An address to medical and surgical pupils, on the studies and duties of their profession; to which is appended, a case of caesarean operation / by James Barlow.

  • Barlow, James.
Date:
1839
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Credit: An address to medical and surgical pupils, on the studies and duties of their profession; to which is appended, a case of caesarean operation / by James Barlow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    qualified in that department of learned lore, the translation of prescriptions, without a tolerable knowledge of which they dare never venture into the presence of the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries. Parents, it is assumed, who make a son a Physician or a Surgeon, (for throughout this essay I have used the terms in a synonymous sense) are actuated by a desire to see him possess that rank in the profession, which should ever he obtained, as its just reward, by intellectual merit; hut parents must sometimes expect to have their wishes thwarted, if they make a Physician of him, to whom nature has given the love of revelling in gaiety and pleasure; and, unfortunately, it is not always in the power of the parent to measure the human mind, whether nature has or has not been lavish in her gifts : consequently the best way of proceeding will he to educate the youth as efficiently, and as early as his bodily powers will admit, and his parents’ means will allow. A few plain directions, as a guide, will often enable a traveller steadily to pursue his onward course, and to reach his destination, without wandering materially from his proper path; so with regard to parents, who purpose to bring up their sons to the most arduous, and the most useful, if not the most delightful of all professions, that of Medi¬ cine, a few simple hints may enable them the better to accomplish their object, and to avoid