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Dr. Hutchison's Library Card for the University of Glasgow
16 April 1812
Glasgow, Scotland

Credits:
Hutchison House Museum, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

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Dr. Hutchison's Admit to a lecture on Surgery by Robert Allan
15 November 1815
Glasgow, Scotland

Credits:
Hutchison House Museum, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

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Lecture notes from Robert Allens talk on Surgery Procedures
19th Century, Circa 1815
Glasgow, Scotland

Credits:
Hutchison House Museum, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

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Dr. Hutchison's notes on midwifery from his Birth Registry
19th Century, Circa 1815
Scotland

Credits:
Hutchison House Museum, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

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Dr. Hutchison's Notes on Chemistry from his Birth Registry
19th Century, Circa 1815
Scotland

Credits:
Hutchison House Museum, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

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Copy of Graduation Certificate for Dr. Hutchison from the University of Glasgow
21 August 1815
Glasgow, Scotland

Credits:
Hutchison House Museum, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

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Surgeon's Certificate for Dr. Hutchison
19th Century, Circa 1815
Glasgow, Scotland
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Credits:
Hutchison House Museum, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

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In 1815 John completed his training in Glasgow, and received a certificate signed by the proctors and surgeons of the Royal Hospital of Glasgow declaring that he had completed his three month practical training at the hospitals in Glasgow. Successful completion of practicum was a prerequisite for obtaining a medical license.
His certificate is roughly translated as:
We, proctors and surgeons
Of the Royal Hospital of Glasgow
In this edition of his honorable testify to a young man in the ministry John Hutchison of this surgeon's hospitals through the month last of three trained well to urge bear themselves faithfully and in care for the fields entrusted to him diligently times, and in himself skilled to have excelled.
Given by the hospital
Glasgow Region.
1815

On August 21, 1815, the faculty of physicians and surgeons of Glasgow gave license and authorization to John Hutchison to practice the arts of surgery and pharmacy.

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Edingburgh University
19th Century, Circa 1827
Edinbugh, Scotland

Credits:
Youngson, A.J. The Making of Classical Edinburgh (Edinburgh University Press, 1966)

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Following his indenture to Dr. Corkindale and his graduation from the University of Glasgow, Hutchison furthered his education and medical expertise by attending the University of Edinburgh. In 1817 he graduated from there with a license in pharmacology.

With degrees in Surgery and Pharmacology, and armed with five years studying medicine under some of the best known doctors in Scotland, Dr. John Hutchison was ready to face the world.