The need for reform of the medical examination system / by T. Pridgin Teale.

  • Thomas Pridgin Teale
Date:
1896
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    Appendix B. Address of Sir H. Acland to Council, May 10th, 1877 (Minutes, XIV., 21). Sir B. Brodie, writing with the consummate knowledge of a life of observation and exertion, says : ' In accordance with j'our view of the matter, Sir Walter Scott has somewhere observed the best part of every man's education is that which he gives himself ; and I willingly admit that, among those whose intellect is of a higher order, there are many who would ultimately accomplish greater things if, in earlier life, they were left more to their own meditations and inventions than is the case among the more educated classes of the community.' Again, Sir B. Brodie says: ' I may venture to suggest whether, as regards the higher kind of education, too much is not attempted to be done, and whether it would not be better if the students were left to accomplish more for themselves.' Appendix C. Graves' Clinical Medicine, Sydenham Society, p. 2. The human mind is so constituted that, in practical knowledge, its improvement must be gradual. Some become masters of mathe- matics and of other abstract sciences, with such facility, that in one year they outstrip those who have laboured many. It is so, likewise, in the theoretical parts of medicine; but the very notion of practical knowledge implies observation of nature ; nature requires time for her operations; and he who wishes to observe their development will in vain endeavour to substitute genius or industry for time. Page 14. It is not intended to assert that pupils now hear fewer clinical lectures, or attend a shorter time in the hospital, but it may be confidently affirmed that what they hear in these lectures, or see in the hospital, does not rivet attention or excite reflection now as formerly. For the pupil's avocations are so numerous, that he is hurried from one to the other, and has no time to devote to serious reflections upon what he has seen.
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