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Excerpt from An Introductory Lecture to the Course of the Institutes of Medicine, &C. In Jefferson Medical College: Delivered Nov. 8, 1843
We are accustomed, gentlemen, to hear theory placed in unworthy contrast with practice; as if theory were idle speculation; and as if mere observation of facts could make the good practitioner without reasoning or theory. I am prepared to admit, that serious evil has resulted from systems which have borne the names of theories - emana tions from the fertile minds of distinguished individuals, to whose views too much homage has been paid. The fault, however, in such cases, is, that the reasoning powers of the mass are not exerted, because it is easier for them to adopt the Opinions of one whose intellectual endow ments they have been taught to respect, than to sift the mat ter for themselves.
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