Physician and patient

by Worthington Hooker

FOOTNOTES:

[45] To estimate the public benefits which the medical profession has conferred upon the world, you need only to look at the zealous, and I may say leading, agency, which it has always exercised in instituting and maintaining Hospitals, Asylums for the Insane, Institutions for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, and the Blind, and Associations for the advancement of the sciences.

[46] Hence comes the fact, that many of the most eminent men in the various departments of science have been furnished from the ranks of the medical profession.