MEDICAL SCIENCE. 



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slate of things. He says, in one of his books, "The outside public bclii-\. ; 

 it impossible for a man to be proficient both in medicine and surgery. But 

 a good physician must know something of surgery, and a good surgeon cannot 

 afford to be ignorant of medicine ; it is, therefore, necessary for a medical 

 man to have some knowledge of both these sciences." Under the influence of 



Fig. 105. Doctor Death. Miniature from a " Book of Hours " of the Sixteenth Century. In the 

 Library of M. Ambroise Firmin-Didot, Paris. 



t lirsi> sensible ideas, surgical science rose in the Paris Faculty to the level of the 

 highest literary teaching, and was as well taught as in the best medical schools 

 of Italy and Spain, to which French parents no longer thought it necessary to 

 send their children. The Faculty of Paris was considered to be equal to all 

 requirements, and it was only a few young surgeons who came for some 



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