A speech delivered at a quarterly statutory meeting of the Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh, on the 15th of January 1825, accusing James Hamilton of having published a false and calumnious libel against the Senatus Academicus as a corporate body; against the institutions of medicine, as a branch of education at Edinburgh; and against the present professor of institutions of medicine, as an individual / by Andrew Duncan.

Andrew Duncan

Date:: 1825

Credit: A speech delivered at a quarterly statutory meeting of the Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh, on the 15th of January 1825, accusing James Hamilton of having published a false and calumnious libel against the Senatus Academicus as a corporate body; against the institutions of medicine, as a branch of education at Edinburgh; and against the present professor of institutions of medicine, as an individual / by Andrew Duncan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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In teaching the Practice of Medicine, the lec- turer proceeds from descriptions of diseases to in- dications of cure; from indications to remedies. In the Tiierapeutics, the order is reversed. He proceeds from remedies to indications; from indi- cations to diseases. Of this important branch of the Institutions of Medicine, I hold so high an opinion, that, at a very early period of my life, I made Therapeutics the subject of a particular course of Lectures at Edinburgh. The heads of these Lectures, Sir, were published in the year 1770, under the title of Elements of Therapeu- tics. And, although much has since been written on the Methodus medendi generalis, both at home and abroad, yet these Elements are still frequently quoted, with approbation, by zealous cultivators of medical science, anxious for the im- provement of the healing art. In the Lectures on the Institutions of Medi- cine, at present delivered in the University of Edinburgh, even Dr Hamilton will not dare to assert that this important branch of medical sci- ence is neglected. Since arriving, indeed, at a very advanced age, I have entirely relinquished it to my coadjutor Dr Alison. Confining my own lectures to what may strictly be called the Philosophy of Medicine, I have relinquished the Therapeia generalis entirely to him. Dr Alison has extended the therapeutics to a much greater length than was ever done before in the Univer-

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