Address before the American Medical Association, at the anniversary meeting in Cincinnati, May 8, 1850 / by John C. Warren.

  • Warren, John Collins, 1778-1856.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Address before the American Medical Association, at the anniversary meeting in Cincinnati, May 8, 1850 / by John C. Warren. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    has been prolonged, a greater number of branches of knowledge has been introduced, a more punctual attendance has been demanded of the students, and the examinations have been1 made more thorough. In many places, the great importance of preliminary- education has been duly appreciated, and efforts have been made to introduce preparatory examinations on classical learning and mathematical science. The difficulties which naturally present themselves to the compliance with the last requisition have excited much opposition to it, so that many institu- tions have felt themselves called on' to abandon the hope of establishing this part of instruction. They do not perhaps sufficiently consider, that a young man who comes to the study of medicine without a previous training is like a race-horse, who is at once brought on the turf without having been taught how to employ his physical powers to the best advantage, and that much time must be lost in systematizing the knowledge which is poured in without measure and without mercy. They do not realize that the mass of facts stored in his mind are not arranged, and, for want of medical training, never can be arranged, in such a manner as to enable him to use them for pro- fessional purposes. They do not recollect, that the intellectual faculties, like the physical, when not