On the absolute necessity of encouraging, instead of preventing or embarrassing the study of anatomy : with a plan to prevent violating the dormitories of the defunct : addressed to the legislature of Great Britain / by William Rowley.
- Rowley, William, 1742 or 1743-1806.
- Date:
- 1795
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On the absolute necessity of encouraging, instead of preventing or embarrassing the study of anatomy : with a plan to prevent violating the dormitories of the defunct : addressed to the legislature of Great Britain / by William Rowley. 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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![pra'fflifing tlie art without undcrgbirig an ejfami- bation. The Legillature has provided i^enal laws againll ignorance in the medical profeffion; will it be (6onfiflent with wifdom and humanity to pre- vent the ftudent from becoming learned, and tlien puniili him for involuntary ignorance ? Every mode, which can obitrucl anatomical ftudy, mull mduce the groffeft ignorance ; every invention,, which can excite an ardor in ftudents to become fex'cellent ariatotnifls, will be the only means of producing fltilful furgcons ; the abfcnce of which lately in our armies, though it be a delicate fab- ]e€t to mention, has been owing to the want of dead human bodies to diffe6V, and for performing the various operations of furgery, previous to pradlice on the living fubjedl:. Whoever does not comprehend the exa61: courfe of the vefTels, nerves, the directions of mufcular fibres, and, in fhort, anatomy, and who has not praclifed on dead fub- jedls, fo as to well comprehend the refiftance of commended. * It has always been confidered the duty of a phy fician, to aft on clear principles and with energy, or not aft, and be always more folicitous to attack a dlfeafe by efficacious re- medies, than to pleafe the patient's tafte at the hazard of life, or the injury of the conftitution. The ordering trifling faline and fweetened draughts, when diforders demand the moft decided and powerful praftice, is a difgrace to the art j fed tji modus in rebnsy * There is certainly a great difference in the conjlitutions of dif- ferent patients.^ fame abound txiith ferum, others with a fupcralun- dnuce of red particles in the bloody •which form the pallid and florid; tijc fat fupcrabound luith oil, the lean not. Will any confined fyftem he adcqwitc to tifis diverfity f a parts](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22282038_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
