A physician's counsels to his professional brethren / by a practising physician.

  • Hunt, Ezra Mundy, 1830-1894.
Date:
[1859]
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Credit: A physician's counsels to his professional brethren / by a practising physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in its triumphs, is sometimes too prone to bring religion to its test, rather than consider itself as subject to be tried by its loftier su- perior. We have a right to ask and expect that these be found in beautiful and uncon- flicting correspondence, so far as they deal with subjects within their mutual grasp; but when the human mind in the glow and flush of high reason, forgets its stopping point, and with the analogies and scales of time, at- tempts to try and weigh the materials of faith and eternity, it chases a horizon which will illimitably recede. In a study like that of medicine, pursued as it too often is by those whose minds, by pre- vious discipline, have not been thoroughly pre- pared for logical analysis, there is constant danger of falling into this very error. Of all the practical sciences it is the most varied, in- quisitive, suggestive, and explorative; and en- listing almost every natural science as an ac- cessary in its eager pathway sometimes falls upon erroneous conclusions. Discovery after discovery, as to the laws of existence, have fol-