XIY 



THE CONNECTION OF THE BIOLOGICAL 

 SCIENCES WITH MEDICINE 



[1881] 



The great body of theoretical and practical 

 knowledge which has been accumulated by the 

 labours of some eighty generations, since the dawn 

 of scientific thought in Europe, has no collective 

 English name to which an objection may not be 

 raised; and I use the term " medicine " as that 

 which is least likely to be misunderstood; though, 

 as every one knows, the name is commonly ap- 

 "olied, in a narrower sense, to one of the cliief di- 

 visions of the totality of medical science. 



Taken in this broad sense, " medicine " not 

 merely denotes a kind of knowledge, but it com- 

 prehends the various applications of that knowl- 

 edge to the alleviation of the sufferings, the repair 



of the injuries; and the conservation of the health, 



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