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.

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    subject, an extended acquaiatauce with which is not comprised in the curriculum laid down by law for a medical man, the prospectus before me gives you a specific detail of the various, courses of study which the above very general expressions embrace, and all of which have a more or less direct bearing on the study of the healing art, as arbitrarily represented by medicine and surgery. Now, as every teacher in each particular department of knowledge, is well acquainted with its peculiar tendencies to a given end, and takes every possible opportunity of forcibly inculcating the same, I shall not in any great extent anticipate their intentions, and shall, consequently, refrain from endeavouring to analyze the relative merits of the different pursuits which have been pxescribed for you by the legislators of your professional education. To become intimately familiar with them all would be a task of great difficulty, and far beyond the mental gi-asp of the many ; but to learn enough of them for a full comprehension of the principles of our scientific art, is within the range of every average mind that has been, and will be, trained with industry. The regions of enquiry before you, have, in fact,
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