On the education and conduct of a physician / [Henry Halford].

  • Halford, Henry, 1766-1844
Date:
1834
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Credit: On the education and conduct of a physician / [Henry Halford]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    higher than the age of Justinian for the first systematic digest of law, yet may he find in the Greek and Roman orators the most luminous expositions of complicated details, and the most powerful appeals to the reason of an audience. To that of the churchman, by presenting to him, amongst other attrac¬ tions, a valuable system of ethics, though it be deficient in the great points of general benevolence and charity, and is altogether much inferior to that which we have all the happiness of possessing in the New Testa¬ ment ; nor can he fail to find a perfect intellectual enjoyment, in comparing the songs of the favoured people of God with the beautiful hymns of pagan poetry. But to the physician, whose profession is of all countries and of every age, they are doubly attractive, because he perceives, in the ancient historians, the origin of many of the terms of his art; the earliest mention of