On the education and conduct of a physician / by Sir Henry Halford, bart.

Date:
1834
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Credit: On the education and conduct of a physician / by Sir Henry Halford, bart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    which they can fairly call their own; for, he who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and a judgment, equal or superior, Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself. Milton. But if the study of the classics be directed with judgment, it will be found that they exhibit the best models of order and of taste. In them may be traced the origin, progress, and decline of knowledge; they contain the history and display the picture of a world gone by, which has left speci- mens of the cultivation of the arts, and of the efforts of human intellect, which no sub^ sequent age has equalled, much less sur- passed. Classical knowledge, therefore, will be applicable on ten thousand occasions to illustrate and adorn science. It is interesting to each of the learned professions : to that of the lawyer, who, though he look no