Discourses on medical education, and on the medical profession / By John Ware.

  • John Ware
Date:
1847
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    So far as it remains, it depends more on personal re¬ gard, and reliance on the individual, than upon any general high appreciation of medical knowledge. How ready are people of all classes to trust them¬ selves to men of imperfect education, if not of equivo¬ cal character! How ready are those of even good education and intelligence to set themselves up as final judges upon questions with respect to which men of the largest capacities, trained from youth to the study of such subjects, and grown gray in watching disease, find it very difficult to get at the truth! So much is this the case, that some among us have at times entertained fears with regard to the stability and permanence of our profession, as at present con¬ stituted ; and, rendered timid by the signs of the times, have seriously apprehended that we are to be sooner or later supplanted by some new medical dynasty, if I may so call it. At the same time many, out of the profession, the proselytes of some recent sect, have, almost exultingly, prophesied, that at no very distant period the new system, to which they have given their adhesion, will establish itself upon the ruins of the old. But, while I have not the slightest apprehension o^ this result, and, on the contrary, the most unlimited confidence in our stability and permanence, yet, since it is impossible not to admit the reality of the change to which I have adverted, we are, I think, imperatively called upon to consider seriously our present condition, and to call up for reflection the principles of conduct which will contribute most certainly to establish the
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