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Show Relative to morbid anatomy. Relative to morbid anatomy. always in haste, and often by chance or stealth; and that mankind should absolutely not suffer an art, which concerns all alike, to acquire a among us; and, as has lately happened in chemistry, we should again outstrip those, by whom our predecessors had been undertaken. When any pro- There is no reason however why we should 230 juster title to their confidence? 231 cess is to be repeated for profit, full time and not maintain our present precedence. opportunity never fail to be allowed for ascertaining its principles. rl'he enquirer would indeed be disgraced or ruined, if he did not only necessary that some individual or union of take full time. What a contrast in regard It is individuals, extending their views of society still more largely, should take up the cause of that science, than which none bears more di- I to those processes, where life itself is at stake? I know and respect the feelings that have stood in the way. But where real huma- i I! nity has fair play, it will suppress these feelings. which the Duke of Bedford and Sir Joseph Banks have exerted in behalf of agriculture and natural history. An institution for the minute At the dawn of science upon the states of examination of dead bodies and for inventing Italy, the anatomist, in common with the artist, superior methods of examination might be so conducted in the metropolis as possibly to double the number of facts, useful to medicine, in .i: v. H. I I rectly upon their own species, with the spirit, l J, Iv w l my ..(. gyx' isms-L it i l9 appears to have enjoyed, as he deserved, the favour of the great. The rulers of modern France have contrived, amid all their excesses, to promote physiological and pathological science beyond all past example. Its cultivators are going on at so quick, yet so sure, a pace, that if they but appropriate a few British and American ideas, the very thing must happen in medicine which happened in chemistry, Let me add that no well-appointed school of medicine ought to be without a separate teacher of morbid anatomy. In ordinary anatomical lectures, deviations of structure are shewn, and Emulation would likewise be rekindled a teacher of medicaljurisprudence must intro-duce more of the subject. But morbid anatomy surely requires to be taken up in its own order and to be unfolded to its natural dimensions. Itrequires this the more, as we possess no work but what is so scanty, so jejune and so stifl‘ that it hides from the learner-that which most requires to be taught---the free among Play when Lavoisier and his associates, availing themselves of the ideas of Black and Priestly, went more methodically to work. The event would be highly desirable, because all improve- ments in medicine are an universal and unmixed good. twenty years. |