Three dissertations on Boylston prize questions for the years 1806 and 1807 / By George Cheyne Shattuck, M.D. Being the dissertations to which the Boylston prize medals were adjudged. To which is prefixed the public account of their adjudication.

  • Shattuck, George Cheyne, 1783-1854.
Date:
1808
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Credit: Three dissertations on Boylston prize questions for the years 1806 and 1807 / By George Cheyne Shattuck, M.D. Being the dissertations to which the Boylston prize medals were adjudged. To which is prefixed the public account of their adjudication. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    PREFACE. A physician, in submitting his labours to public examination, should feel the same unconcern for the consequence to his reputation, as the chemist feels, for the result of the analysis, on putting his ma- terials into the crucible. Both hold departments within the province of natural philosophy, and truth., as it relates to discovery, to its establishment after discovery, or to the correction of pre-existing error, should alike be the object of both. A writer in appearing before the bar of the public should therefore reap a triple advantage from his ex- posure, in the communication of truth, in provoking a righteous criticism for the mortification of his sins of ignorance, and in awakening the attention of the pub- lic to desiderata, the solution of which involves prin- ciples, which are essential to a lucid and satisfactory discussion of his subject. Respecting the first object, the communication of truth, it is presumed, that the simple collection and systematic arrangement of what has been written upon these interesting subjects would not be alto- gether inutile, particularly to the younger members of the facultv.