Medical education : a letter addressed to the authorities of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins University / by Henry W. Acland.

  • Acland, Henry W. (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900.
Date:
1879
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Credit: Medical education : a letter addressed to the authorities of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins University / by Henry W. Acland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    aware that I have necessarily heard much on these questions, both at home aiul abroad, during (lie List tliii tyfive years, a period of unexampled progress ami change. With this preface, I venture to oT’er the following brief observations. 1st. I understand the object of Mi . Hopkins to have been to found in Baltimore, a University; and n Ho: pitnl, which is to b > closely connected with the Medical l.ool of the University. 2nd. ft is impossible to exaggera e tin* importance to Medi 1 Education in the future of s.:«*h an intention and b ■ i tie , carried out with your present l...ow ledge and cxpe- i’; .top'd.in on increasing City of three hundred and fifty t ■ > inlmbi'ants, with extensive ground (between 300 and -10 i a ) sple.. lidly situated, your Univer. ty and your Hos- 7• j 1 \v:’l ave everything that opportunity and site can give. Vu-* mo i d of b e foundation is that of a i isis in Medical K ! > • Ti e experience of the past, and lite knowledge, the u U m 1 ti.o appliances of the present, all combine to i i vo: •• v 'ee».s in some line certain. The direction which tii.i - c • - . ib :.ikc. depends on the foundation which yon now 1 n. 'In-', ive alrea. y too many common medical schools. A a ho i o i oidy jdan'ied for certain important purposes does not oit. ; e!i a Mel ool I understand you intend to found. 3-d V- t i- • let n training of a scientific medical man, three i fin • , • j o ’ mind are needed: ( r) isc > -.cl by general literary culture. (’•). . o :«• •! •;><*!i I1 : ou special scientific attainments. ( ) • wliio -e from close observation of the living sir ., f. . . ■(., ,.:;!o .ipanied with investigation of the dead. ft 11 b of • ■ -(ii s of qualities is to be fostered, speak’ . spe tial period of life, by a special couj-m . i 1 wit ii special opportunities. They i i keu . bee tiled the School, the University and tie* . i.i , I pc.. ,i:.. .'here is a tendency to draw a hard line lie ., r ; e. 1, is easy to show that this is an unneces- sary, a id o, i n ui i ib- -’ — o for the best minds. Much li ui- i p, ..less endeavors to decide whether rii\.-i . a - .ih ...v and Animal Physiology,any or all, should • .e ises eoulluei 1 to the school period, whether eVaiuai ion m i., deed i t ike tdace at one time, or whether any o .HI dm hi oi let. u the p 1 of medical studies. What a |.«m s in it • , i hi ai, i . ■ ‘i . ,should all be studied in a .••ii:. in o h-.. and ,,mi ii, . .mount. of acquirement in each ,',io Id i. i u .. ai .oitain eiiods and in a certain order by ii.ii.a a* i.-.i.thl a i iPiou . 11;. oa, o. ul, and practical.