Notes of lectures on the theory and practice of medicine : delivered in the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia / by John Eberle.

  • Eberle, John, 1787-1838.
Date:
1840
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Credit: Notes of lectures on the theory and practice of medicine : delivered in the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia / by John Eberle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    PREFACE. This little work is published expressly for the use of the students attending the author's lectures on the Theory and Practice of Medicine. It embraces little more than the main propositions and facts, which form the ground-work of the lectures, in other words—the text upon which he enlarges and comments in extemporary discourse; and which, especially, the student ought to impress upon his memory. The practice of taking notes, though at- tended with some advantages, is neverthless, on the whole, calculated to lessen the benefits to be derived from oral instruction. The train of ihought and reasoning is interrupted; and the mind irregu- larly hurried along the current of the speaker's ob- servations—seizing sometimes upon remarks that are comparatively unimportant, at the expense of others of a more useful and interesting import; and losing in a great measure the general spirit and scope of the speaker's discourse—more especially when the subject is one of general disquisition. These disadvantages, it is believed, will be dimin- ished, if not wholly obviated, by works constructed on the plan of the present one. Being secure of the text, or propositions, the student may yield his mind, without embarrassment, to the explications