Excerpt from Medical Education: The Annual Discourse Before the Philadelphia County Medical Society, Delivered December 29, 1852Many extravagant catalogues of preparatory studies have been issued by eminent physicians during the last few years, they con tain much that is not necessary, and much that can be learned far better in subsequent years, being used as instructive amusements in leisure or weariness. Poetry, the philosophy of history, meta physics, and civil polity, are not studies appropriate to this early period of life.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.