LINKAGE WITH THE MODERN TIME 



speaking in 191 9, deems that a new birth of 

 medicine is taking place: " What is then the 

 new birth, this revolution in medicine? It 

 is nothing less than its enlargement from an 

 art of observation and empiricism to an applied 

 science founded upon research ; from a craft of 

 tradition and sagacity to an applied science 

 of analysis and law; from a descriptive code of 

 surface phenomena to the discovery of deeper 

 affinities; from a set of rules and axioms of 

 quality to measurements of quantity." Sursum 

 corda! — Lift up your hearts! Before us 

 spreads a fair prospect of the reconcilement 

 of theory and practice, in a final system of 

 scientific medicine! 



However this may be, we have recently real- 

 ized, as never before, the vast range and com- 

 plexity of the elements entering our mental- 

 ities; and we who may live to witness the new 

 revolution, should also be ready to recognize 

 the indirect, the obscure yet basic, influence of 

 Greek medicine. The modern medical man no 

 longer looks to Galen or Hippocrates for 

 specific instruction; but he well may make his 

 own the spirit of the Hippocratic writings and 

 the wise principles of Hippocratic practice. 

 He may still take to himself many a Hippo- 



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