Modern surgery, its progress and tendencies : being the introductory address delivered at University College at the opening of session 1873-74 / by John Eric Erichsen.

  • John Eric Erichsen
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1873
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Credit: Modern surgery, its progress and tendencies : being the introductory address delivered at University College at the opening of session 1873-74 / by John Eric Erichsen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    qualities are easily attainable in early professional life; they can never be acquired later. It is the simple physi- cal education of the eye and the hand that is required : like all physical exercises, it is of ready attainment in youth. But let me urge upon you most earnestly not to neglect the study of those sciences which I have shown you sublie even so practical a subject as surgery, and which are pro- bably of greater importance still in their connexidn with other departments of the profession. But unless you intend to become philosophers, do not study those sciences: in- teresting and, indeed, captivating as most of them are, for their own sakes, use them only so far as they are sub- servient to the great object of the studies of at least ninety- nine out of every hundred of you,-—that of preparing you to become practitioners. And bear this in mind, that the foremost men in our profession have ever been, and still are, those who are the greatest practitioners of its art, and that there is no calling more interesting in its practice, and more independent and useful in its exercise, than that of medicine in its largest and highest sense. MINTED BY H. K. LEWIS, 136 GOWER STREET, LONDON, W.C.
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