Excerpt from Elements of Pathological Anatomy, Vol. 1 of 2: Illustrated by Numerous Engravings

It is certainly an anomaly in the history of our profession, that a science which admits of such extensive application as the present, and which may be regarded as constituting the very foundation of the grand edifice of medicine, should still be so much neglected as a branch of elementary study in the United States. This is so much the more surprising when we consider the successful efforts which have been made, of late years, for the diffusion of general knowl edge, and the absolute importance, in a pursuit like ours, of availing ourselves of every source of information, whether of a direct or collateral bearing. It displays a degree of apathy, to say the least, on the part of our schools, which is alike disreputable to them as seminaries of learning, disgraceful to the American profession, whose dignity and usefulness they ought to have at heart, and inju rions to the progress of medical science.

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