Volume 1

Observations on the duties and offices of a physician; and on the method of prosecuting enquiries in philosophy / [Anon].

  • Gregory, John, 1724-1773.
Date:
1770
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    Befides the general confideration of the utility and dignity of the fcience of medicine, it may be confidered in two different views. r. In the firft place, as prefenting a very ample field for the exertion of ge¬ nius.—The great extent of the fubjed, and a variety of caufes^ which I fhali afterwards endeavour particularly to ex- • plain, have left it imperfed in many of its parts; and indeed there are fome paths in it hitherto untrod. 2. In the fecond place, medicine pre- fents an equally extenfive field for the exercife of humanity. A phyfician has numberlefs opportunities of giving that relief to diftrefs, which the -wealth of India could not purchafe. This, to a benevolent mind, miift be one of the greateft pleafurcs it can ever hope to enjoy. But befides the good which a phyfician has often in his power to do in confequcnce of {kill in his profeflion, there are many oecafions that call for his affiflance as a B 4 man,