Medicine, old and new : an introductory address delivered on the occasion of the opening of the winter session 1899-1900 at St. George's Hospital Medical School on Oct. 2nd, 1899 / by W. Howship Dickinson.

  • Dickinson, W. Howship (William Howship), 1832-1913.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Medicine, old and new : an introductory address delivered on the occasion of the opening of the winter session 1899-1900 at St. George's Hospital Medical School on Oct. 2nd, 1899 / by W. Howship Dickinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    century, I have shown how much has been done and how much un- done ; how we have learned to ab- stain from mischievous interference, how we have found in external nature remedial agencies which our predecessors very imperfectly dis- cerned, and to how great an extent we have superseded empiricism by science. The progress of the age has shed its light upon medicine, which, in addition to being an art, has become a science. As an art it is no longer of worse than doubtful utility. With- out claiming that even yet it is always productive of good, since we must allow for human imperfection, it has ceased to be actively mischie- vous and become in certain definite particulars of prevention and cure