Excerpt from The Future of Medicine
Medicine is a subject slowly evolving out of a past in which facts and fancies, faiths and beliefs, and even superstitions, were strangely commingled. During the past few centuries it has been gradually shedding many of these beliefs and is daily becoming more exact in its methods, and basing its practice more on reason and less on faith. The subject however is so vast in extent, and its aspects so numerous and varied, that it is difficult to comprehend all its bearings. Advance in knowledge is taking place on such a wide front, that the question may arise whether the concentration of the forces upon one part of the field which, for the time being, is yielding some fruitful results, may divert the movement into paths that are not best suited to achieve the great purpose of medicine. It behoves us to pause, from time to time, to consider what we are doing and whither we are tending. Such a review I have undertaken and the conviction has been forced upon me that the conception of medicine dominant to-day does not direct the pursuit of it by methods best adapted to attain its chief aim.
In order that the reader may understand the conception of medicine, which is the outcome of this review, I give in the first Chapter an outline of the argument, which will be developed with some fulness in the rest of the book.
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