Excerpt from The Introductory Lecture to the Course of the Institutes of Medicine, in the University of Pennsylvania, for 1841-2If this were true, medicine, instead Of ranking with the no blest of sciences, would fall below the meanest Of the arts. It could not be called an art it would sink into a miserable trade, not more respected than it was formerly in Europe, and has been even within a century in Spain and Italy, when physicians and barbers occupied the same station, and pos sessed the same consideration in society.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.