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Excerpt from An Essay on the Connection of Mental Philosophy With Medicine
The celebrated Dr. Rush, in enumerating the causes that retarded the progress of medicine, adduces as one of the principal, the neglect of cultivating those branches of science which are most intimately connected with medi cine. These are, says he, chie?y natural history and metaphysics. The former term he used in its widest sense, comprising both the animal and vegetable king dom but by the term metaphysics, he intended to include only that field of inquiry which relates to a knowledge of the operations and faculties of the human mind.
Though the above remark of Dr. Rush was made nearly a half century since, yet it may apply, if we mistake not, with equal force and propriety to the present state of medical science. While every other branch of knowledge connected with medicine has been rapidly progressing, that styled here metaphysics, has, to a very great extent, been treated with entire neglect by a large majority of this profession. Perhaps it may be safely stated, that in no other department of human improvement has there been a greater advancement for the last fifty years, than in that of medicine. Every year has witnessed some important developement of new truths, as well as a more safe and correct application of those already discovered. Anatomy.
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