Thoughts on medical reform / By a retired practitioner [i.e. John Allen].

  • John Allen
Date:
1833
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Credit: Thoughts on medical reform / By a retired practitioner [i.e. John Allen]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2] professional education, five years applications to study should be required from every candidate before he could present himself for examination. But, if in that interval he chose to mingle with his medical pursuits any of the collateral sci- ences, it ought to be no impediment to his gradu- ation, the object of the regulation not being to tie down the student to an invariable course of study, but to require from him such a length of educa- tion as with ordinary parts and attention must fit him for the exercise of his profession. <A particular course of study might be recom- mended in medicine, as the most conducive to improvement, but a servile adherence to it should not be exacted. 1t may be sufficient to require that certain branches of study should precede others ; as for instance, that Anatomy and Chem- istry should go before Physiology and Pathology, that Physiology and Pathology should be studied beforethe Practice of Physic andSurgery and that the Practice of Physic and Surgery should take precedence of clinical lectures in these branches. If any one inverted that order he should be obliged to attend a second time the course of lectures which he had followed before he was qualified to benefit by them. A course of medical education conducted on the preceding plan would comprehend the follow- . ing branches of study, Chemistry and Botany, being placed among: the collateral sciences.
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