The experimental method in medical science : second course of the Cartwright Lectures of the Alumni Association, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York delivered January 24, January 31, and February 7, 1882 / by John C. Dalton.

  • John Call Dalton
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1882
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Credit: The experimental method in medical science : second course of the Cartwright Lectures of the Alumni Association, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York delivered January 24, January 31, and February 7, 1882 / by John C. Dalton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MEDICAL SCIENCE. LECTURE I. GALVANI AND GALVANISM IN THE STUDY OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Alumni, — In dis- charging the agreeable duty which you have kindly im- posed upon me, of giving the Cartwright Lectures for this year, I propose to offer a few historical sketches, which shall illustrate the manner in which certain parts of our scientific knowledge in medicine have been attained. The connection between scientific and practical medicine is furthermore so close, that permanent improvement in the one is inseparably dependent on that of the other; but this connection becomes much more apparent when we trace the history of any particular department for a con- siderable period of time. By this means we can see how much of the doctrine accepted by our predecessors has survived the ordeal of a century, and what were the methods of investigation which produced in their hands the permanent results which we enjoy to-day. However much we may pride ourselves on the advances made dur-