The medical student, or, Aids to the study of medicine : including a glossary of the terms of the science, and of the mode of prescribing, bibliographical notices of medical works, the regulations of different medical colleges of the union, &c. &c / by Robley Dunglison.

  • Dunglison, Robley, 1798-1869.
Date:
1837
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    PRELIMINARY EDUCATION. of Armstrong, how galling must this rejection have been, especially as he was compelled to present him- self, again, before the same tribunal, before he could enjoy the full privileges and immunities of his calling. This he did in the following year, when he was ad- mitted one of the iPcrmissi> or what are called 'Mem- bers' of the College of Physicians. But, although Armstrong had neglected his classi- cal learning, he was, from the commencement of his professional career, a severe student. No one felt more than he,—to employ the language of a recent writer on Medical Education,*—that the moment a practitioner ceases to be a student, he is no longer worthy of the confidence of the public, and that the life of a physician can only be truly useful and honor- able, when it is unremittingly employed in study, in determining the truth of theoretical opinions by obser- vation, and improving the value of practical sugges- tions by the test of experience. It was in this way, that Armstrong was,—as every distinguished man of science must be,—self-made. Whatever may be the amount of abilities, they cannot be developed without a certain degree of application, and although this amount may vary according to the precise capability, no marked developement can occur, in any case, with- out study. It is impossible to adduce the name of a single scientific physician, which has survived his ex- istence, who was not through life a student. Colle- giate honors, as has been properly observed by Mon- taigne, may form the pedestal: it is the man that forms * 'Thoughts on Medical Education, addressed to the Council of the University of London,' by Dr. A. T. Thomson.