On the education and conduct of a physician1834 - 80 pages |
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acquainted acquire advantage ALBEMARLE STREET aliquid amongst amuse arise assist attach attention BART benevolence botanist carriage cheerfulness churchman Classical COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS conciliant construe cure of diseases delight demeanour distinguished Duke Street duty EDUCATION AND CONDUCT eminent engaged enjoyment enlarge enlightened ESSAYS esteem examples exercise faculties fame feeling fountain gratification honour human idem illustrious intellect JOHN MURRAY judgment knowledge Lambeth lawyer learned less LONDON Lord Grenville manners master Mead ment merit mind moral discipline nature necessary Nunquam object Oxford particular disease passions person Plato poet possess practised PRESIDENT principles PRINTED BY WILLIAM profession propriety pursuit quæ quick perception reason religion remedies Roman ROYAL COLLEGE scholar scire sense sentiment sion Sir George Baker SIR HENRY HALFORD society spirit student's successive symptoms system of education taught tenderness tion Treatment truth universities versate virtues virtuous WILLIAM CLOWES wisdom
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Page 15 - Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners ; that these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo, Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault : the dram of eale Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal.
Page 7 - Wise men have said are wearisome; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior (And what he brings, what needs he elsewhere seek) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys, And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge; As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
Page 10 - We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.
Page 11 - ... various remedies of our art, whether they be supplied by the botanist or the chemist, or come from whatever other source ; and, lastly, with the appropriate application of medicine to particular disease. I forbear to enter more minutely into the order in which lectures should be attended. Every medical school has its own arrangements. But it may not be unnecessary to guard the student against being seduced to pay a disproportionate attention to any one branch of the course. To become exclusively...
Page 12 - The mainspring of his success was that he acted upon the principle laid down by himself — that the cure of disease is the physician's object, and he must not allow anything to divert his eye from that great mark.
Page 19 - ... religion, have gained a firm ascendancy and rule over the passions. Let him be careful to adopt the sentiments and the manners of a gentleman, by preferring such associates as are distinguished by their elevation of mind, their sound principles, and their good manners. The latter have been classed amongst the minor virtues, and are better taught by example than by precept. It is indifferent to me where these acquisitions shall have been made, whether in our own universities or in foreign schools...
Page 10 - ... any parent could speculate in the education of his offspring, or in a choice for their future establishment in the world. No principles would be early worked into the habits. As soon as the most able instructor had completed his laborious course of institution, instead of sending forth his pupil, accomplished in a virtuous discipline, fitted to procure him attention and respect, in his place in society, he would find everything altered; and that he had turned out a poor creature to the contempt...