The need of research in medicine : the Harveian oration delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London on St. Luke's Day, 1907 / by Frederick Taylor.

Sir Frederick Taylor, 1st Baronet

Date:: 1908

Credit: The need of research in medicine : the Harveian oration delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London on St. Luke's Day, 1907 / by Frederick Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$differences wliicli must exist while human minds are as they are, and they do not pre- vent that mutual respect and affection for one another which Harvey was so desirous to see perpetuated. We can at the present time faithfully say that the feeling is not confined to the Fellows or members of this College but is extended to other members of our great profession, to the sister College with whom we have had during more than twenty years the most friendly and intimate scientific and educational relations. The motto of this College should never be forgotten: 6 j3lOf j3pa\VQ 7] $£ T£\Vi] fACUCpi]. Wagner in £ Faust5 says : “ The search of knowledge is aweary one, and life how short! How often have the heart and brain, overtasked, Shrunk back despairing from enquiries vain ! Oh ! with what difficulty are the means Acquired, that lead us to the springs of know- ledge ! And when the path is found, ere we have trod Half the long way—poor wretches! we must die! ”$