 | Sir John Forbes, Alexander Tweedie, John Conolly - 1832 - 858 pages
...Medical societies — Schools of medicine — Suggestions for the improvement of medical science. As the historian of medicine approaches nearer to his own...materials frequently rather retards than promotes its progress. In other sciences, although truth is not to be attained without a certain degree of laborious... | |
 | John Bostock - 1835 - 284 pages
...Medical societies—Schools of medicine — Suggestions for the improvement of medical science. As the historian of medicine approaches nearer to his own...materials frequently rather retards than promotes its progress. In other sciences, although truth is not to be attained without a certain degree of laborious... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1843 - 552 pages
...quart." This enables us to account for an observation of Dr. Bostock, in his "History of Medicine :" "Our actual information does not increase, in any degree, in proportion to our experience." We must not, also, forget that diseases differ, — according to constitution, modes of life, habits... | |
 | Sir John Forbes, Alexander Tweedie, John Conolly - 1845 - 788 pages
...Medical societies — Schools of medicine — Suggestions for the improvement of medical tcience. As the historian of medicine approaches nearer to his own...increase, in any degree, in proportion to our experience. Henco it follows that the accumulation of materials frequently rather retard* than promotes its progress.... | |
 | Russell Thacher Trall - 1851 - 488 pages
...and complaining that the great masses of the people have no confidence in it ! Bostock has admitted that "our actual information does not increase, in any degree, in proportion to our experience." The solution of this remarkable problem will be found as we proceed. Never was any department of human... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1864 - 766 pages
...Medical Societies — Schools of Medicine — Suggestions for the Improvement of Medical Science. As the historian of medicine approaches nearer to his own...materials frequently rather retards than promotes its progress. In other sciences, although truth is not to be attained without a certain degree of laborious... | |
 | Jefferson B. Fancher - 1867 - 508 pages
...and complaining that the great masses of the people have no confidence in it ! " Bostock has admitted that " our actual information does not increase, in any degree, in proportion to our experience." The solution of this remarkable problem will be found as we proceed. Never was any department of human... | |
 | Jefferson B. Fancher - 1868 - 404 pages
...and complaining that the great masses of the people have no confidence in it ! " Bostock has admitted that " our actual information does not increase, in any degree, in proportion to our experience." The solution of this remarkable problem will be found as we proceed. Never was any department of human... | |
 | Oliver Phelps Brown - 1870 - 464 pages
...perceive the grand results anticipated in their laborious researches after truth, do not hesitate to admit that our actual information does not increase in any degree, in proportion to our experience. All their array of learning, and their multitudinous writings, have only served to make confusion worse... | |
 | Charles Fessenden Nichols - 1879 - 56 pages
...which has so eminently rewarded the other labors of modern science? Dr. John Mason Good. — As the historian of medicine approaches nearer to his own...encumbered with almost insurmountable difficulties. In other sciences, although truth is not to be attained without a certain degree of laborious research,... | |
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As the historian of medicine approaches nearer to his own times, he finds his path encumbered with almost insurmountable difficulties. The subject on which he has to treat differs, perhaps, from every other branch of science in this circumstance, that... 
