Outlines of a course of dissections, for the use of the students of anatomy at St. Thomas's Hospital.
- Joseph Henry Green
- Date:
- 1815
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Outlines of a course of dissections, for the use of the students of anatomy at St. Thomas's Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ment ;—want of knowledge how to arrange the numerous but single facts which are oftered to the mind, must be a cause far more potent why their multiplicity has left the student little improved, and have rather tended to perplex than to instruct: so that often he is obliged to be seeking for a plan during the time he is to acquire knowledge ; and when prepared to arrange facts, the time allotted for his studies is expired. Under these Pabicu teeta: the student is to seek the remedy, as far as it may be possible, in ‘his own mind; in it he is to find the causes of failure or the surety of success, and in proportion to its conduct . and activity wil] his end be attained. Ob- servation and induction must be con- stantly alive to examine and fix those ob- jects which will hereafter be useful to him, to illustrate in them every point of practi- cal utility, and to connect with them every depending circumstance of import- vance. In acquiring a knowledge of practical anatomy, or of the parts which compose B 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33090221_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
