Views on some social subjects / by Sir Dyce Duckworth, bt.

  • Dyce Duckworth
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[1915]
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Credit: Views on some social subjects / by Sir Dyce Duckworth, bt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE It is not without some hesitation that I venture to place the following pages before the public. A physician has not many opportunities of stating his opinions, or contributing his varied experiences on matters which lie outside his pro¬ fessional duties, and yet few men can claim to have a wider knowledge of human nature at its best and at its worst. This fact should lend some point and value to his observations. Some of these addresses have already appeared in various publications. They were mostly written in happy holiday retirements. I would describe them as representing impressions which I have gathered in an active professional life, modified, possibly, by experiences of extensive travel in both hemispheres, and some devotion, as time permitted, to other interests than those of Medicine. I imagine that some of the opinions expressed in these pages will raise objections in the minds of the kindest of my readers and critics, and I can only try to forestall their disagreement by