An introduction to the study and practice of medicine : comprising a brief exposition of the various branches of medical knowledge ... / by John Dowson.

  • Dowson, John.
Date:
1834
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Credit: An introduction to the study and practice of medicine : comprising a brief exposition of the various branches of medical knowledge ... / by John Dowson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The study of the syllogistic Logic cannot be recommended with any propriety to the medical student, but in the first and second parts of Watts' Treatise on Logic, he will find many observations and directions calcu- lated to improve the mind, and facilitate the acquisition of medical as well as general knowledge. As conducive to the same im- portant purposes, he may also peruse with great advantage, Locke on the Conduct of the Understanding, and Watts on the Im- provement of the Mind. The study of the New Logic, or Induc- tion, of Lord Bacon might be properly recommended to the medical practitioner, but much of the Novum Organum, in which it is chiefly explained, would not be understood, or if understood, could not be usefully ap- plied to his own art by the medical student. The general principles, however, of the great reformer of philosophy, which are of more
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