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Title: Old-Time Makers of Medicine
The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences
Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages
Author: James J. Walsh
Release Date: December 30, 2006 [EBook #20216]
Language: English
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Old-Time Makers of Medicine
THE STORY OF THE STUDENTS AND TEACHERS
OF THE SCIENCES RELATED TO MEDICINE
DURING THE MIDDLE AGES
BY
James J. Walsh, K.C.St.G., M.D.
Ph.D., LL.D., Litt.D., Sc.D.
DEAN AND PROFESSOR OF NERVOUS DISEASES AND OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AT
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE; PROFESSOR OF PHYSIOLOGICAL
PSYCHOLOGY AT THE CATHEDRAL COLLEGE, NEW YORK
NEW YORK
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
1911 COPYRIGHT 1911
JAMES J. WALSH
THE QUINN & GODEN CO. PRESS
RAHWAY, N.J.
TO
REVEREND DANIEL J. QUINN, S.J.
The historical material here presented was gathered for my classes at
Fordham University School of Medicine during your term as president of
the University. It seems only fitting then, that when put into more
permanent form it should appear under the patronage of your name and
tell of my cordial appreciation of more than a quarter of a century of
valued friendship.
"When we have thoroughly mastered contemporary science it is time to
turn to past science; nothing fortifies the judgment more than this
comparative study; impartiality of mind is developed thereby, the
uncertainties of any system become manifest. The authority of facts is
there confirmed, and we discover in the whole picture a philosophic
teaching which is in itself a lesson; in other words, we learn to know,
to understand, and to judge."--LITTRE: _OEuvres
d'Hippocrate_, T. I, p. 477.
"There is not a single development, even the most advanced of
contemporary medicine, which is not to be found in emb
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