Ars medici : an essay on the doctor's art and its relation to science / by John H. Clarke.

  • Clarke, John Henry, 1852-1931.
Date:
1884
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Credit: Ars medici : an essay on the doctor's art and its relation to science / by John H. Clarke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Emory University.

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    hams after a four or five years' course of study. Sydeuhams are uot made iu the schools ; they are made by their own honest, unpretentious, self-devoted practice of the art they profess. The true function of the schools is to put the students in the way of doing this; to show them that on them- selves depends whether they succeed or fail ; to encourage them manfully to meet the difficulties that beset their endeavours to render themselves helpful and efficient at the bedside of the sick. A few years of work of this kind will confer no mean degree of proficiency in his art on him who gives himself up to it, and will lay the only foundation for future advance. Perfect mastery in this art of arts a whole lifetime is too short in which to attain. The devotion of a life is not enough to confer this; and nothing short of a life's devotion is demanded for the acquirement of high proficiency. The dilettante has no place among the worthy professors of the Doctor's Art: The track our venturous keel must furrow brooks no self-sparing pilot.