A Descriptive and Tabular Report of the Medical and Surgical Cases Treated in the Kent and Canterbury Hospital, From October 16, 1840, to June 1, ... Illustrated by Tables of Expenditure &C. - Hardcover
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Excerpt from A Descriptive and Tabular Report of the Medical and Surgical Cases Treated in the Kent and Canterbury Hospital, From October 16, 1840, to June 1, 1842: With Remarks Upon Its Present Condition and Future Prospects, Illustrated by Tables of Expenditure &C. And Preceded by an Essay on the Origin and Progress of Hospitals, for the Sick, From the Earliest Times
There can be little doubt that the art of healing was both known and practised, in some degree, and in some way or other, at the remotest periods Of this world's history: whilst the fact that the ancient Greeks not only worshipped its presumed founder with divine honors, but even traced his descent directly from the Gods, proves that, whatever might have been the real amount Of knowledge in those times, the exercise Of it was very highly appreciated. It is certain, however, that it did not exist at first, as an art by itself, nor was the practice of it confined to any specially qualified persons; it was associated with, if not entirely dependant upon, the various religious Observances of the Heathen Mythology: priests, and other inspired persons, who were supposed to have direct communication with the various deities, being the only dispensers of it not, however, because they possessed any peculiar acquaintance with the arcana of Medicine, but because they were looked upon as the visible agents of the invisible powers, through whose hands all the gifts of the Gods were distributed to men.
Proofs, however, are by no means wanting to shew, that among the highly civilized Greeks, whose acquaintance with the collateral sciences was so profound, the practice of Surgery, at least, did not long continue to be limited to the mere exercise Of religious rites, or an appeal to the deity by sacrifices and propitiations; but that actual mechanical4 essay ON the establishment OF hospitals, &c.
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