2. THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE VERSUS 

 THE HISTORY OF ART* 



IN REMEMBRANCE OF FIELDING H. GARRISON 



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I appreciate the honor of having been invited to deliver this lec- 

 ture, and I welcome the opportunity of paying homage to the 

 memory of an old friend, who was a distinguished historian and 

 did perhaps more than anybody else to promote the cultivation of 

 the history of medicine in our country. There is no medical or 

 reference library, however small, without a copy of one of the edi- 

 tions of his Introduction to the History of 'Medicine, and many 

 American doctors have derived their knowledge of the subject al- 

 most exclusively from it. They were fortunate in having such a 

 good source of information, for Garrison's Introduction is, all 

 considered, the best one-volume account of the medical past, espe- 

 cially the more recent past which concerns more immediately our 

 contemporaries. 



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The subject of my lecture was selected on two grounds. Firstly, 

 it enabled me to reassess the views formulated in the essay intro- 

 ducing 7s is t (1912); and secondly, it was a means of showing 

 the humanity of Garrison's history. In spite of the lack of space 

 (for the evocation of the whole medical past in less than a thou- 

 sand pages is somewhat of an adventure) , Garrison always man- 



* The Fielding H. Garrison Lecture, read at the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Association of the History of Medicine, May 1941. 



+ An international journal devoted to the history of science, the official quarterly organ of the 

 History of Science Society. 



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