Observations on the office of a faithful teacher, and on the duty of an attentive student of medicine : delivered as an introductory lecture to the institutions of medicine in the University of Edinburgh, on the 29th of October 1823 / by Andrew Duncan.

  • Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828.
Date:
1823
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    PREFACE. At the desire of some of those who have heard my Observations on the Duty of an attentive Student of Medicine, dehvered as a Pubhc Lecture, and who wished to be able to read them in private, I have been induced to put them into the hands of the Pubhshers. It is hardly necessary for me to observe, that, at my advanced period of life, I can have no view of obtaining from this Publication either the slightest pecuniary emolument or additional reputa- tion. But if it shall be productive of any benefit, either to future Teachers, or to fu- ture Students of Medicine, it will add some- thing to my happiness in the evening of life. I shall, at least, derive from it, some