A descriptive catalogue of wet preparations, casts, drawings, models, books, etc., contained in the Museum of the Birmingham and Midland Counties Lying-in Hospital and Dispensary for the Diseases of Women and Children / arranged and edited in compliance with the wishes of the Board and medical officers by John G. Connor.

  • Birmingham and Midland Counties Lying-in Hospital and Dispensary for the Diseases of Women and Children. Museum.
Date:
1847
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Credit: A descriptive catalogue of wet preparations, casts, drawings, models, books, etc., contained in the Museum of the Birmingham and Midland Counties Lying-in Hospital and Dispensary for the Diseases of Women and Children / arranged and edited in compliance with the wishes of the Board and medical officers by John G. Connor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    logue; for, though it is earnestly trusted it may prove useful to the Stu- dent, hy directing his attention to the prominent features of the Speci- mens, still, there is no douht more might have heen said; and what was said less liable to criticism. But, in the words of Dr. Hodgkin— I will take on myself to affirm, that those only can be competent to ap- portion the censure which may be due, who have themselves experi- enced the labours of a similar task. The illustrious Harvey has been instanced as a diligent and successful labourer in the fields of science; let us, as we walk along with him seeking and searching on earth for the gems of knowledge, learn of him also to use the great privilege of man to look upwards, and thus ascend by creation's gol- den steps to Him, in whom we live, and move, and have our being; then,indeed, our knowledge will lead to power, and wealth,and peace; it will be a covenant between the wise man and his God, like that wondrous bow in the cloud, which, though its base is on earth, the arch is lost in heaven. Tlie Father of Medicine acknowledged the cure was of God. Harvey, that even in the little edifice of a chicken, and in all its actions., the finger of God, or the God of nature revealed himself; therefore, it is not beneath the modern Physician—he who calls himself a Christian, to acknowledge the omnipotent God and most high Creator to be everywhere present, in the structure of all creatures living, and to point himself out by his works, whose instruments the cock and hen are in the generation of the chicken; for it is most apparent, that in the generation of the chicken out of the egg, that all things are set up and formed with a most singidar Providence, Divine wisdom, and an admirable and incomprehen- sible artifice.