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    ance with the mechanical . * * . * A single consideration U CiUfficient to illustrate the paramount importance of an acquaintance with tb ^ philosophy of mind . By far the greater number of maladies to which the human body is incident , and which come under the treatment of thephysician , have their seat in organs placed in the interior of the hpdy , fatf ft © m the reach of sense ; the detection of the very existence of such , diseases depends on the observation of signs , and the perception of iM

    exact nature of those diseases , on a comparison of these signs Witn morbid changes of structure visible in the organs after death ; that is , on mental processes , to which accurate . observation and logical deduo « tion are indispensable . It may be added , as placing in a strong- light , the necessity of mental philosophy to the medical practitioner * that ) M tlie mind acts upon the body so the body re-acts upon the mind ; and this mutual action modifies the states both of physical and mental di $ n ease in a manner which of course must be understood before the im $ nagement of such morbid conditions can be undertaken with the slightest prospect of success , while they cannot possibly be understood without all acquaintance with the physical and the psychological conditions on which sound thought and feeling depend . "— -London Review , No . vii , p . 60 .

    While we find an unanimity of opinion in the members of the profession as to what medical education should be , many of them , and those among the most distinguished for talent and ,

    judgment , express in strong terms their sense of its present jtap * ciency . They reprobate as pernicious the existing divisions , Qr grades of rank in the profession , observing , with self-evident truth , that the only just foundation for such diversities of rank is difference of education , but that the education necessaryJqe one medical man is necessary for all . Different kinds of

    practice inay require different applications of science , but $ 11 , rqu $ t be based on the same foundation of knowledge . The surgson inusjt acquire a degree of manual dexterity unnecessary , to the . physician ; but his acquaintance with internal structure must be the same . There cannot be a stronger proof of the importance of this truth than the following well-known fact contained in the evidence of Dr J . Sims ;—

    u proportion aa internal treatment ia improved by the attention of surgeons to the study of medicine , the necessity of performing operations ; ox of acquiring manual dexterity , becomes less and less . Very much fewer operations are performed at the London hospitals now than $ ora * years , ago . "—London Review , No . vii , p . 64 . . All the ; witnesses are agreed on this point It is even more difficult to conceive on what plea the difference of education

    between apothecaries and physicians can be justified . The present distinction creates a grade of practitioners less qtiali * fled ; whose services can be obtained at a cheaper rate ; whose practice , cpnseqijently , is far more extensive j whose extent of mischief is a corresponding consequent . But as th ^ writer in the ' kwdQW Review' obflervea , with : force and truth : < - ~

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 79, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/32/