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Excerpt from The Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 36: A Medical Journal Containing the Official Record of the Proceedings of the Association, and the Papers Read at the Annual Meeting, in Several Sections, Together With the Medical Literature of the Period; January-June, 1901
Specialism is a Significant feature of our times and by no means confined to medicine. Few eminent lawyers undertake to practice all phases of jurisprudence; many devote their efforts to one distinct department only. Thus we have the criminal, the patent, the real-estate, the probate, the mercantile, the corporation, and, lastly, but not of the least interest to some physicians, the col lection lawyer. Few painters have achieved world-wide fame unless by constant application to a single purpose. Rosa Bonheur and Verboeekhoven have never tired of depicting animals, the Barbizon school has revealed to us the beauties of rural life, Mezdag is known only by his marine pictures, Israel by his frugal interiors, Meissonier by his war scenes, Lenbach and Whistler by their realistic portraits, our own Innes by his inimit able landscapes. In all domains of mental energy, in commerce and the industries, we find Specialties. Who can wonder then that the phenomenal development of medicine during the past fifty years has of necessity led, not to its division into as many independent depart ments as there are different organs in the body, but comparing it to a tree - to a healthy and strong develop ment of all its branches to a degree where some of them, while still drawing their life-blood from the same old roots, and while still firmly attached to the same old trunk, have grown to imposing dimensions. Specialties in medicine are, therefore, not the arbitrary, capricious, artificial products of the respective specialists, but the legitimate result of increased medical knowledge, the inevitable and irrepressible consequence of evolution.
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