Hints respecting the improvement of the literary & scientific education of candidates for the degree of Doctor of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh : humbly submitted to the consideration of the patrons and professors of that institution / by a graduate of King's College, Aberdeen.

Date:
1824
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Credit: Hints respecting the improvement of the literary & scientific education of candidates for the degree of Doctor of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh : humbly submitted to the consideration of the patrons and professors of that institution / by a graduate of King's College, Aberdeen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    another,—and with the changes to which, in the progress of health and disease, these faculties are subject. But how, it may be asked, is this knowledge to be obtained, unless by the study of Logic and of Moral Philosophy? Setting aside altogether the consideration of the beneficial effects which the study of these Sciences is calculated to produce upon the intellectual powers and moral character of those w ho engage in it, a knowledge of the Science of Mind, and of every thing which can influence the perceptive, intellectual and moral powers of man, becomes absolutely necessary to him whose duty it often is to judge of the existence of the derange- ments which so frequently take place in this part of the human constitution, from external injury, from disease, and from the states of fever and madness,— to describe their varieties,—and to conduct their treat- ment. There is, if we may be permitted so to speak, ait Anatomy, a Physiology, and a Pathology, of the mental as well as of the corporeal part of our frame, forming the branch of science usually denominated Metaphysics, the study of which seems to be indispensably necessary to a due knowledge of the Animal Economy. This important branch of science, requires to be studied by medical men in connection with the observation and investigation of the various physical and vital causes which influence the intellectual part of the human con- stitution. It may be hoped, that “the time is come for placing Medicine on a level with the other sciences, and for