Advice to the physician, the surgeon, and the apothecary, and to their patients : after the manner of Dean Swift : with notes practical and illustrative, founded on long observation that may be beneficial to them all, and favorable to health and long life / by a physician.

Date:
1821
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Credit: Advice to the physician, the surgeon, and the apothecary, and to their patients : after the manner of Dean Swift : with notes practical and illustrative, founded on long observation that may be beneficial to them all, and favorable to health and long life / by a physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    - r fessors in either of those cities, as in seven years’ residence either in Oxford or Cambridge (1). At the outset of yonr practice, yon will contrive to pnblisli a medical Essay on some popular subject: such as the (1) W e are here far from intending to pass any indiscriminate censure upon these last mentioned learned bodies, hut the medical science iscertainly less their object and point of attention, than other subjects. Upon the original establishmeiit, a great many years ago, of the college at Edinburgh, it was observed, to a very learned^man of that time, how hard it was that the scotch professors, unlike those in the english universities, were to have no salaries:—The sage answer was; “ So far, “ from thinking that circumstance a subject “ of complaint, I congratulate them upon it; “ for they will then have only their merit to “ depend on.” And the consequence has been, for five medical students of physic in Oxford or Cambridge, there are a hundred in Edinburgh and London.