Address to the community, on the necessity of legalizing the study of anatomy / by order of the Massachusetts Medical Society.

  • Massachusetts Medical Society.
Date:
1829
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Credit: Address to the community, on the necessity of legalizing the study of anatomy / by order of the Massachusetts Medical Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    We are aware, that if our wishes are ever real- ized, an increased burden will be thrown upon the profession,—and the practice of physic is already no sinecure. The road to eminence, in which all hope to travel, is the rugged, toilsome path of labor and endeavor : it has no bowers of ease and luxurious reclining. The physician will receive no immediate personal benefit by superadding to his present la¬ bors the additional one of anatomical dissections ; for this every physician must do, to keep pace with the improvement of his profession. But he will reap an ample reward in seeing the true dignity and respectability of his profession advanced, and its beneficial influence upon the health and happi¬ ness of the human race abundantly increased. A. L. PEIRSON, JOHN C. WARREN, WILLIAM INGALLS, GEO. C. SHATTUCK, JOHN WARE, NATHANIEL MILLER, JOHN BROOKS, JOHN D. WELLS, NEHEMIAH CUTTER, > Committee. Boston, Dec. 1829.