The state of the medical profession in Great Britain and Ireland / by William Dale.

  • Dale, William
Date:
1875
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Credit: The state of the medical profession in Great Britain and Ireland / by William Dale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE IMPORTANCE OF THE forgot. But, on the other hand, there are many tilings connected with Medical Science one gladly calls to mind, and cannot easily forget:—its great names—names of men who were giants in their day Wiseman, Mead, the Hunters, Harvey, Cooper, Abernethy, Lawrence, Graves, Hey, Teal, Simpson] Syme, Louis, Pinel, Laennec, and a host besides, who, though they have gone from us, will never bo dead to the memory, for their names are as oint- ment poured forth ; its lenevohnce and philanthropy, as shown in the gratuitous services of our large hos- pitals^ and amongst our poor; its benign discoveries, to which suffering humanity is so much indebted; the Ligature for bleeding vessels and aneurism; the Opthalmoscope for investigating diseases of the eye ; the Laryngiscope for examining the larynx and adjacent parts; the Lythotrite for crushing stone in the bladder, when its removal in the usual way is fraught with danger; the various Mechanical con- trivances for the relief and cure of fractures and deformities: and last, though not least, Chloroform, that immeasurable boon to poor suffering humanity, which has made surgical operations a pleasure rather than, as formerly, an odious and revolting duty. In these days, medicine is being emancipated from vain theory, but is not yet free. It is bringing Bacon's philosophy to bear upon all the questions it attempts to grasp, but still clings more or less to old traditions. Day by day, however, like all the sciences, it will find fuller scope and truer freedom in the application and observation of facts alone; and, with its more exact physiology and pathology, its improved chemical research, and its tentative and questioning therapeutics, we cannot doubt but the achievements of the past will bear no comparison to the glory and success of the future. From these
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