Editing James Syme (section)

==Clinical teaching==
In 1824–25, he founded the Brown Square School of Medicine, but again disagreed with his partners in the venture. Announcing his intention to practise surgery only after being unable to fill a vacancy at [[Edinburgh Royal Infirmary]], Syme started a surgical hospital of his own, [[Minto House]] hospital.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fisher |first1=Richard B. |title=Joseph Lister, 1827-1912 |date=1977 |publisher=Stein and Day |location=New York |isbn=9780812821567|oclc=2595463|page=59}}</ref>

He worked there from May 1829 to September 1833, with great success as a surgical charity and school of clinical instruction. It was here that he first put into practice his method of clinical teaching, which consisted in having the patients to be operated or prelected upon brought from the ward into a lecture-room or theatre where the students were seated conveniently for seeing and taking notes.<ref name="Chisholm_P285"/>

His private practice had become very considerable, his position having been assured ever since his [[amputation]] at the hip joint in 1823, the first operation of the kind in Scotland. In 1833 he succeeded [[James Russell (surgeon)|James Russell]] as professor of clinical surgery in [[Edinburgh University]]. Syme's accession to the clinical chair was marked by two important changes in the conditions of it: the first was that the professor should have the care of surgical patients in the infirmary in right of his professorship, and the second, that attendance on his course should be obligatory on all candidates for the medical degree. When Liston removed to London in 1835 Syme became the leading consulting surgeon in Scotland.<ref name="Chisholm_P285"/> In 1837 he was elected a member of the [[Harveian Society of Edinburgh]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Minute Books of the Harveian Society|url=http://archives.rcpe.ac.uk/calmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=DEP%2fHAR%2f1%2f1%2f1&pos=17|location= Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://wellcomecollection.org/works/ww4e59xv|title= A Record of the Edinburgh Harveian Society|last=Watson Wemyss|first=Herbert Lindesay|publisher=T&A Constable, Edinburgh|year=1933|language=en}}</ref>