A Course Of Lectures On The Institutes Of Practice Of Medicine

Author : Samuel Jackson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781396616594
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book A Lecture on Medical Education written by Samuel Jackson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Lecture on Medical Education: Introductory to the Course of the Institutes of Medicine, in the University of Pennsylvania, for the Session 1833-34 Devoid Of self-sustaining principles, medicine was compelled to seek support from collateral aids. For a time, it reposed in the embraces Of Grecian philosophy, and was indebted for its funda mental dogmas to the doctrines Of the various schools, consti tuting the speculative science of that highly endowed race, and intellectual age. Passing thence to the modern era, medicine was plunged into the depths of darkness and superstition that en gulfed the human understanding. Cabalism, theosophy, magic and astrology, furnished the basis on which it was erected. Es caping from these absurdities, it sought refuge in, and looked for assistance from the visionary speculations of the alchemists. It then became a department of physics and mechanics - was next allied to the wildest metaphysics, and connected with the rudest chemistry. It has been alternately a doctrine Of humoralism, solidism, vitalism, and. Always more or less deeply imbued with dogmatism and empiricism. From this imbecile dependency on other departments of science for its principles, medicine is now rapidly escaping. It has as sumed in the circle of the sciences an independent station. It is forming the body of its science, looking for and attempting to establish its fundamental dogmas in the co-ordination of its own facts; first verifying the truth of its facts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.