An address delivered in Mr. Overend's Museum, at the opening of the Sheffield School of Anatomy and Medicine, on Friday, October 17, 1828 / by Corden Thompson, M.D.

  • Thompson, Corden.
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1828
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Credit: An address delivered in Mr. Overend's Museum, at the opening of the Sheffield School of Anatomy and Medicine, on Friday, October 17, 1828 / by Corden Thompson, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cesity of becoming practically acquainted with the human structure. And though the opinions of Boerhaave exerted a most extensive influence over the medical world, yet the labours of this truly great and distinguished individual, tended, on the whole, greatly to advance the science of medicine. The spirit of practical research which pervaded philosophy, soon detected the errors of theory. A novel impulse, too, was presently given to every branch of medical literature by the genius of the immortal Haller, whose acuteness, depth, and comprehensiveness of mind, are not less surprising than the immensity of his literary undertakings. Men were not now to be led astray by the wild ravings of the fanatical Stahl, who converted the soul into a sort of deus ex macliina, attri- buting to it the regulation and perform- ance of every action and function of the body, even to its very production. Since the time of Haller, whose numerous discover- ies, whose zeal, industry, and talents have rendered him for ever worthy of aclmira-
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