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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: mute.1 This is excellent when it is confined to the statement of discovery, or the constantly evolving laws of knowledge, or of matter. But the young men have now almost the whole field to themselves Chemistry and Physiology have become, to all men above forty, impossible sciences; they dare not meddle with them; and they keep back from giving to the profession their own personal experience in matters of practice, from the feeling that much of their science is out of date; and the consequence is, that, even in matters of practice, the young men are in possession of the field. Fruit is pleasantest and every way best when it is ripe; and practical observation, to be worth anything, must be more of a fruit than a blossom, and need not be plucked when green. ' Plutarch, ' says old Heberden, ' has told us that the life of a vestal virgin was divided into three portions: in the first she learned the duties of her profession, in the second she practised them, and in the third she taught them to others.' This he maintained, and we cordially agree with him, was no bad model for the life of a physician, and he followed ithimself, as shown by his motto prefixed to his Classical Commentaries, ?Tepotv /cat Ka/ii/civ Ovkcti Svva- /.fvos, Tovto To /3i/3iov lypao. are often too hastily made, and sometimes perhaps entirely dressed in the closet. We dare not at present be too particular, but the next age will discern many instances of perhaps the direct falsehoods, and certainly the many mistakes in fact, produced in the present age concerning the powers and virtues of medicine.'? Treatise on the Matcria Medica, chap. ii. article iv. pp. 142-153. 'See Note B. George filius may explain to the admiring George pater, the merits and arcana of his Prichett rifle, or his Deane and Adams' revolver...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217490788 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217490786 |
| Weight | 0.80 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.55 In |
| List Price | $20.31 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 244 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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