Syllabus of the course of lectures on medical logic, delivered in the University of Aberdeen / by Francis Ogden.

  • Ogston, Francis, 1803-1887.
Date:
1860
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    SYLLABUS OF LECTURES. LECTURE I. ^V Deficiencies observable in the Medical Sciences,— Partly traceahle to the circumstances of their origin, and the earlier stages through vjhich they have passed.—Close connection of Medicine, at successive periods, with the ancient supersti¬ tions, the crude “ philosophies” of the day, and the first rude forms of the Natural and Physical Sciences, but partially ; emancipated from their alliance with and dependance on 1 Metaph3’-sics. In part to the subject-matters of the Sciences themselves. The leading aim of medicine difficultly grasped at by us. Abstract character of all our notions of “ health” and “disease.” Obscurity of the connection betwixt means and ends in medicine. “ The principle of life” still a purelj- speculative one,—In part, also, to the place which the Medi¬ cal are found to occupy amongst the other Sciences. The extent of the field over which the medical philosopher has to range, and the diversified character and abstruse nature of many of the enquiries with which he has to grapple. The intermediate place of Biology betwixt the abstract and the concrete Sciences, favourable alike to the extremes of “ Dogmatism” on the one side, and “ Empericism” on the other, and permitting of its being viewed from either its “ Psychical” or its “ Somatic side.” Problems hence originat¬ ing in the Medical Sciences, and consequent special need in these of those correct modes of generalising facts and esti¬ mating evidence, successfully adopted in other departments of study.