On the growth of the recruit and young soldier : with a view to a judicious selection of "growing lads" for the army, and a regulated system of training for recruits / by William Aitken.

Date:
1862
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Credit: On the growth of the recruit and young soldier : with a view to a judicious selection of "growing lads" for the army, and a regulated system of training for recruits / by William Aitken. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    measures which, you may devise for the preven- tion of disease. You must reason for your- selves on many things ; and to do so success- fully, you must frame a guide and adopt principles which will lead you to a sound and independent judgment. The aim of such a guide is to extend to your investigations the same methods of ohservation and reasoning which are found to have been most efficient and successful in other departments of knowledge, not less liable to speculative doctrines than medicine, namely, astronomy, optics, chemistry, politics, and mechanics. It will be my duty to point out as we advance, the characters which distinguish sound from unsound methods of observation ; as well as to indicate the proper means and instruments of inquiry for the subjects which will come under our special notice. It is impossible to define generally the cha- racters of a sound method of inquiry in our science more clearly than has been done by Sir Gr. C. Lewis* in a science which has many characteristics in common with that of medicine, * On the Methods of Observation and Reasoning in I'olitics. By Sir G. C. Lewis. London, 1852.