Owen, Hunter and Harvey : a letter to the Presidents and Council of the Association for the Advancement of Medicine by Research / by the author of Hunter and the stag.

  • Adams, Charles
Date:
1882
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Credit: Owen, Hunter and Harvey : a letter to the Presidents and Council of the Association for the Advancement of Medicine by Research / by the author of Hunter and the stag. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    And here Harvey was simpl)^ of his time. He cut open a dog with no more thought of cruelty and probably much less consciousness of wrong than, as a schoolboy he might have cut open his sister's doll. And the fault was the fault of his time. It was not for the brutality of his vivisections that his contemporary critics blamed him but for their vain glory. And in all else—in singleness of purpose, in modesty of self-estimate, in moderation of tone even towards opponents whose claims to it at his hands were very small he sets to controversialists of ever}^ class an example which, in the last particular at least I confess that I for one find it sometimes easier to appreciate than to follow. May I hope that in this last particular I shall find it followed by that great Association to whose Presidents and Council I have ventured most respectfully to address this humble contribution towards the advance- ment of medicine by research ?
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