An introductory address, delivered at the London Hospital Medical School, at the opening of the session 1850-51 / by Nathaniel Ward.

  • Ward, Nathaniel, 1820-1866
Date:
1850
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Credit: An introductory address, delivered at the London Hospital Medical School, at the opening of the session 1850-51 / by Nathaniel Ward. 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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    but a third of the time occupied in your preliminary studies ; and this comparatively short interval is all that is at your command ; and what have you to accomplish in it ] You have to qualify yourselves for the prevention and judicious treatment of the maladies to w^hich the human frame is liable. In order to perform this, what a multitude of subjects crowd upon the mind! You have not only merely to contemplate man as he exists, on the one hand, in all the enjoyment of physi- cal and mental health; and on the other, the victim of disease, both of mind and body ; but you have also to direct your best energies to as com- plete a comprehension as possible, of the processes and of the laws that determine the varied changes in the one state and in the other. You will have, consequently, to study the relations of man to external nature, and in this pursuit, to go through a series of attractive enquiries conducted into many divisions of the inorganic kingdom; to penetrate into the arcana of animal and vege- table life, to study Their bearings and their ties, Their strong connections, nice dependencies, Gradations just;