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Excerpt from Address Delivered Before the Philadelphia County Medical Society: December 13, 1854
We form but a low and grovelling estimate of our high destina tion, of the duties of our dignified vocation, if we conceive that our operations are limited to the successful application of mere physical agents. God forbid that we should thus vilify ourselves, and de grade our noble science! A physician, says Schiller, whose horizon is bounded by an historical knowledge of the human machine, and who can only distinguish terminologically and locally the coarser wheels of this piece of intellectual clockwork, may be, perhaps, idolized by the mob, but he will never raise the Hippocratic art above the narrow sphere of a mere bread-earning craft.
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