existence of any Legislative enactment limitin"' 
 the period of study, and the nature of it, which Students of Medicine, should be required to fulfil. 
 
 The desire of the Medical Faculty is to add Four Chairs to the Six already in operation, and, suc- 
 ceeding in this, to extend the period of study from Three to Four years, making attendance upon oae 
 Course only of each Branch of Medical Science, compulsory, thus enabling the student to obtai'^ a 
 more extended education at less expense than by their present regulations, which demand two Cou. .,>s 
 upon each Branch from every student. 
 
 The Classesnow in operation are Anatomyand Physiology, — Chemistry andPharmaey, — Materia 
 
 Medica and Therapeutics, — Theory and Practice of Physic, — Principles and Pra. .>,o of Surgery, 
 
 Midwifei'y and Diseases of Women and Children ; with Practical Anatomy by a Demonstrator, 
 
 The annual grant of ^6500 was last year expended as follows : — 
 
«Cv^' 
 
 Eiiilowment fur One Trofesor, '^^^0 
 
 Do Five Lecturers, £oO oaeli, 250 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 £3oO 
 
 Salary of Demonstrator, £ 30 
 
 Kent and Assessment of bouse, ^'"' ^ 
 
 ,, , 21 18 
 
 I'uel, 
 
 Wages of Jamtor, 
 
 Sundries, "Water, Furniture, A<lvertising, &e ^^ ^ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 £16.3 19 
 
 folo 19 
 
 5i 
 
 Last year tlie Faculty, with a view to the instruction of Students and Midwives, estal.lishcd a 
 Lying-in Hospital, the expense of which for ten months, amounting to upwards of £130, was borne 
 by themselves. At present they are relieved from this charge by an association of Ladies, to whom 
 the management of the Ciuirity has been transferred. 
 
 Thi^year the expenses of the individual m.-mbers of tlic Faculty have been particularly heavy. 
 There has been imported glass for tlie preservation of preparations for the Museum, to the am.KUit of 
 jC34. Chemical Apparatus, Specimens of Materia Me.lica, Wax Preparations, with a complete Appa- 
 tus for the illustration of Midwifery; Botanical and Anatomical plates, &c., have been added, to the 
 amount of upwards of £(i3, besides which most of the Lecturers have been previously put to consid- 
 erable outlay in the formation of their private cabinets, without which their Lectures could not liavc 
 been properly illustrated. The Library of the Faculty, now numbering about nine hundred volumes, 
 amongst which are most of the recent standard Medical works, has already cost upwards of £.300. 
 The Matriculation and Gratluation fees arc applied toitsuseexelusiv,.ly,andit is annually augmented 
 by the funds arising from these two sources ; the amount paid towards it in 1844, being over £78. 
 
 The Medical Faculty conceive that the remuneration at present alforded to the Lecturers is very 
 inaderpiate to their labor. They lecture from the lirst Monday in November till tlie 1st May, with 
 the exception of a fortnight's vacation at Christmas, giving, each of them, fi-e lectures in the week; the 
 hour spent in lecturing, itself, frequently an inconvenience and loss to persons engaged in the active 
 duties of Medical practice, is but the smallest part of their labor, since all re.piire, some more than 
 others, much time in preparing for their daily duties. 
 
 The objects which the JHedical Faculty have, in petitioning the Legislature for an addition to 
 their annual grant, l^in the first place, to increase the efficiency of their Department, by the estab- 
 lishment of Four additional Chairs, viz ;— Botany, Institutes of Medicine, Medical Jurisprudence, 
 and Clinical IMcdicine and Surgery ; in the second, to give to each Lecturer a more remuner- 
 ative allowance for his laborious duties ; and, lastly, to place themselves in a condition to afibrd to 
 students greater advantages, by increasing the acconnuodation of their School in every point of view; 
 and thus to approximate it more closely to analogous Institutions in the Mother Country. 
 
 To refute a charge of exclusivcness, which has been brought against the Medical Faculty, they 
 have to state that Dr. Bruneau, one of their Lecturers, is a French Canadian, and that overtures to 
 accept Chairs were at different tlm-s made to the late Drs. Labric, Kimber, and Yallec, also to Dr. 
 
Robert Nelson, and more recently to Dr. IJoiithilller, M.r.P. To prove the estimation in which the 
 lectures of the Faculty have hitherto b.'cn held by tlie French Canadian Students, the luUowing 
 statement, extracted from the Register of aiatrieulation.s is submitted : 
 
 From 1824 to 1844— total number attended, ^^'^ 
 
 Of these of French Canadians, there were, 1^'* 
 
 " British, there were -'^ 
 
 142 
 
 Making over one-third French Canadians. 
 
 Since resumption of Lectures in 1S39— total number, ^^^ 
 
 Of these French Canadians ''" 
 
 « British ^^'' 
 
 l!)t 
 
 Making nearly one half French Canadians. 
 
 Tiie a"'"'regate attendance during the two last sessions was ^ 'I 
 
 Of whom were French Canadians ''•* 
 
 « « British, "^^ 
 
 —84 
 
 IMaking more than one half French Canadians. 
 
 The above statement will prove that the delivery of Lectures in English does not deter French 
 Canadian Students from attending them, a fact which is also confirmed by the great number of tliat 
 class who annually resort to American Schools for the purpose of graduation. 
 
 '^ Li conclusion, tlie Medical Faculty have to state that certificates of attendance upon their Lec- 
 tures arc accepted for graduation, as equivalent to their own, by British and French Colleges, an 
 important privilege and a great saving of expense to Students who wish to extend their education by 
 visiting these countries. 
 
 A. F. Holmes, M. D., Professor of Theory and Practice of Phjsic. 
 
 Gko. W. CAMrcF.T-L, M. D., Lecturer on Principles and Practice of Surgery. 
 
 A. IIaix, M. D., Lecturer on Chemistry and Pharmacy. 
 
 M. M'CuLLOCii, M. D., Lecturer on Midwifery and Diseases of JVomen and Children. 
 
 O. T. Bhunkau, M. D., Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology. 
 
 S. C. Sewell, M. D., Lecturer on Materia Medica and Therapeutics. 
 
 Alex. Long, M. D., Demonstrator of Anatomy. 
 
 Montreal, December, 1844.