XIV 



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 applied, 

 in a narrower sense, to one of the chief divisions 

 of the totality of medical science. 



Taken in this broad sense, "medicine" not merely 

 denotes a kind of knowledge, but it comprehends 

 the various applications of that knowledge to the 

 alleviation of the sufferings, the repair of the 

 injuries, and the conservation of the health, of 



