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But to the able, energetic and ambitious student the plan, imperfect as it was as an educational discipline, admitted of a choice of subject and disposition of effort not contemplated in the system. And thus we find Welch in the early period of his medical studies enticed away from the lecture halls into the more alluring atmosphere of the dissecting room and very soon serving as prosector to the professors of anatomy. With the curriculum as indicated, it is Obvious that no opportunity existed to acquire thorough training in any subject, aside possibly from the grosser aspects of human anatomy. The provision for pathology was extremely meagre. Although a chair of physiology and pathology, filled by Alonzo Clark, had been created in 1847, in the early seventies of the last century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
