The black arts in medicine : with anniversary address / by John D. Jackson ; edited by L. S. McMurtry.

  • John Davies Jackson
Date:
1880
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Credit: The black arts in medicine : with anniversary address / by John D. Jackson ; edited by L. S. McMurtry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    know that I can adduce any arguments, or the opinions of any, entitled to more authority concern- ing the necessity of its cultivation by us, than have been adduced by Sir Astley Cooper and Sir Benja- min Brodie. The former has said : Let it always be remembered, that operations can not be safely undertaken by any man, without his possessing a thorough knowledge of anatomy. This is the real ground-work of all surgical science. It has ever been found that half anatomists are bungling prac- titioners ; ignorance here, as it always does, gives confidence without power. * * * With us the march of improvement has been most rapid ; and it has principally arisen from the assiduity with which the modern surgeons have pursued their dissectinff-room avocations. The latter, when once conversmg in private with a young American who had just taken his degree in medicine, said : If you wish, my young friend, to give breadth to your medical conceptions and confidence to your hand, if j'ou wish, indeed, to make yourself a great surgeon, let me say to you, as I would to all with whom I have influence, never for a moment cease the cultivation of anatomical science. Now it will not do to excuse ourselves by saying that, being country doctors, we make no special preten- sions to surgery, and that the remarks quoted were
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