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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    a Physician will be more subject to a diversified sphere of literary attainment. At this stage of my inquiry the science of Phrenology presents itself, and if a knowledge of its merits will enable a parent to foresee his son’s intellectual capacity, and enable him to direct his attention to the most proper source for the attainment of the requisite literary knowledge, and his future progress in life; it must be admitted, that Phrenology is one of the most valuable discoveries ever made by the persevering sagacity of human genius; and that it is well calculated for this highly-important purpose of parental attention in every walk of society connected with education, by unfolding the faculties and treasures of the human mind, as evinced by the works of Dr. Combe and Caldwell, Notwithstanding what may or may not be advanced against a classical education, a practice has prevailed of making it so general, as to include boys, of whom it is known by their parents beforehand, that they are to engage in the ordinary pursuits of trade and commerce; in a case of this nature, the youth might employ his time better in acquiring manual dexterity and mathematical knowledge, than in puzzling himself with acquiring a dead language. If the individual select commerce or mechanics as his occupation for life, the time devoted to the dead languages is evidently misapplied.