On the absolute necessity of encouraging instead of preventing or embarrassing the study of anatomy : with a plan to prevent violating the dormitories of the defunct. Addressed to the legislature of Great Britain / By William Rowley, M.D.

  • Rowley, William, 1742-1806.
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[1795]
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Credit: On the absolute necessity of encouraging instead of preventing or embarrassing the study of anatomy : with a plan to prevent violating the dormitories of the defunct. Addressed to the legislature of Great Britain / By William Rowley, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ib ] praftifiilg iHe art without undergoing M examh hation. The Legiilature has provided penal laws apainfl: i^rnorance in the medical profeffion; will it be confiftent with witdom and humanity to pro- tent the fludent from becoming learned, and then punifh him for involuntary ignorance ? Every mode, which can obltruOd anatomical ftudy, mutl induce the groffeft ignorance ; every invention, ' which can excite an ardor in ftudents to become excellent anatomitls, wall be the only means of producing fldlful furgeons; tlie abfence of which lately in our armies^ though it be a delicate fub- jc6l to mention, has been owing to the want of dead human bodies to diffech, and for performing • the various operations of furgety, previous to praclice on the living fubjedl. Whoever does not comprehend the exacf courfe of the veflels, nerves,^ the dircdlions of mufclilar fibres, and, in fhort, anatomy., and who has not praclited on dead fub- )cds, fb as to well comprehend the refiftance of ♦commended. ^ It has always been confidered the duty of a phy-. fician, to adl on clear principles and with energy, or not aft, and be always more folicitous to attack a dileafe by efficacious re¬ medies, than to pleafe the patient’s tafle at the hazard of life, or the injury of the conftitution. The ordering trifling faline and fweetened draughts, when disorders demand the moft decided and powerful pradtice, is a difgrace to the art; fed ef modus in rchusd'* * ^heri is certainly a great differe?ice in the conjlltutions of dlf ferent patients^ fome abound ^ith fenim, others vjith a fuperahun^ dance of red' particles in the bloody <which form the pallid a^d florid ; the fat fuperabound with oily the lean not, Will any confined Jyfier^ he adequate to this diver Jit'}/ ? z parti