Address delivered to students of medicine in the University of Glasgow after graduation : session 1882-83 / by W.T. Gairdner, M.D., LL.D., Professor of Medicine.
- William Tennant Gairdner
- Date:
- 1884
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Credit: Address delivered to students of medicine in the University of Glasgow after graduation : session 1882-83 / by W.T. Gairdner, M.D., LL.D., Professor of Medicine. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![in an almost contemptuous disparagement of medical physio- logists, whom he seemed to consider as quite out of their place in a physiological laborator}^ at all. We want physiology, he remarked, studied as a branch of pure biological science. The medical man, and especially the medical student, has quite other objects, and they are not at all in accordance with ours. He has got his Boards to satisfy, and then his bread to win. For research, in any true sense of the word, he is utterly useless, and even an impediment. We don't want any such men here. I take pains to add, and I do so without communication with either of them, that I believe neither Professor Foster nor my friend Professor Humphry, of Cambridge, would have en- dorsed this deliverance of an enthusiast without some considerable reservation. But as it stands it may serve to show what is the outcome of the feelings that were equally apparent in Schiller's lecture on the Brotgelehrte, w^hen a purely scientific judgment is applied to such a subject as physiology—the very basis of all your regular studies in medicine here, and the only genuine and real oundation for the whole art of medicine, if it is ever to be lifted out of the slough of empiricism. In an enlightened and advanced physiology we—that is, the ])ractitioners and teachers of the healing art—are daily coming to recognise more and more the whole method and direction, as it were, of the business of our lives. And just at this juncture we begin to find the advanced and purely](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21464224_0009.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
