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
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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.

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    a more elaborate confideration of the fubjed may- be neceflary, than appears in the prefcnt hafly pub- lication ; no labour fhall be fpared to render the nioft fenfible fuggeilions permanent; nor fhall any thing be omitted, that is likely to prove bene- jficial to the profeflion, or to the advantage of fo- ciety in general. An impulfe above private intereft, jiarrow cenfures, or the fiiperficial opinions of thofe who carry through life the infantile im- preffions of the nuriery, has given rife to thefe animadverfions. It would have been criminal to have withheld ufeful intelligence on a fubjedl in which the whole world is interefted, and, in parti- cular, the honour and wifdom of the legiflature of Great Britain. The extenlive confidence amongft all ranks, the author hath enjoyed, as a medical practitioner, for a long period, demands this tri- bute of gratitude to the nation, whatever may be the confequence. The whole iludy of medicine requires regeneration to render it more ufeful to ibciety ; the univerlities, in particular, require renovation in moii departments of fcience ; the' paths to all human knowledge might be abridged and rendered eafy of accefs, were ancient preju- dices abolifhed, and modern difcoveries and im- provements univerfally adopted.* It * Perceiving, early in life, great defecfls in medical education, it occurred to me that the modes were highly iniproveable, and that the road to fcience could be rendered much more eafy of accefs. Above twenty-four years ago I formed a plan, and have» as much as my other avocatipns aud temporary pra(5tical writings would
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