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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    beyond this elementary knowledge, and arrive at excellence in any particular department of science, he must resolve to leave some, at least, of his early acquirements, less attended to than others. We see that in schools, and those other sources of instruction, whence knowledge is supposed to flow, instead of a mingled stream, it is poured from divided channels. Professors are appointed, not to deal out a medley of learning, but to analyze the varied mass of information, and distribute it in parts. And although, perhaps, there have not been wanting instances, where men of great mental powers have been as well fitted for one chair in a medical college, as for another; yet, as a general rule, there would be no error in looking for a more accurate acquaintance with anatomy in the person whose business it was to teach it, than in the professor of chemistry. We should not be unreasonable if, when desirous of in¬ formation concerning the relation in which the profession stands to the laws of our country, we applied to a lecturer on medical jurisprudence; and not to a teacher of botany.