The debt of science to medicine : being the Harveian oration delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London on St. Luke's Day, 1924 / by Archibald E. Garrod.

  • Garrod, Archibald E. (Archibald Edward), Sir, 1857-1936.
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1924
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Credit: The debt of science to medicine : being the Harveian oration delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London on St. Luke's Day, 1924 / by Archibald E. Garrod. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the universities of Europe, the three profession faculties of Divinity, Law, and Medicine, that Natural Science is of quite recent development. F< the student with a scientific bent two paths were open he might either attach himself to the Faculty Medicine, or might approach his chosen studies fc way of mathematics. Even down to the seventeenth century, or late the university course in medicine was almost who! theoretical. The Professor expounded to his pupi the writings of Hippocrates and Galen, together wr those of some of the great Arabians, such as Avicenr and Rhazes. Such were the duties assigned by Linac. to his lecturers at Oxford and Cambridge, and tho of the Regius Professors at those ancient seats learning. Thomas Molyneux (1661-1733), a your graduate of Dublin, where he was afterwards Profess! of Medicine, visited Oxford in 1683, and heard tl. Regius Professor, Dr. Luff, 4 read on the first aphoris of Hippocrates in the Physic School ; where givir an account of the shortness of man’s life since, ar the length of it before the flood, he made up Mr. Burnett’s fancy, not at all altered but in t] word h1 No wonder that Molyneux was not divert*' from his purpose to continue his studies at Leydei where clinical medicine was being taught in a unive sity clinic. Elsewhere clinical knowledge was acquired by atte dance upon the practice of a physician or surgeo a system of apprenticeship which has this to its credit- that out of it has grown the English system of bedsi<jj instruction to small groups of students. The first attempt to start clinical teaching with a university was made in Padua in the late sixteen century, but the first organized clinic was that Leyden, started in or about the year 1630. The study of science for its own sake, apart fro