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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    I. [duties of the medical student.] The primary object ever to be held in view by the youth destined for4he practice of Physic, is to render himself capable of fulfilling the duties of his profession by the attainment of the know- ledge necessary for that purpose. The first step to be taken is the choice of the place where his medical education is to be carried on. This is a point which frequently is settled by the parents and relations of the young man ; without much attention being paid to his opinion in a matter of which he cannot be supposed a very competent judge. In many cases, however, his wishes will have considerable weight. And whatever weight thev may possess he is bound to throw into that scale, the preponderance of which he deems most likely to contribute to his improvement. Let him not prefer London to Edinburgh, or Leyden. to Gottingen, merely because he thinks the one place more fashionable than the other; or merely that he may continue to enjoy the society of some friend, with whom he has contracted an intimacy at school or at college. Let him sacrifice inferior views and personal gratifications to the prospect of greater proficiency in medical science. It is obvious, that no effectual insight into a science so complicated, and in many respects so