Remarks on the present state of the medical profession : shewing chiefly the necessity for the division of labour in its practice / by Leonard Stewart.

  • Stewart, Leonard, 1798-1849.
Date:
1826
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Credit: Remarks on the present state of the medical profession : shewing chiefly the necessity for the division of labour in its practice / by Leonard Stewart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    house, and another man gets it and lives in it. But in art, each one must build for himself. Experience, discrimination, presence of mind, fertility of resources—all these are personal qualifications, and cannot be transferred. That practical skill, that exquisite tact, which decides so much in a crisis full of danger and of doubt, is above all law ; and, like equity, is a discre- tionary power, having no established rules, or fixed precepts. Another marked distinction between science and art, must suggest itself to any one, who gives the subject a moment's consideration:—it is this that the former, being in its nature more definite and permanent, forms a fund to which subsequent additions can be continually made ; but the latter belongs to the individual, and fre- quently perishes with its owner. A man who cultivates any science, can take it up where his predecessor had left it; but in art he must begin at the beginning: the one can be increased by aggregation; the other must be generated. All this may be easily illustrated by directing our attention to the great progi-ess made by the mo- derns in chemistry or in astronomy. This is, c2