Medical Knowledge Comes by the Low Road

There is no short cut, nor 'royal road' to the attainment of medical knowledge. The path which we have to pursue is long, difficult, and unsafe. In our progress, we must frequently take up our abode with death and corruption, we must adopt loathsome diseases for our familiar associates, or we shall never be acquainted with their nature and dispositions ; we must risk, nay, even injure our own health, in order to be able to preserve, or restore that of others.

Notes:

John Abernethy describes how doctors must get their hands dirty and take up "abode with death and corruption" in order to attain medical knowledge.

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