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Excerpt from Memorials of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 1599-1850: With a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Glasgow Medical School and of the Medical Profession in the West of Scotland
The writer of even the local memorials of such a calling as that of the healing art is at some disadvantage should he happen not to be a member of it. On some matters his point of view is apt to be a little different from that of the man specially initiated into the mysteries of the craft. In the preparation of these pages the sense of this disadvantage has often been felt by the writer, even although he has been closely connected with the Faculty in Glasgow for over thirty years. His only apology indeed for putting his hand to the work at all is that it seemed a thing sooner or later to be done, and he saw no likelihood of the task being undertaken by any of the present Fellows. In their relation to such an undertaking the members of the medical profession generally may be placed in two categories - those who have much professional work to do, and those who have little. The former have rarely adequate time to devote to work of the kind; the latter, who are often juniors, have seldom much taste for it. A considerable part of this memoir was written about twenty years ago, and a few words may be necessary to explain the circumstances under which its preparation was undertaken, and why it only now sees the light, at a time when many of those who interested themselves in its inception have passed away. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
