On self-culture and the principles to be observed in the study of medicine : an introductory lecture delivered at St. Bartholomew's Hospital on Monday, October 1, 1849 / by Frederic John Farre.

  • Farre, Frederic John, 1804-1886.
Date:
1849
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Credit: On self-culture and the principles to be observed in the study of medicine : an introductory lecture delivered at St. Bartholomew's Hospital on Monday, October 1, 1849 / by Frederic John Farre. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    found to exhibit nearly all the organic diseases to which the body is subject. While you arc watching disease you will also have the opportunity of seeing its Treatment and of learning the nature of the reparative process, the physiology of reparation. It is not my intention to-day to point out to you the books from which you will derive informa¬ tion on this or other subjects; but I cannot help allud¬ ing to the valuable and original Lectures which have been this year delivered by Mr. Paget, on this subject, at the College of Surgeons, and which have just been published. You will also learn the nature and properties of medi¬ cinal bodies, whether derived from the animal, vegetable, or mineral kingdoms, which are included under the head of Materia Medica, and for a thorough knowledge of which a previous acquaintance with chemistry, com¬ parative anatomy, and botany will be requisite. Pharmacy acquaints us with the mode of preparing and’exhibiting these articles. And their nature and properties, the mode of exhibiting them, their counter¬ vailing action, and the reparative process, together constitute the science of Therapeutics. Here, too, you will find the advantage of first ob¬ serving the treatment of external disease, and the visible alterations produced by treatment. Diseases of the interior of the eye, especially of the iris and inner sur¬ face ot the cornea are very instructive to the student because they afford the opportunity of watching in¬ ternal diseases. I am, therefore, happy to be able to state that two wards are henceforward to be devoted to diseases of the eye, by which arrangement you will have the opportunity of comparing diseases which are often
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