An introductory lecture addressed to the students of the Westminster Hospital at the commencement of the session 1871-72 : the relation existing between medicine and the other arts and sciences / by W.R. Basham.

  • Basham, W. R. (William Richard), 1804-1877.
Date:
1871
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Credit: An introductory lecture addressed to the students of the Westminster Hospital at the commencement of the session 1871-72 : the relation existing between medicine and the other arts and sciences / by W.R. Basham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Also, of the laws concerning the development and genera¬ tion of electric, galvanic, and magnetic force, and the co¬ relation of these with each other. Optics, as a science, must receive some attention, for this treats of vision as well as the nature and properties of light, the change it undergoes in its qualities or direction in passing through bodies of different shapes and densities. The chemical agency and the heating force of different portions of a ray of light (actino-chemistry) must also receive a share of attention. The subject of spectrum analysis has become so important a part of chemical science that it is now an essential element of teaching. These several sciences teach a knowledge of the laws of the material world. They examine and analyse the funda¬ mental powers and properties of matter, investigate the forces disturbing the inertia of matter, equally with those which maintain it in equilibrium. They deal with matter as a ponderable agent, as solid, fluid, or aeriform—or imponder¬ able, as in the phenomena of heat, electricity, light, or sound. The science or Imowleclge of organized structures.—This includes human and comparative Anatomy and Physiology and Botany, or vegetable anatomy and physiology, including a knowledge of the structure, functions, uses, and geographical distribution of plants and animals. A knowledge of the structure of organized beings, animal and vegetable, thus forms a distinct branch of natural science. It is an extensive field of study; it comprehends a minute and accurate knowledge of the structural elements of living beings, and the object of this accurate knowledge of struc-