Volume 1

Professional anecdotes, or ana of medical literature.

Date:
1825
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Credit: Professional anecdotes, or ana of medical literature. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    empirics; (their own records lewdly express it, 44 Qui Medicinam ne primis labiis gustavit,” *) although, by their own shewing, these very per- sons had received an university education, tra- velled abroad to the best medical schools, and were celebrated for their scientific acquirements. RISE OF DR. BROWN AND HIS HYPOTHESIS. Dr. Brown, who was first a teacher of the classics at Edinburgh, and a translator of inau- gural theses into Latin, commenced the study of medicine about the middle of life, by a per- mission to attend the medical schools gratui- tously. He was at first strongly attached to Dr. Cullen and his system; but an altercation ensued, and he felt an equal animosity towards both. A new and opposite system, if so it may be called, was, in consequence, manufactured and publicly propounded in a variety of ways. It had great simplicity of principle, and some plau- sibility of feature; it attracted the curious by its novelty, the indolent by its facility, and every one by the boldness of its speculations. It cir- culated widely, and soon acquired popularity both at home and abroad. Man, according to Dr. Brown, is an organised * Who has not yet given the first kiss to the Lady Medicine.