Too hasty generalization a hindrance to the progress of medicine as a science : an introductory address delivered before the North London Medical Society, at the commencement of the session 1855-6 / by Charles J. Hare.

  • Hare, Charles John.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Too hasty generalization a hindrance to the progress of medicine as a science : an introductory address delivered before the North London Medical Society, at the commencement of the session 1855-6 / by Charles J. Hare. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    means hidden qualities may be brought to light, and many excellencies disclosed which would never otherwise be discovered: intercourse with those engaged in the same pursuits, whose objects are alike, and whose training and education have been similar, cannot but tend to maintain active in us that interest which might otherwise flag, and to keep alive that spirit of investigation which ought always to animate us. Those, indeed, who most regularly and zealously attend the meetings of such societies, are they who can most truly appreciate the benefits they ofi'er, and bear witness to the amount of information and advantage to be derived from them. In a profession so practical as that of medicine, and which depends so much on observa- tion, there is no one so learned that he may cease learning—none so inexperienced that he may not have more or less the power of adding to our stock of knowledge; and if he have the power, then the duty of doing so necessarily follows. Lord Bacon says: I hold every man a debtor to his profession, from which, as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they, of duty, to endeavour themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto. But there are many men stored with information, men of thought and experience, men ready against any emergency they may have to encounter, and who yet—either from their having but little leisure or from their dis-