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

  • Stewart, Leonard, 1797 or 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 ... / [Leonard Stewart]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    modes of life. His character requires that he estimate the happiness and misery of every con¬ dition ; observe the power of the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind, as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the despondence of decrepitude.” ‘‘He must divest himself of the prejudices of his age or country; he must disregard present laws and opinions, and rise to general and transcendental truths, which will always be the same.” Ci His labour is not yet at an end; he must know many languages and many sciences.” 6i Irnlac now felt the enthusiastic fit, and was proceeding to aggrandize his profession, when the prince cried out, c Enough ! thou hast convinced me that no human being can ever be a poet/” Being quite of this prince's way of thinking, we shall second his remark, (though sensible of the anticlimax,) by stating it to be our opinion, that no one should ever continue to be a general practitioner, in the extended sense of the term, unless he could become, (as Mrs. Malaprop says,) u like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once.”