Letters on medical consultation, to and from Dr. Prichard, M.D. : with some observations on medical usage, and the inseparability of medical surgery & medicine / by David Davies.

  • Davies, David, 1760-1844.
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[1826]
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Credit: Letters on medical consultation, to and from Dr. Prichard, M.D. : with some observations on medical usage, and the inseparability of medical surgery & medicine / by David Davies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tlie branches of medicine are so intimately con- nected that they cannot be separated ; and in the present day M. le Docteur Leroux, principal Physician of the Ancient Faculty of Medicine in Paris, &c. &c. the friend and colleague of the illustrious and lamented Corvisart, expresses himself to the same effect on this subject.* Hildanus, Vesaliu.s, Fabricius ab Aqnapen- dente, Fallopius, Scnitetus, Nuck, Heister, Jen- ner, and many other eminent men have united the title of Surgeon to that of Physician in order to increase their utility to mankind. The medico-chiriirgical societies established in England, on the Continent, and in America, are strong evidence of the union of medical surgery and medicine. Circumstances frequently occur wherein con- * “ L’art de gii^rir est un ; c’est le tronc que se partage en deux branches principales, la paiKologie et la cUnique. C’est k tort que Ton a distingu^ la m^decine de la chirurgie ; ces deux parties de 1’ art de gu4rir sont indivisibles, comme le sont, dans la peinture, le dessin et I’npplication de la cou- leur. Les dtudes sont le ni6mes, la pratique seule est un peu difKrente. Je ne crains pas de vous redire un axiunie qui, a force d’avoir 4t£ rdp6t^, parait presque trivial: lln'y a point de vrai mMecin qu'il ne sache de la chirurgie; il n'y a point de vrai chirurgien qu'il ne sache de la mMecine. Ainsi, dans le cours de ces Conferences, je ne meservirai, laplupart du temps, que du mot de m^decine pour exprimer ce que I’on nonime I* art de guhir, et que Ton devrait appeler I’ art de trailer; et que du mot de mMecin pour designer celui qui pratique cet art.’’—Cours sur les g^neralites do la Medecinc Pratique, par J. J. Leroux, p. 27.