Medical examinations and physicians requirements considered / by Thomas Mayo.

  • Mayo, Thomas, 1790-1871.
Date:
1857
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    of my case with a strong hand. I wished to do so, in order that they may be at least understood. And I am justified by the fact, that I am unfolding principles, not attacking rival institutions. I can, indeed, afford to admit the frequent valuableness of competitive examinations, even while I insist that there are peculiar elements in the case, which render them questionable when applied to the whole sum of the candidate's qualifications. Let us for a moment consider the elements com- prised in clinical medicine:—^the appreciation of vital actions as modified by constitution and temperament; the selection of remedies, sometimes made with the rapidity of an instinctive process, sometimes through a broad general principle, sometimes from an hypo- thesis constructed on experience and conjecture; an acquaintance with the numerous relations in which remedies stand to each other, or are singly applicable, points of view in which our late lamented President delighted to estimate them;—these are elements of clinical medicine. But the qualifications implied in their possessor, all important as they are, may make but a poor show against the prowess of the candidate who has got up with the distinctness and definiteness of which chemistry and physiology are