494 State Board of Agricui.ture, &c. 



educated equally witli their heads. Without this manual 

 education, which ^^ives us not only the tactus eruditus — the 

 " educated touch," upon which such stress is laid by all suc- 

 cessful medical educators, but the educated muscle as well, 

 no physician can possibly succeed in the practice of his pro- 

 fession. He has to learn the science of chemistry and apply 

 it to practice in the compounding of medicines, the exami- 

 nation of the excretions and secretions of his patients, and 

 in the cure of cases of poisoning, and their detection when 

 the consequence of criminal acts. He has to learn the sci- 

 ence of botany, and apply it in the selection and study of 

 medicinal plants, and, not unfrequently, in their culture. 

 He must, of course, study the science of zoology — the sci- 

 ence of animated life, not only as exhibited in men, but in 

 beasts, both in health and disease. He has to cultivate his 

 observing faculties^ — his perceptive faculties — in this science 

 to a high degree, in order to reach any success in his busi- 

 ness. He must cultivate these faculties so that in multitudes 

 of instances he can tell what is the matter with a sick man, 

 or a sick beast, the moment his eye lights upon him, by the 

 wa}^ he stands, walks, or lies, by the contour of the muscles, 

 or the expression of the features. 



He must be thoroughly conversant with scientific and 

 practical mechanics, since he has to do with the most perfect 

 and wonderful of machines, the human body, and is obliged 

 to know, (and be ready with the knowledge at a moment's 

 notice,) upon mechanical principles, what must be the nature 

 of an injury to a fractured or dislocated bone, and what me- 

 chanical principles and instruments must be applied to rem- 

 edy the evil. 



