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THE VETERINARIAN, MARCH 1, 1862. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
THE RELATION OE PRACTICAL MEDICINE TO PHILOSOPHI¬ 
CAL METHOD AND POPULAR OPINION. 
In a former number we reviewed a pamphlet under the 
above title by Dr. Russell Reynolds.* As many of the 
divisions were left by us unnoticed, and we promised to 
resume its consideration; we do so now. It might have 
been thought that much which we then extracted was 
penned by the writer in a censorious spirit, but we would 
rather consider it as an earnest contention for truth. It 
will be remembered that the object of the author was to 
show the relation occupied by medical science to general 
philosophical method on the one hand, and to popular 
opinion on the other, explaining the causes which operate 
in producing an advancement or a retrogression of the 
medical profession at the present day. 
As much advanced by him bears on our division of 
medicine, at least relatively, we have thought some degree 
of profit might result from a resumption of the subject, 
placing it under another division rather than that of a 
“ review.” 
We are somewhat inclined- to concur with the position 
laid down, although we are quite aware that many will not 
agree with us, and we know the risk we run from the long- 
maintained and acted-npon opinion to the contrary, namely, 
that the student of medicine generally devotes too much time 
to the study of anatomy, to the exclusion of other divisions 
of science. We are ready to concede that this is the foun¬ 
dation of his studies, and that it should be well and carefullv 
laid ; but if nearly all his time is to be occupied by laying 
the foundation, when will the superstructure be raised ? 
To each section should be carefully allotted a portion of his 
time, as regulated by his teachers, and then will the whole 
* Veterinarian , vol. xxxii, p. 162 . 
