On mental training and relaxation in the study of medicine.

  • Brown, John.
Date:
[1851]
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Credit: On mental training and relaxation in the study of medicine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MENTAL TRAINING AND RELAXATION IN THE STUDY OF MEDICINE. Arnauld’s Port-Royal Logic. Translated by T. S. Baynes. Thomson’s Outlines of the Necessary Laws of Thought. Descartes on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth in the Sciences. Coleridge’s Essay on Method. Whately’s Logic and Rhetoric. New and cheap edition. Mill’s Logic. New and cheap edition. Dugald Stewart’s Outlines. Sir John Herschel’s Preliminary Dissertation. Quarterly Review, vol. lxviii.—Article upon Whewell’s Philosophy of Inductive Sciences. “ Pray, Mr Opie, may I ask what you mix your colours with ?” said a brisk dilettante student to the great painter. “ With Brains, Sir,” was the gruff reply—and the right one. It did not give much of what we call information; it did not expound the principles and rules of the art; but, if the inquirer had the commodity referred to, it would awaken him—it would set him a-going, a-thinking, and a-painting to good purpose. If he had not, as was likely enough, the less he had to do with colours and their mixture the better. Many other artists, when asked such a question, would have either set about detailing the mechanical composition of such and such colours, in such and such proportions, rubbed up so and so; or per- haps they would (and so much the better, but not the best) have shewn him how they laid them on; but even this would leave him at the critical point. Opie preferred going to the quick, and the heart of the matter—“ Brains, Sir.” Sir Joshua Reynolds was taken by a friend to see a picture. He was anxious to admire it, and he looked it over with a keen and careful eye. “ Capital composition—correct drawing—the