Ophthalmology and diseases of the nervous system, being : the Bowman Lecture, delivered Friday, November 13th, 1885 / by J.Hughlings Jackson.
- John Hughlings Jackson
- Date:
- [1885?]
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Credit: Ophthalmology and diseases of the nervous system, being : the Bowman Lecture, delivered Friday, November 13th, 1885 / by J.Hughlings Jackson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Eeprinted from Vol. VI of the ‘ OphthalmoU^^ Society’s Transactions.’'] OPHTHALMOLdaY AND DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, • 5^ BBING THE BOWMAN LECTURE, Delivered Friday, November ISth, 1885, By J. Hughlings Jackson, M.D., F.R.S. Besides acknowledging the honour of being asked to deliver an address before this Society, I wish to say that I consider it an additional honour that the address is the “ Bowman Lecture/^ Praise from me to Bowman would be impertinence, but here is my opportunity, not only for thanking Sir William Bowman for the benefit which I, like the rest of my profession, have derived from the basic work he has done, but of also tendering him my warmest personal thanks for much encouragement given me in the work I was, many years ago, trying to do. At the same time, I gratefully acknowledge that to his successor in the presidential chair (Mr. Hutchinson) I feel highly indebted for my earliest instruction in ophthalmology, as well as for great help of very many kinds for many years. It was long ago said that division of labour, or, more generally, differentiation, is a universal law. Things become increasingly numerous and more different, or, in other words, more complex. Differentiation is well seen in the development of animal organisms, and is seen, too, in the social organism. It would be very remarkable if there were an exception in the case of one part of the social organism, the body medical,—if in so great a field of work as the medical there did not arise more and-more different workers in different parts of that field. There](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22471406_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
