On the duties of physicians, resulting from their profession / by Thomas Gisborne.

Date:
1847
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Credit: On the duties of physicians, resulting from their profession / by Thomas Gisborne. 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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    which even singly they present, and conceive that he is making a rapid progress in Medicine. Here- after, when he shall be grounded and established in his profession, a portion of his leisure will be usefully and laudably devoted to a deeper study of the various works of God, of the laws to which they are subject, and of the properties with which they are endued. The knowledge of the Latin and Greek lan- guages, with which the Medical Student may be supposed to have been rendered familiar by a classical education, ought to be preserved at least, if not improved, during his pursuit of professional attainments. An acquaintance with both those tongues is requisite for understanding the ancient writers on the art of Medicine: and valuable treatises on that science are still composed in Latin by foreigners. At Edinburgh, too, and in some other places, probationary or inaugural disserta- tions in Latin are required from every candidate for the degree of Doctor of Physic. An intimacy with the French* language is very useful to the Phyyician, not merely for the reasons common to men of all professions who are placed in the upper ranks of society, but likewise that he may peruse with facility the valuable tracts on medical subjects occasionally published in that tongue. [• To which may now be added the Qerman language.]