A statement explaining the course of instruction adopted at the medical school in Hatton Garden : and comprising some cursory hints to medical students on the employment of their time / by William Greville Jones.

  • Jones, William Greville.
Date:
1828
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Credit: A statement explaining the course of instruction adopted at the medical school in Hatton Garden : and comprising some cursory hints to medical students on the employment of their time / by William Greville Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    •HP the public health would be in a, sorry, pljght. But the truth is, that.^o, the explication of physiology only a small part of eaph of the ;fjbQve-mentioned sciences has any relation;:- yOf botany jio more is available than, what is .called vegetable physiology. Grant two axioms very easy of comprehension in optics mid acoustics, and you grant all that is ne- Cessary to explain the phenomena of sight and hear- ing. Even the value of comparative anatomy is 1 considerably over-rated. To this science we owe, Jndeed, the discovery of almost all that is valuable •in physiological science. Hunter borrowed hence the light which he shed upon physiology generally, and which has made its influence felt even in the remotest branches of our art, , But it is not your business to attempt myention until your mind is 'fraught with established Itnowledge ; and if when 4lii^ is accQmplislied. you are inspired with an ar- Jdour to ad,d: lenjethjng. to^the. stock of himian. kn^ow- ledge it is well; but do not attempt to learn any fc)!'its sake only (as girls learn French and music, that their mothei*s may call them accomplished) ;; •|).l:it:. enter upon the study of collateral science to Jj^^^k out. for' facts that, may bear upon the phy- siology of man. Thrpw .put of your minds all the extrajiepus; ma^ttei' tha.t Surrounds the precious in- jformatioii; ypu . mi^y: thus cull, and : despise. every ilhing that does not tend to the solution of the great problem to which your life is to be devoted, namely, the relief of injury and disease. No information .need be despised, but it should never wean us from ,<;j0ur particular profession. HsY?- CUNNRLL AND ■sHBillMAN, rRiritEBS, SAHSBUBV SQBABK.