The naval surgeon : comprising the entire duties of professional men at sea ; to which are subjoined, a system of naval surgery, and a compendious pharmacopoeia / by William Turnbull.

  • Turnbull, William, active 1779-1806.
Date:
1806
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    mencement of the Surgeon’s career at an aca- demical seat o{’learning, it will be proper to con- sider next, whether his after progress should pro- ceed in the usual routine, or be conducted with a view to the cultivation of Naval Medicine and Surgery alone. It is a fact sufficiently noto- rious, that even in private practice, the circum- scribing of the attention to particular walks of the profession alone, has been attended with the most beneficial effect to society, and produced, on the. part of those exercising them, a discri- mination in judging, and a superiority in treat- ment, which are not to be acquired when the attention is diverted to a great variety of objects, or to an extended field,of different practice. This fact, then, so well .ascertained in the private exercise of the profession, we would wish to apply particularly to the preparation ofi! Naval Surgeons, before their entrance into the service. Would it not, therefore, after a stu- dent has acquired some general knowledge of the extent of the service, be proper to limit his views in the finishing part of his studies, to the Nava . Department alone; and, instead of his wasting his time in attending on the common Medical and Surgical Lectures, that an institution shoulc be formed, by the appointment of Government for completing the instruction of all such whos- practic