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Show £236. Pyrcticus. Pyretz'cus. l .w.< ifiiprZT-‘E'T .g«;.- challenged rival to laugh to scorn the arrogated superiority of British modern medical practice, but also reasons for an impartial man to pause upon the claim. " In the late war," says Dr. Jackson, "hospital expence occupies a ccnxsplcuous column in the statements if public ex- penditure. Hospital mortality accounts principally for the diminution of the army. In these two points, the late war is held to be unexampled" (med. department (ft/16 army, 1893, p. 159).---What is the death-list of the pleurrsy , il:..:. iséiuildeiL. I ‘ ‘ ' , «a I m. _, e wees .937 on It might be plausibly, perhaps convincingly, argued that the tens of thousands of sufferers from the pestilential fevers of our times were almost all the worse for the lessons, which their medical attendants had received in our schools of medical practice. That they received many of last spring among the military and in. our naval stations from Yarmouth to Plymouth r mischievous impressions will be thought probable-But per/raps #2636 were compensated-I dare not affirm it, when I perceive how long we must search without finding a single hint in the professors, which can be shewn, by any consent of good authorities, to have been How do these facts bear upon the ,fbregoing useful. 70f two equal individuals, ifI might proposal ?--ln this way. The orfice of teacher, whether assumed or conferred, can never com- pensate for the living lessons of experience. suppose one, after preparatory studies and hospital-visiting, to hear his professor of the practice diligently; the other to be familiar with the series of original observers; I have no A common-place professor follows, a professor of any ingenuity makes, a sect. Now in medicine also, the different sects proscribe oneanother. hesitation which I should prefer as my own at- lrown alone was frantic enough openly to fly in dical observers may have been, medical reason- But the ten- ers have always been a great deal worse. Had I to fit up a hall for practical lectures in the face of all past observation. dencyis universally the same. That is effected indirectly, which is not directly avowed. T0 the herd that follows every master, just observations and salutary practices, delivered in a lanv garage different from his, are lost. They are obscured to all who have not an uncommon spirit or uncommon opportunities of enquiry. It tendant in malignant fever. However bad me- medicine, opposite the chair I would place a. group of the faithful observers of our' nature: in conflict with sickness, fresh in their ever- green honors; and Sydenham in the midst-1‘ would also introduce a group of those medical pedagogues, the most vain-glorious of mortals, who have abused their professional authority to dazzle the boys around them, and whose vanity |