The touchstone of medical reform : in three letters, addressed to Sir Robert Harry Inglis, bart., M.P. / by Joseph Henry Green.

Date:
1841
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Credit: The touchstone of medical reform : in three letters, addressed to Sir Robert Harry Inglis, bart., M.P. / by Joseph Henry Green. 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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    So best, and so only by the institution and protec- tion of this and similar great seminaries of learning, in which is cultivated science anterior to the sciences, as the sciences to the especial professions, so only by the sense of a common derivation, by the fraternizing habits of a common training, will the members of all the liberal professions, thus acknowledging a com- mon birth-place, tend once more to a re-union as a national learned class, every member and off-set of which will be enabled and disposed to regard the practitioner of another profession in the same district as a brother—as a co-operator in a different direc- tion to the same end, whose authority and influence, whenever rightly exerted, he is bound by duty, and prepared by impulse, to support and render effectual. So best may we prevent the effects and consequences of a contrary plan ; that of an extensive, active, mul- tiplying profession, detached from universal science, and abandoned to an ever-increasing tendency to em- piricism and empirical novelties, — detached from all ancient institutions, from all the hereditary loves, loyalties, and reverences that have been the precious birthright of an English gentleman; — professions divided from each other, having no common bond, and in separation from the nation and the na- tional church, — the latter taken largely as the uni- versal organ for educing, harmonizing, and apply- ing all the elements of moral cultivation and progres- sion, of which religion prescribes the aim and sanc- tifies the use.