An address to the graduates of the Medical Department of the St. Louis University : delivered March 1, 1853 / by M.M. Pallen.

  • Pallen, M. M. (Moses Montrose), 1810-1876.
Date:
1853
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    siantiv disturbing the facta we observe, and the consequent want of uniformity in the sequence of events, constitute* the great difficulty of just conclusions in medical science, [fthesami i, in all pen exhibited the , and the remedies applied to the same diseat b, in differenl persons, exhibited the sann aedieine might duced to an indi c ive science. Bui the ever varying influ- ence of peculiar < onditi li\ ing principle, and the operation of the mental faculties and moral em difficult to be estimates and controlled, thai our too often uncertain,and our inferences necessarily based on mere probabilities. We have nol merely to deal with what rial, but we have also to do with the feelings and emotions of the soul. Hope, joy. anger, revenge, ev< ry passion and emotion of our n many subtle, antagonistic, and oftimes purposely hidden agencies, which may thwart the action of the best directed ren .norantof their effects in health, as well ^ Vet. how guard acainst or control their consequences, or turn them To but one other eau i rtainty in medi d of dif- ficulty in ii allude. It i-• innot con- trol the conditions of the phi certain of the physical - inanimate substances, we can oft< at will thi s, and nrri\ speedy and po but, in the Bring and i<m, We nm-t take ad them, and endei ;i..n. rea- son, judgment, and comparison, to trace the : fits. Now, in medicine, i | of the inward di niflu- ences already mentioned, to com] cumulate ient lor a just and e lusion, is often the resu' of toil and application. Our experiments ; i her laboratory of diseases, and lo Jishment i ■ principle. Hence, from 1. • the origin of bo many crude theori much or more time to disprove them as they di. The i,-llr,hr l,,li!' i applicable to the medical. I ,l' ° in our | haP8 mo*( i than in any olher. But the difficulty of il« lie, and thus the numer- ical method, with all its admitted difficult* inferred undeniable i >us arran ',,!':'' :,i- M8»r3 • but, Wl M-operh tabe .-.led. *i go far to give to met .Mlltv. ;' ,l' ,l1' a*, we <mu reasonably hope that our science will steadilj and surely advatx , towards even ahigh degree oi perfection. In view, therefore, of the vast and complex nature of medicine, and oi ''' difficultle ter natural