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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    cases, (which we should call a knowledge of the laws of pathology,) and long practice, beget a habit of nicely weighing contingencies, and reckoning the probable course of future events : and it is this kind of foresight that constitutes the superiority of an educated man over an igno¬ rant novice. We see the propriety of a partial interference with the order of nature, well illus¬ trated by referring to the art of agriculture,, where the preparation of the soil, and other cares of husbandry, are of use to a certain ex¬ tent ; but next follow the mysteries of vegetation, which are beyond all scrutiny, and but little submitted to the controul of human agency. How wide then is the difference between trust¬ ing to nature in matters where we have no power; and the total neglect of art! But in exact proportion to our esteem for cnadour and liberality, is our abhorrence of selfishness and frauds These are not necessary 4 < * An amusing sketch of a famous quack in the reign of queen Anne., is given in se Swift’s Journal to Stella ” f<r Henley would fain engage me to go with Steele, Rowe, &c. to an invitation at Sir William Read’s. Surely you have heard of him. He has been a mountebank, and is the queen’s